Favour Ozioma Ogbodo President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday leave Abuja for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to attend the Saudi-Africa Summit. The summit is scheduled for November 10, 2023. This was didisclosed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, on Wednesday. He said the president’s participation in the summit aligns…
Jumoke Olasunkanmi The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has flayed President Bola Tinubu for failing to prioritise the needs of impoverished Nigerians as evidenced in the controversial N2.1tr supplementary budget he signed into law on Wednesday. He noted in a series of tweets posted on X, that no…
Juliet Jacob Ochenje The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said an average of 160 children are killed daily in Gaza, following Israel’s continued attacks for a month now. WHO spokesman, Christian Lindmeier, disclosed this during a UN briefing in Geneva. Lindmeier reiterated the “urgent need” for a humanitarian pause to ease the suffering of those…
Gom Mirian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed the N2.17 trillion 2023 supplementary budget into law. The Senate and House of Representatives last Thursday passed the supplementary money bill and subsequently adopted a harmonised version which was forwarded for presidential assent. Tinubu had requested the National Assembly ti approve the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as the…
In recent times, there has been an upsurge in the establishment of government-owned tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This trend has brought to the forefront, the debate on whether the focus should be on quantity or quality. Gom Mirian writes that while some stakeholders believe that more institutions are needed to cater for the increasing number…
Gom Mirian Nigeria has taken a step towards digitisation with the launch of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (CRVS) and Geospatial Data Repository. The system was launched by President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday to move away from paper-based recording of vital events to a state-of-the-art digital solution that meets international standards. …
Jumoke Olasunkanmi Days after announcing the ban of paraquat herbicide and Gentian Violet (GV) in animal feed, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued another directive banning the use of atrazine herbicide and colistin in animal feeds. Atrazine is a herbicide used to control grasses and prevent the emergence…
Favour Ozioma Ogbodo The departments of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT), neurology and others in the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi, Abuja, have been hit by the brain drain of medical professionals as 51 staff have resigned since 2023. This is according to the medical director of hospital, Prof Sa’ad Ahmed, who made the disclosure…
Gom Mirian In a bid to address the persistent issue of power outages in Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has announced its readiness to collaborate with the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) to ensure uninterrupted power supply to educational institutions across the country. Speaking when a delegation from REA…
Juliet Jacob Ochenje The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security have commenced discussions on how to deploy existing technical competencies and other resources to meet agro allied-industries development targets, climate change mitigations and smart solar irrigation to improve dry season farming. The trio of…
