The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says it will disburse $1.7 million to support farmers affected by floods in nine states of the country before end of 2022. The intervention according to the organisation is to ameliorate flood impact on farmers and enable them to go into dry season farming, so as to enhance their income, boost production and ensure food security. Dede Ekoue, IFAD Country Director said this on the sideline of the Federal Government/IFAD-Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) Mid Term Review (MTR) Mission Stakeholders Wrap-Up Workshop in Abuja. Ekoue who identified total flood recovery response for 2022…
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The date for the commencement of the pilgrimage will soon be fixed The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev Dr Yakubu Pam has said that pilgrimage to Jerusalem would soon commence, even as he charged the management and staff of the Commission to be committed to their duties. He gave the charge on 9th December, 2022 during a strategic meeting with all the management and staff of the Commission held at the Commission’s Chapel, NCPC Corporate headquarters, Abuja. In his exhortation taken from Luke’s Gospel, chapter 8 verses 22 to 25, where Jesus asked his disciples to…
The Ikoyi Passport Office of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Lagos state has issued no less than 60 per cent of the total passports in the country. Mr Olugbenga Ayegbusi, the Passport Control Officer (PCO) in charge of the office and also a Deputy Comptroller of Immigration (DCI), disclosed this in an interview on Sunday in Lagos. He said that the office had to embark on extra work hours to meet the huge requests from passport applicants and surmount other challenges. Ayegbusi said that in order to meet the demand, the personnel in the production unit were restored for both day and night…
Presidency has dismissed as fake and untrue that the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, could not account for about N89.1 trillion the CBN collected as Stamp Duty charges. A member of the House of Representatives from Jigawa, Gudaji Kazaure, in a viral video, had allegedly accused the CBN governor of attempts to cover-up facts surrounding the collection of the controversial amount. He also alleged that he was deliberately being denied access to present a preliminary report of a committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the alleged stamp duty funds being withheld…
Sen. Bola Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) has promised Nigerians unprecedented turnaround in the nation’s socioeconomic and political areas from his government, if elected. Tinubu made the promise on Sunday in Ibadan at a Town Hall Meeting with Muslim Leaders drawn from the six states in the South-west zone. Tinubu, a former Governor of Lagos State, was accompanied by some prominent APC leaders and candidates in the state. Tinubu said he was a candidate of all ethnic and religious groups, adding that his administration would unite the country. The presidential candidate said that, if elected, his…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised Nigerians to be wary of the fake campaign promises of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for 2023 general election. Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director of Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council (APC) said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. “We need to warn Nigerians to be wary of the sugar-coated promises of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and his PDP as they embark on their inordinate and desperate campaign to gain power at all cost. “A party that should be eternally shameful about…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has advised people who have registered for their permanent voter cards (PVCs) to collect them, saying, “No PVC, no vote.” INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Katsina state, Prof. Ibrahim Yahaya-Makarfi, made the call in an interview in Katsina on Sunday. According to him, the commission will not allow anyone to vote during the 2023 general elections without presenting his/her PVCs at polling centres. He said that INEC suspended the continuous voter registration on July 31 because it was a process of recording and compiling the required details of the electorate. Yahaya-Makarfi said that the…
President Muhammadu Buhari, in the course of the week, directed the conferment of Excellence Service Award on Executive Vice Chairman of National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof. Mohammad Sani Haruna. The NASENI boss will also be conferred with a National Honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic for his exemplary leadership, dynamism and foresight in advancing the cause of the agency. The Nigerian leader announced this when he inaugurated the Technology and Innovation Complex of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI). The Technology and Innovation complex has been named after the…
Mr Femi Adesina, Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, said the president would continue with the mandates of serving Nigeria and implementing policies for the betterment of the nation until May 29, 2023. Adesina stated this at the sideline of the 2022 Campus Journalism Awards organised by Youths Digest in Abuja. He said: “The mandate is for four years and those four years do not lapse until May 29, till the very last day, governance will continue. The president will continue to serve Nigeria.” He also advised journalists, especially young students, to adhere to the ethics…
Poland will block European Union proposals to ensure that the rights of same-sex parents and their children are legally recognised in all of the bloc’s member states, says a deputy justice minister. On Wednesday, the European Commission adopted a proposal to harmonise rules on recognising parenthood across the EU. Currently, certain parental rights derive from national laws, rather than being standardised across the bloc. While in many member states, same-sex couples have the right to be recognised as the parents of a child, that is not the case in Poland, which has been ranked as the EU’s worst country for…