A lecturer in Economics Department of Usmanu Danfodio University Sokoto (UDUS), Dr Bashir Achida, says closing the gender gaps in empowerment opportunities will increase Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 20 percent. Achida stated this at a lecture organised by the Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA), as part of activities to mark the 2024 International Women’s Day, in Sokoto on Saturday. He encouraged women to explore their potentialities and become relevant entrepreneurs and employers of labour, adding that such could be achieved by taking advantage of business opportunities in the country. He stressed the need for stakeholders to ensure…
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ASHENEWS reports that the Niger state governor, Mohammed Bago says that the government will establish feeding centers across all the 25 local government areas of the state to feed Muslims in the month of Ramadan.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported that the National Average Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) per adult per day stood at N858 in January 2024. This information was disclosed in the NBS’s CoHD report for January 2024, released in Abuja over the weekend. According to the NBS, the CoHD represents the most cost-effective combination of locally available items that align with globally consistent food-based dietary guidelines. It serves as a metric for assessing both the physical and economic accessibility of nutritious diets. The NBS explained that factors such as Retail Food Prices, Food Composition Data, and Healthy…
The Minister of State for Health, Dr Tunji Alausa, who disclosed this on Saturday in Abeokuta said that health workers going abroad to seek for greener pastures must “henceforth resign their appointment before embarking on such journeys”.
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has implored Nigerians to be patient with President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Shettima appealed on Saturday in Kafur, Katsina State at the inauguration of an empowerment scheme sponsored by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Political Matters, Ibrahim Masari. The Vice-President emphasised that leadership was about the show of empathy and support for the people. He said the President has the interest of Nigerians at heart as well as beautiful plans to improve their living condition. “The President is quite thrilled by the show of support and empathy by Hon Ibrahim Kabiru Masari. “Leadership is all about…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says it is facing numerous challenges in addressing epidemic-prone diseases in the country. The Director General, Dr Jide Idris, highlighted inadequate funding and substandard healthcare infrastructure as part of the challenges at the state level during a news conference on Saturday in Abuja. The NCDC boss said that the challenges led to difficulties in treatment, delayed reporting of cases, limited public awareness, and outbreaks in areas with compromised security. To tackle the obstacles, he advocated increased investment in public health initiatives and focused on strengthening partnerships, collaborating closely with security agencies,…
Police in Lagos State have arrested a mother for attempting to kill her sick child, using a poisonous insecticide, “Sniper.”
Members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan on Saturday suspended the strike they began on Wednesday.
The Lagos State Government says it will set up an In-vitro Fertilisation (IVF) Assisted Reproductive Therapy Programme and Endometriosis Centre at the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital.
Long before now, in 2009, a shipment of counterfeited anti-malarial drugs was intercepted in Lagos. A Nigerian businessman had colluded with a Chinese drug exporter who outsourced the job to an employee of a Chinese drug manufacturing company. The drug ring included a team of packaging experts, as well as another man with the assignment of shipping the drugs into Nigeria from China. In some instances, drugs are made up chalks which unsuspecting consumers swallow as drugs.