2023 ELECTIONS: POLICY ALERT TO HOLD OPENGOV TOWNHALL AT ASABA, FRIDAY
Policy Alert, a non-governmental organization working to promote economic and ecological justice in the Niger Delta, has announced plans to hold the first in a series of OpenGov Town Halls this Friday at Asaba, Delta State. The event is being organised under the auspices of the Niger-Delta Open Observatory (NOGO), a civil society cluster aimed […]
FG EMPOWERS SMART FARMERS IN KATSINA
The federal government through the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has distributed smart agricultural materials to beneficiaries of the National Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture (NAVSA) 5-Day Empowerment Programme which took place at Al-Qalam University, Katsina, Katsina state. Spokesperson of NITDA, Hadiza Umar said NAVSA programme is also aimed at creating five million job […]
WHO analyses China’s Covid-19 data
The World Health Organisation said it is analysing the COVID-19 situation data provided to the agency by China. The WHO said Chinese officials provided information to the agency on a range of topics including outpatient clinics, hospitalisations, patients requiring emergency treatment and critical care and hospital deaths related to COVID-19 infection.this information which covers early […]
HEDA WRITES EFCC TO PROBE ATIKU
A civil society organisation, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) says it has asked for a thorough investigation into the interest of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar in a firm allegedly used to embezzle government’s funds. HEDA’s chairman Olanrewaju Suraju had petitioned the Economic and Financial Crime Commission […]
CRISIS LOOMS OVER DELAY IN RE-NEGOTIATION AGREEMENT – ASSU
Another round of crisis that may lead to another strike is looming in the public universities over the alleged inability of the Federal Government to conclude re-negotiations with the university-based unions on the 2009 Agreement. The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU has lamented that it has lost so many of its members as […]
NEWS TITBIT
Good day! Below are News stories around Nigeria and abroad: 1. Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was the Special Guest of Honour at a forum tagged “Conversation with the Vice President and Young People, hosted by his Liberian counterpart, Jewel Howard-Taylor on Monday. LEADERSHIP 2. The National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission says it has […]
ROSEMARY CHUKWU DASHES TO WORLD NUMBER ONE IN 2023
Nigeria’s fastest 400 meters runner in 2022 Rosemary Chukwuma opened up her 2023 campaign with a win running 53.51seconds to win the women’s 400meters at the Texas Tech Corky Classic. She ran the fastest time across the six heats finishing ahead of Nayanna Dubarry-Gay in 54.63 seconds and Lacarthea Cooper in 54.91 seconds. It was […]
Tweeter boss to face trial over allege stock Manipulation
Elon Musk, the CEO of electric car giant Tesla will face trial over allegedly manipulating the stock market with a tweet after a federal judge rejected his request to move the case out of California. The case dates back to August 2018 when Musk tweeted that he had sufficient funding to take Tesla private causing […]
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DEVELOP PLAN AGAINST LASSA FEVER
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), in collaboration with partners, federal and state stakeholders of the Technical Working Group have developed a five-year strategic plan to reduce Lassa fever fatality ratio in the country to less than 10 per cent. Director General of NCDC, Ifedayo Adetifa said this during an update on […]
FOUR LAUTECH RESEARCHERS WIN TETFUND RESEARCH FUND
The Principal Assistant Registrar, Public and Alumni Relations Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Olalekan Fadeyi has said that Four researchers from the University have won 89.1 million naira as research grant from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), under the 2021 TETFund National Research Fund Intervention. Fadeyi said that one of the researchers was Professor […]