[ad_1] A new report by the Project Management Institute (PMI) has decried the declining talent gap in Sub-Sahara Africa, saying 2.3m people would be needed annually to fill the gap. Worst hit, it noted, are project management-oriented positions, saying the 2.3m people would fill the positions expected to be open by 2030. PMI, the world’s…
[ad_1] More than a year after Nigeria secured a spot on the first list of six African countries to receive the mRNA vaccine technology to build an independent vaccine production system, Africa’s largest economy has yet to unveil strategies to set the process in motion, particularly funding. The transfer of the technology, which birthed the…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 09:13, April 26, 2023 UNITED NATIONS, April 25 (Xinhua) — Despite a cease-fire, shortages of essentials are becoming acute in Sudan, sending prices soaring while evacuees head for the borders, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. Authorities reported that a 72-hour cessation of hostilities went into effect midnight Monday and appeared to be mostly…
[ad_1] Police in Dukku town have detained two minors over the killing of a 16-year-old boy in Dukku LGA of Gombe State. A source privy to the crime told City & Crime that the suspected killers, Buba Umaru and Husseini Umaru, both 15 years old, killed one Buba Dahiru, 16, on the eve of Sallah…
[ad_1] The contribution of road accidents to Nigeria’s mortality rate was recently captured by this newspaper in a story titled ‘Auto crashes claim 385 lives in 3 months’. Several others sustained injuries, with many becoming permanently incapacitated. The data analysed by the newspaper showed high casualties in Bauchi, Kebbi, Niger, Lagos and Kano states, with…
[ad_1] The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said that fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan had occupied the national public laboratory holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an “extremely, extremely dangerous” situation. Nima Saeed Abid, WHO’s representative in Sudan said fighters “kicked out all the technicians from the lab…
[ad_1] Dr Walter Mulombo, the World Health Organization (WHO’s) representative for Nigeria has revealed that an estimated 6.2 million Nigerian children are expected to be immunized between 2019 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic’s detrimental effects. Speaking at a media roundtable on Tuesday to mark the African Vaccination Week in 2023, Dr…
By Gom Mirian Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Campus France on collaboration in the areas of joint research and promotion of innovation, training of qualified Nigerian academics in French higher educational institutions, scholars/students exchanges and support for French language immersion programmes. TETFund Executive…
[ad_1] Valentine Obienyem, media adviser to Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says his principal did not say “serious leaders do not go on rest”. Obi, on Sunday, joined the Muslim community to celebrate Eid-el-Fitr at the Central Mosque in Onitsha, Anambra state. In a statement on Tuesday, Obienyem said Obi…
By Juliet Jacob The World Health Organisation, WHO, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are partnering to reverse vaccination decline among children. The organisations are joining forces to call ”The Big Catch” which aims to reverse the decline in childhood vaccination recorded in various countries since the pandemic, due to overburdened…
