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Senegal
Dakar offre 10% de ses premières doses à la Gambie et à la Guinée Bissau
Dakar, 23 févr (APS) – Le président sénégalais a décidé de mettre à la disposition de la Gambie et de la Guinée Bissau 10% des 200 000 premières doses de vaccin reçus de la firme pharmaceutique Sinopharm, a annoncé le ministre de la Santé et de l'Action sociale, Abdoulaye Diouf ...
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Nigeria
Stakeholders Pick Holes In Management Of Safe School Initiative
BY HENRY TYOHEMBA, DUSTAN AGHEDO | Stakeholders in the country’s education sector have expressed worry about the utilisation of the $20million voted for the commencement of the Safe Schools Initiative to cover over 500 rural schools. The Safe Schools Initiative was launched at the World Economic Forum on Africa in ...
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Nigeria
Cryptocurrency Used To Finance Terrorism, CBN, NFIU, ICPC Tell NASS
By Jonathan Nda- Isaiah, Emameh Gabriel | Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, chairman Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, and Nigerian Financial Intelligent Unit (NFIU) yesterday told the Senate that cryptocurrency is being used as a channel for funding violent ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria Institutions Of Learning Needs Qualified Academics – Ajiboye
BY ADEBAYO WAHEED, Ibadan The Registrar, Chief Executive, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) Professor Segun Ajiboye has said academic excellence would be easily achieved in the country when highly qualified professionals are given opportunity to teach in the nation’s institutions of learning. Ajiboye who stated this while presenting the ...
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Nigeria
Court Grants NDLEA Permission To Destroy Explosive Laden Container
BY OLUGBENGA SOYELE, Lagos Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos has granted leave to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to destroy a 1×20 feet container loaded with 381 bags of Ammonium Nitrate, a Chemical used in producing explosives. Justice Faji granted the permission to ...
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USA
Insecurity: Adopt Ayade’s Crime Bursting Blueprint, APC Chieftain Urges Other Governors
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State, Mr Goddy Akpama has applauded Governor Ben Ayade’s handling of security issues in the state. He said in a statement he released in Calabar that Cross River is now one of the safest states in the country where ...
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Nigeria
Senate Approves Appointment Of Ex-Service Chiefs As None-Career Ambassadors
By EMAMEH GABRIEL, Abuja The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of ex- service Chiefs as non-career ambassadors-designate The nomination was confirmed after a report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs was read on the floor of the red chamber by Senator Bulkachuwa Adamu Muhammed (Bauchi State). It should be ...
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Brasile
Entidades criticam desvinculação de recursos para a educação
“Séria ameaça de retrocesso no financiamento da educação pública”, alerta o Consed Entidades ligadas à educação manifestaram-se nesta terça-feira contra os dispositivos do substitutivo da Proposta de Emenda à Constituição (PEC) 186 que extinguem as vinculações constitucionais de recursos para a área, assim como para a saúde. ...
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Brasile Argentina
Câmara facilita compra de vacinas, mas veta permissão para setor privado
Medida facilita a aquisição de vacinas e deve ajudar processo de registro da russa Sputnik e da indiana Covaxin A Câmara dos Deputados aprovou hoje medida provisória (MP) que facilita o processo de aquisição de vacinas contra a covid-19, ao estabelecer procedimentos simplificados, mas acabou rejeitando a ...
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Brasile
CVM multa diretor de RI da refinaria de Manguinhos
O executivo foi acusado pela não divulgação de fato relevante sobre decisão judicial desfavorável à companhia, de litígio envolvendo Manguinhos e a Petrobras A Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) multou em R$ 200 mil Antônio Eduardo Filippone de Seixas, enquanto diretor de relações com investidores da Refinaria ...