Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Doctor Advocates PPP Model In Health Sector
The Coronavirus pandemic has exposed the inadequacies in Nigeria’s healthcare policy and the need to embrace the public-private partnership model in funding and managing the sector. The medical director, Garki Hospital, Abuja, Dr Adamu Onu in an interview expressed joy that vaccination for COVID-19 has started on a successful note ...
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Solidaridad, FMARD Signs MoU To Improve Agricultural Productivity In Nigeria
By Blessing Bature-Akpakpan | Solidaridad West Africa has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) to improve agricultural productivity and ensure Nigeria’s self-sufficiency in agriculture and divestment of the economy from dependency on crude oil. Signing the MoU on behalf of ...
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Nat’l Principal’s Cup: Outstanding Athletes To Get Scholarships
By Olawale Ayeni, Abuja The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has revealed that outstanding athletes from the 2021 National Principal’s Cup would be awarded scholarships to further their educational careers. The sports ministry’s director of Grassroots, Ademola Are, while speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Friday, disclosed that the ...
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U-17 AFCON: Beware Of Congo, Manu Tells Golden Eaglets
BY OLAWALE AYENI, Abuja Ahead of the 2021 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations Cup (AFCON), former Golden Eaglets coach, Manu Garba, has tipped Congo as the most difficult opposition to Nigeria’s U17 national team. Five-times world champions Nigeria are grouped alongside Tanzania, Algeria and Congo in Group B of the ...
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The No-Nonsense Phase
By Wole Olaoye Mohammed Babagana Monguno, Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, usually doesn’t hug the klieg lights. In the face of the unprecedented spate of kidnappings, armed banditry and other threats to society, however, the retired army general recently spoke in unmistakable terms which many analysts have interpreted as signalling the ...
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Planning , Finance Ministries To Host Social Protection Policy Review Webinar
By MARGARET COFFIE, Abuja The ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning in conjunction with other international development partners is set to host an enlightenment webinar session billed to enable stakeholders effectively understand the provisions of the National Social Protection Policy and make their input in the planned process for ...
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Why Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Must Be Reviewed – Former Envoy
this Interview with INNOCENT ODOH, former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bulus Lolo, says Nigeria’s Foreign Policy must be comprehensively reviewed to address new challenges facing the global community, especially as they affect Nigeria in the 21st Century You have advocated a comprehensive conference to review ...
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Ethnic Tensions: Sultan Advocates More Dialogue, Prompt Govt Action
By Chibuzo Ukaibe, Abuja Sultan of Sokoto State Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged the government to be more prompt in addressing issues bordering on ethnic tensions as was experienced in recent weeks. He also added that Nigerians shouldn’t be afraid to discussion issues that affect them rather than resort ...
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Women Economic Emancipation, Panacea To Eradicate FGM, Gender Inequality – UNICEF
BY EMMANUEL MGBEAHURIKE, Owerri UNICEF has emphasized that the global interest in the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is achievable through tackling the root causes of gender inequality and strive for efforts towards Women’s Social and Economic Emancipation. This elucidation was made known by UNICEF Chief of Field Office ...
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FRSC Decorates 123 Special Marshals In Rivers
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Saturday, decorated 120 Special Marshals and three Honorary Special Marshals in the Rivers state Command. Corps Marshal of FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, while decorating the new special marshals during the induction ceremony in Port Harcourt, reaffirmed the agency’s commitment of service to ...
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Ganduje Cautions Against Politicising Security Matters
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has cautioned politicians against making unguarded comments on security-related matters that could undermine Federal Government’s efforts at securing the nation. This is contained in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Mr Muhammed Garba, on Saturday in Kano. Ganduje described the declaration of ...
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Late Arrival Of Materials Characterises LG Election In Delta
Late arrival of election materials and low turnout of voters characterised Saturday’s local council poll in parts of Delta. The News agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the few voters who turned out at the polling units expressed disappointment over the late arrival of voting materials. NAN reports ...
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Yvonne Jegede Awarded For Consistent Scholarship Payment
By Our Correspondent The management and staff of Roy-Dek Academy recently honoured one of Nigeria’s finest actresses, Yvonne Jegede for being consistent in paying the tuition of more than 20 pupils of the school for years. The actress who graduated from the University of Cyprus was duly honoured by the ...
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India-Nigeria Strategic, Counter-Terrorism Dialogue Holds In New Delhi
By INNOCENT ODOH, Abuja The India- Nigeria Strategic Dialogue to tackle terrorism and related crimes has held in New Delhi India with a Nigerian delegation led by the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno at the invitation of India’s National Security Advisser Shri Ajit K. Doval KC. According a ...
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‘Projeções são completamente factíveis’, diz Temporão sobre estimativas de 3 mil óbitos por dia
Segundo ex-ministro da Saúde, a situação é crítica, com risco real de colapso da rede hospitalar na maioria dos Estados do País Ex-ministro da Saúde, o médico sanitarista da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz José Gomes Temporão não só acredita numa escalada proeminente da curva da pandemia no país, ...
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Insecurity: FCTA Introduces School Security Guidelines Watch
Following the fear of insecurity among students in Abuja schools, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) said it has introduced routine strategic school security system, known as School Security Guidelines Watch (SSGW), to ensure the safety of students. Acting director of administration and finance, FCTA Education Secretariat, Mallam Leramoh Abdulrazaq, ...
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End Trade In Babies
Recently, 24 pregnant women and 11 children were rescued from a ‘baby’ factory in Calabar by operation Akpakwu, a security outfit set up by the Cross River State government. In Lagos too, a young mother of 22 was reported to have sold her three month old baby boy for a ...
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My Secret Life: Life Is Not A Bed Of Roses – Su’ad
LIFE IN BRIEF Chef Su’ad Abubakar Zubairu, of Fulani extraction from Adamawa State. She is political science graduate and boasts of two Post Graduate Diploma in Business and Education. She was out of job for 10 years after her graduation before she jointly opened the Spicy Sweet Culinary School with ...
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NLC, TUC Vow To Resist Removal Of Minimum Wage From Exclusive List
BY ADEBAYO WAHEED, Ibadan The Oyo State chapters of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have commenced mobilisation of members towards the planned nationwide protest over the removal of National Minimum Wage from the Exclusive Legislative List of the 1999 Constitution. This was made known at ...
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API, NBS Set To Partner On Nigeria Disability Data
Abuja-based opinion research think-tank, Africa Polling Institute (API), has unveiled plans to partner with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on the collection of data on people living with disabilities (PWD) in Nigeria, under the Nigeria Disability Project. The plan was made known during a recent courtesy visit by the ...
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UN, Germany, Unveil Plans To End Nigeria’s Illegal Wildlife Trade
BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja The United Nations has unveiled plans that would culminate into strategic partnership with the federal government, Germany and the European Union (EU) to end Nigeria’s wildlife trafficking and forest crimes through the development of the first-ever national strategy. Country representative of United Nations Office on Drugs ...