An NGO, BAOBAB for Women’s Rights, on Thursday advised the electorate to shun vote buying and selling in the upcoming general elections.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja, inaugurated the High-level Advisory Council (HLAC) to scale-up education and economic empowerment of women and girls in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of the validity of old N200 note from the hitherto February 10 deadline to April 10, 2023.
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), the African Law Foundation (AfriLaw), has asked the Federal Government to allow private security outfits to participate in election monitoring.
The Northern Elders Forum(NEF) has pledged to remain patriotic Nigerians, who will participate in ensuring the development of the country.
The United States Government has advised Nigerians to avoid inciting statements that could trigger violence, voter’s suppression or intimidation and thereby mar the electoral process.
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has admitted Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, a Nollywood actress to N5 million bail for spraying the newly designed Naira notes during an event.
A few years ago, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) rated eighty-six countries as low-income and food-deficient nations, thus, considered to be food insecure (http://www.fao.org/docrep/w9290e/w9290e01.htm). Forty-three out of these food-deficient countries are located in the African continent, which has a total of 58 countries. The most affected among the forty-three countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where chronic hunger, squalor, and abject poverty are widespread. This is despite overall gains recorded in food production and food security over a decade on a global scale.
At least 50,000 members of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star from all over the world are expected to arrive at 34 Ambo street world headquarters in Calabar in April 2023 for a mega spiritual celebration tagged ‘Divine Numbering of the Elects.’
The Nigerian government said it had started the process of declaring 111 historical sites in the country as National Monuments.