The Director-General, National Senior Citizen Centre, Dr Emem Omokaro, says the centre will inaugurate social safety net for older persons to further enhance their livelihoods in the country. Omokaro made this known at a news conference on Friday in Abuja as part of activities marking this year’s independence anniversary and the International Day for Older Persons by the centre. She noted that there were 70 older persons in each and every state of the federation benefiting from the grants for poor and vulnerable households under the National Social Investment Programme. According to her, the NSCC Stakeholders Consultative Forum facilitated the…
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The Ilorin Emirate Medical Doctors Group (IEMDG) has treated more than 1,000 patients in the last one year free of charge. It also gave free drugs to beneficiaries, its vice-president, Dr Abdulkadir Ahmed, told newsmen in Ilorin on Saturday. He spoke on the side-lines of the group’s 2022 Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference. Ahmed said the group also treated about 500 patients for free as part of its community outreach at Balogun Gambari community in Ilorin. Ahmed said the group conducted career counseling in schools during the period. He noted that economic hardships had impacted negatively on the ability…
Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that the programmes and strategies initiated by government have been very effective in breaking the culture of silence by victims of Sexual and Domestic Based Violence. Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by his wife, Mrs Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, said this during the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency Governor’s Commendation and Awards Ceremony held at Ikeja on Friday night. He said that the culture of victims being silent had made the heinous crime of domestic and sexual violence to continue to be perpetrated with impunity. According to him, from its inception, the Lagos State…
World search giant, Google is celebrating with Nigeria’s annual Independence Day with a doodle on its page. The search engine giant, Google on Saturday, celebrated Nigeria’s 62nd Independence Day anniversary on its website with a special doodle depicting the national colours of Green and White Today’s annual Independence Day doodle features Nigeria’s flag waving against a bright blue sky. Google doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists. According to Google, “On this day in 1960, the most populous…
Katsina state government has supported 3,010 farmers on various interventions under the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economy Stimulus, NG-CARES programme. The Coordinator of the FADAMA CARES Component of the programme, Mas’ud Banye disclosed this on Friday in Katsina after inspecting some farms under the programme to assess the level of implementation. Banye said the support, provided by the World Bank as loan through the Federal Government, and distributed free to the farmers by the Katsina Government, was targeting 22,000 farmers in the state. According to him, the programme provides assistance to poor and vulnerable persons to enable them to…
PwC Nigeria, a leading professional services firm, has trained over 80 journalists across traditional and new media platforms to enhance their capacities and abilities to execute their duties effectively. According to a statement on Saturday in Lagos, the journalists were engaged at the PwC Nigeria annual Capability Enhancement Workshop that held virtually. Mr Taiwo Oyedele, Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader, PwC, said the workshop featured insightful presentations on various topics by subject matter specialists with the aim of building the capacity of journalists. This, Oyedele explained, would position the media practitioners to take advantage of future opportunities. He…
The coach of Nigeria’s under-19 men’s cricket team, Daniel Gim says his team will be unrelenting during the ongoing International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup Africa Division 2 Qualifiers in Abuja. Gim said on Saturday they would continue with the same momentum of their opening match to win all their other games in the competition. Nigeria’s opening match in the qualifiers at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium on Friday saw them beat Rwanda by 10 wickets. “The target of the team was to win the first game, and I am so happy with the victory. What we needed was a good start to set…
Two persons were confirmed dead while four others sustained injuries in an accident involving a Nissan Cabster and a Mack truck at Iyana Egbado, Itori on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway on Saturday. Mr Ahmed Umar, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta. Umar noted that the crash occurred at 6am and it involved a Cabster marked KTU 142 XH and a truck with registration number T-12736 LA. The sector commander explained that the Nissan vehicle rammed into the stationary truck which had a flat tyre. He added that a total of…
The Labour Party Support Movement (LPSM) said on Saturday in Abuja that it would use its vast network to mobilise voters towards Peter Obi’s success in the 2023 presidential election. Inaugurating the group, Mr Chuks Ezurike, its Director- General, expressed the commitment of the group to bringing the Labour Party to higher political prominence. Tijani Abubakar, the National Secretary of the movement described Obi as a man of integrity in the management of fiscal and human resources. Abubakar, who advocated increased national support for Obi, said Obi has the capacity to rescue Nigeria from its economic and security challenges. “Obi…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Executive Board has approved a new emergency financing instrument for countries suffering from acute food insecurity. Ms Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director, IMF announced this in a statement on its website in Abuja on Saturday. “I am very pleased to announce that the IMF’s Executive Board today approved a new Food Shock Window under our emergency financing instruments, the Rapid Credit Facility and Rapid Financing Instrument. ”The new financing window will provide additional access to emergency financing to countries that have urgent balance of payments needs and are suffering from acute food insecurity, a sharp…