President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday said the decision to remove petroleum subsidy was a challenging one, but a necessary step to secure long term energy security and foster economic growth for the country. The president said this while officially opening the 7th edition of the Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES 2024) at the State Banquet Hall, Aso Villa, Abuja. The summit has as its theme, “Navigating the New Energy World Order: Security, Transition, and Finance.” Tinubu said to mitigate short-term effects of petroleum subsidy removal on the vulnerable population, his administration was committed to implementing social intervention programmes. Tinubu, represented…
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In a recent report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in Abuja on Tuesday, it has been revealed that various essential food items experienced a notable surge in prices during January 2024. The report highlighted significant increases in the prices of beef, rice, beans, onions, tomatoes, and other food commodities compared to the same period last year. According to the NBS’s Selected Food Prices Watch report for January 2024, the average price of boneless beef skyrocketed by 37.08 percent, reaching N3,315.78 per kilogram, compared to N2,418.91 recorded in January 2023. On a month-on-month basis, the price of boneless…
An environmental health expert, Mrs Veronica Augustine, has called on Nigerians to adopt safely managed sanitation practices to reduce health risks associated with poor hygiene. ASHENEWS reports that environmental hygiene refers to maintaining and promoting cleanliness and health in the surroundings where people live and work. It involves various measures and actions to prevent the spread of diseases, minimize health risks, and create a safe and healthy environment. Augustine said in Abuja on Tuesday that poor hygiene practices posed health risks affecting both individuals and communities. She highlighted the crucial components of safely managed hygiene, including ending open defecation, improved sanitation…
The Kaduna State Government on Monday tasked pregnant women in the state to always demand for free Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation (MMS), during their antenatal care sessions. The MMS is an approach to improve the quality of nutrition care for mothers and prevent low birth weight. The Nutrition Focal Person of Kaduna North Local Government Area, Furera Aliyu, made the call at a town hall meeting on the reduction of anaemia using MMS. The meeting was organised by an NGO, Civil Society-Scaling up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN). Aliyu stated that it was important that women take the supplement as prescribed for…
The Federal Government has announced plans to implement a nationwide derivatization framework aimed at combating the persistent recurrence of Lassa fever in states affected by annual outbreaks. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Salako, revealed the government’s strategy to address the outbreak of Acute Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF), suspected to be Lassa Fever, at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna. The briefing is tagged “Health Pillar Towards Mitigation, Prevention, and Control of Lassa Fever in Nigeria”. Sadako said the ministry in response to the outbreak, had constituted a…
Tabitha Cumi Foundation (TCF) says 2,100 girls and boys between ages 15 and 25 from Lagos, Ebonyi, and Benue States are engaged in Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) prevention, response, and referral pathway. Its Executive Director of the Foundation, Mrs Tayo Erinle, stated this on Monday at the close out of the first phase of the one-year Scale ENGAGE-Her Project in Abuja. Erinle said the project was implemented under the Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) Nigeria funded by USAID and implemented by Palladium and the Tabitha Cumi Foundation. “We have worked with 2,100 beneficiaries not just girls but…
The Federal Government has described Sugar- Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) tax as most effective way of reducing excessive consumption of SSBs and incidences of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) The Director, Public Heath Department, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Chukuma Anyaike, said this in Abuja on Monday at the Public Presentation of the Simulation Study of the Potential Fiscal and Public Health Effects of SSB tax in Nigeria Anyaike defines Sugar-Sweetened Beverages as drinks that contain natural or added sweeteners which include various forms of sugars such as brown sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn…
The Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX) witnessed a decline in market capitalisation on Monday, dropping by N51 billion. The market capitalisation opened at N55.861 trillion and closed at N55.810 trillion, marking a 0.09 per cent decrease. Similarly, the All-Share Index dropped by 0.09 per cent or 93 points, closing at 101,995.53 compared to 102,088.30 recorded on Friday. Consequently, the Year-To-Date (YTD) return fell to 36.41 per cent. This downward trend was attributed to selloffs in some stocks of Tier-one banks such as FBN Holdings, United Bank for Africa (UBA), Zenith Bank, and Dangote Cement. The total volume of shares traded amounted…
The Read and Earn Federation for UNESCO (UNESCO REF) has sought a strategic partnership with the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) towards the attainment of UN global goals. The President, UNESCO REF, Abdulsalami Ladigbolu announced this during a visit to the National Chairman of ACPN, Adewale Oladigbolu, in Abuja on Monday. Ladigbolu said that the partnership was under the UNESCO REF Strategic Intervention Programme-ALPHA (SIP-ALPHA). According to him, this will provide knowledge exchange, advocacy and sensitisation of communities on the need to be part of the global community towards actualisation of united action’s goals. “The purpose of this…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 51 suspected illegal miners and three telecommunication mast vandals in the territory. The NSCDC FCT Commandant, Olusola Odumosu, said this while briefing newsmen of the arrest on Monday at the command’s headquarters. Odumosu said that the three suspected vandals were apprehended by the command’s intelligence and undercover operatives following a security tip-off of the dismantling activity at Giri area of the FCT. According to him, before the decommissioning of a mast, approval must be obtained from the NSCDC, being the lead agency in…