IFAD gets EU assistance to boost food security in West Africa
The European Union (EU) has provided €20 million to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), to work with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in developing a coordinated response to increasing food security in the region by improving access to food.
Arik Air emerges successful in safety audit
Arik Air has emerged successful in the International Air Transport Association’s Operational Safety Audit, IOSA, concluded last week.
More condemnations greet Northern leaders call for Jonathan impeachment
MORE condemnations yesterday, greeted the call by some Northern leaders that President Goodluck Jonathan should either resign or face impeachment.
Give us standard gyms, we’ll produce champions – Weightlifting coach
Nigerian weight-lifting coach, Patrick Bassey has called on the sports minister, Isa Ibrahim Bio to make good his promise to upgrade Nigerian gyms.
Osayomi settles for silver
Damola Osayomi won Nigeria’s first track and field medal yesterday, at the New Delhi 2010 Common-wealth Games.
Oghiadomhe’s purported arrest, a distraction – Presidency
THE Presidency yesterday dismissed rumours of arrest of Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, the Chief of Staff to President Goodluck Jonathan as the handiwork of political detractors who are bent on causing disaffection in the system.
