The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the national security implications of the current status of Cryptocurrency, blockchain, and other digital asset transactions.
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ASHENEWS reports that the Zamfara State government has constituted the state health sector reform committee in a bid to revive the state’s health sector.
Kebbi State Government is set to launch a special Ramadan feeding program, with plans to distribute free food items to the people of the state. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Shehu Mu’azu, said during the weekly ministerial press briefing in Birnin Kebbi, said the programme is to reflect on the spirit of compassion and benevolence embraced by Governor Nasiru Idris. Mr. Mu’azu emphasized the significance of this gesture within the framework of the incumbent administration’s welfare policy. ALSO READ Ramadan: Sultan urges Muslims to look out for Sha’aban crescent Furthermore, he revealed the government’s commitment to supporting farmers engaged…
The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), says there is need to address the gender and vulnerability biases that still persist in the profession.
ASHENEWS reports that operatives of the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, arrested 21 trucks loaded with food and non-food items heading towards N’djamena, Chad Republic, Central African Republic and Cameroon.
ASHENEWS reports that the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Minna branch has advised the Niger state government to prioritise sustainable waste management systems as it revamps the state’s infrastructural architecture.
ASHENEWS reports that the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Minna Branch has donated food items and toiletries to inmates at the Minna Medium Correctional Center, the Home for the Less Privileged in Minna as well as the Government Orphanage in the state capital.
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, says the fact that Nigeria accepted grains from Ukraine does not make Nigeria a weak or failed state. “Egypt gets about 60 percent of its grains from Ukraine. The fact that Egypt gets about 60 percent of its grains from Ukraine does not make it a failed state. “The fact that we are having challenges at the moment does not make Nigeria a failed state. “Therefore, accepting grains from Ukraine does not make Nigeria or Egypt a failed country. “It is a normal thing because countries exist to depend on one another,’’…
Yaseer Alhassan is a 35-year-old electrician in Sokoto. He started his apprenticeship in 2003 when he was 14. He travels across West Africa for car programming. Until now he enrolled to study electrical engineering at the Umaru Shinkafi Polytechnic Sokoto, he is a secondary school certificate holder. Determined to excel in the job, he has had to switch between electrical and mechanical apprenticeship and has grown to become a sought-after electrician who fixes electrical faults in auto gearboxes of all sorts of automobiles. Alhassan’s clients cut across some West African countries to which he is invited to fix auto gearboxes…
Negligence and lack of regular health checks contribute to the high cases of sudden deaths in the country, says Mrs Adaku Ego, a health official. Ego, who works at the Non-Communicable Diseases Unit, Public Health Department, Anambra State Ministry of Health, made the assertion on Tuesday in Awka during a free blood pressure screening tagged – ‘Know Your Numbers’ Campaign. The campaign is in collaboration with the Nigerian Cardiac Society and the Population Services International. She said that the causes of sudden deaths could include complications of hypertension, heart attack, stroke, and heart failure among others. According to her, people…