Nine hundred youths and women in Edo are benefitting from a phased funded agribusiness programme known as the Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprise in the Niger Delta (LIFE-ND). The Project Coordinator, LIFE-ND in Edo, Mr Jude Ekpu, disclosed this at a one-day orientation, organised for the beneficiaries on Thursday in Benin. The LIFE-ND project in Edo is being funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Federal and Edo governments. Ekpu stated that the project, which started in 2020, had so far empowered 1,150 youths and women in the state in the first phase of the project. He said that…
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The federal government has charged critical stakeholders to re-double efforts towards ending open defecation by the year 2025. The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, gave the charge on Thursday in Ibadan, during the inauguration of the Oyo State Open Defecation Free Roadmap and Declaration of State of Emergency on Water Sanitation and Hygiene. The minister, who was represented at the occasion by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mrs Esther Walson-Jack, said that efforts and commitment of the stakeholders would make SDGs 6 on water and sanitation achievable. Adamu said the inauguration of the road map to end open defection by the Oyo State…
The Nigerian bourse on Thursday closed further with a loss, as market capitalisation shed N281.2 billion to close at N26.78 trillion from N27.06 trillion posted on Wednesday. Similarly, the All-Share Index (ASI) dropped by 1.04 per cent to close at 49, 667.14 points from 50,188.55 points recorded on Wednesday. The downturn was due to extended selloffs in Tier-1 banks such as Zenith Bank and Stanbic Bank. Consequently, the year-to-date (YTD) return fell to 16.27 per cent. Overall, market breadth closed negative as 28 stocks declined while 10 others appreciated. Upcredit recorded the highest price gain of 9.23 per cent to close at N3.55 per…
President Muhammadu Buhari says the degenerated welfare and working conditions of the nation’s judiciary are serious and will be treated as such. He said this would be done despite the dire state of the country’s economy “currently battling insecurity, corruption and economic challenges,” aggravated by the COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. Buhari stated this when he hosted the chairman and representatives of the Body of Benchers, a body of legal practitioners of “the highest distinction in the legal profession” in the State House, Abuja, on Thursday. According to the president, a democratic government like the one he leads, “standing…
President Muhammadu Buhari has again expressed serious concern over the current security challenges facing some parts of the country and will stop at nothing to change the tide. The National Security Adviser to the President, retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, said the president made his feelings known when he summoned emergency meeting of the National Security Council on Thursday in Abuja. According to him, the meeting deliberated on recent security challenges bedeviling the country and made resolutions to review existing strategies in fighting the scourge. ‘`Today’s meeting was convened by the President as a continuation of the meeting that took place…
An International NGO, Sightsavers Nigeria, has bemoaned poor access to eye treatment in rural area, in spite of Nigeria having the highest number of opthalmologists in Africa. Its Country Director, Dr Sunday Isiyaku made this known on the sideline of media training on disability inclusion in Abuja. Isiyaku, while stressing the need to improve access to health care services in the rural areas and for People with Disabilities (PWDs), urged the media to highlights their challenges to attract action towards resolving them. “Nigeria is a very fortunate country. In Africa, we are the country that has the highest number of…
The General Assembly of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Thursday, validated the election of Archbishop Daniel Okoh as its new President, bringing an end to the tenure of Dr. Samson Supo Ayokunle. The General Superintendent of Christ Holy Church International Onitsha, Okoh who emerged as new CAN president after the 259 delegates unanimously voted got him during the 12th General Assembly, will serve a single term of five years. Accepting his election in a speech, Okoh charged President Muhammadu Buhari to bring an end to the rising insecurity in the country. “While thanking the President and the Commander-in-Chief…
Society of Digital Newspapers Owners of Nigeria (SDNON) has joined the family, friends and well-wishers to felicitate with its grand patron and Group Chairman of Polak Nigeria Limited, Mr Pius Olarewaju on the occasion of his 63rd birthday anniversary. A statement by its General Secretary, Seunmanuel Faleye, the Society described the Executive Director of CSF Financial Services and Verdic Life Care Hospital, as a great giver, a businessman with integrity, and devoted Christian, that is highly filled with the fear of God. “The entire management team and Executive of Society of Digital Newspapers Owners of Nigeria, SDNON, wishes to use…
The Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) says it will rehabilitate and expand the New Bussa Water Works with N900 million towards ease access to potable water in the area. The Managing Director, Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa disclosed this in a statement by the Public Affairs Officer of the Commission, Nura Tanko Wakil on Thursday. Yelwa, who led a team of professionals from the commission along with the Ministry of Water Resources officials to the New Bussa waterworks site for inspection, explained that the project would address the growing challenge of acute water shortage in New Bussa and it’s environs. “We…
The Nigerian Navy says it has handed over to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), 70 out of 147 vessels arrested over illegal oil bunkering and crude oil theft. Rear Admiral Emmanuel Ogala, Director of Lesson Learnt, said this at the resumed investigative hearing of the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on fuel subsidy probe on Thursday, in Abuja. The subsidy regime probe is from 2017 to 2021. He said the Nigerian Navy did not have the power to prosecute arrested vessels, adding that arrested vessels and person’s were usually handed over to security agencies and in most…