[ad_1] Transport Kenyans rush to book SGR tickets ahead of Easter Wednesday March 29 2023 Passengers board the train at the Nairobi Terminus. FILE PHOTO | NMG The standard gauge railway (SGR) passenger service from Nairobi to Mombasa is fully booked ahead of Good Friday, forcing holidaymakers to seek expensive alternatives like road and air…
By Kazeem Akolawole The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has admonished packaged and sachet water producers across the country to always adhere to Good Manufacturing Practices GMP as enunciated by the Agency to safeguard the wellbeing of the consumer. The admonition was given by Director…
By Gom Mirian The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund) has charged Nigerian polytechnics to embark on quality research proposals that would proffer solutions to Nigeria’s problems. Arc. Sonny Echono, the Executive Secretary of TETFund said this in Abuja, at a meeting with Rectors and Directors of Research of Polytechnics on National Research Fund…
[ad_1] State health workers will remain cash-strapped as the government battles to rein in its massive public sector wage bill If unions accept the government’s latest pay deal, nurses, cleaners and porters at state hospitals will have less money to take home than last year — as was the case for the 2022 and 2020…
[ad_1] Some commercial bus drivers plying the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on Wednesday embarked on a protest over alleged extortion by touts, known as ‘Agbero’, at the Toll-Gate area of the express. Some of the commuters, who were left stranded by the drivers, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota that the protest was unfortunate…
By Juliet Jacob The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has assured Kwara residents that he would remain just as responsive and empathetic to the yearnings of the citizens as he has always been. He made the promise on Tuesday after he received his certificate of return, following his victory at the March 18 governorship polls….
By Kazeem Akolawole The Federal Government has engaged the self-care Network implementation partners in collaboration with other stakeholders in a 3-day stakeholder hybrid meeting with the goal of building up the coordination of Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health for self-care and developing the self-Care Monitoring and Evaluation framework. The engagement meeting included the Federal Ministry…
[ad_1] The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested a 27-year-old man of Railway Ijora Badia, for allegedly defiling a nine-month-old baby. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Wednesday. Hundeyin said that the case was reported to the Police on…
[ad_1] By Ijeoma UKAZU By 2040, the United Nations, UN, estimates that globally, one in four children will be living in areas of extremely high water stress. With the current climate scenario, it is predicted that water scarcity will displace between 24 million and 700 million people, by 2030. In Nigeria, the UN also states…
[ad_1] Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has advised African countries to quit lamenting the brain drain in the continent and take advantage of their citizens in the diaspora. Osinbajo spoke on Monday while delivering a public lecture on ‘How Africa Can Prosper in an Increasingly Complex World’ at King’s College, London. The vice-president noted that while brain…
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