Bauchi signs $70m MoU with UK firm for 10 megawatts of energy
By Charly Agwam – Bauchi Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PowerDot, a UK based energy firm for provision of affordable, uninterrupted electricity through incineration of municipal solid waste to energy. Speaking shortly after signing the $70m MoU in Bauchi on Friday, the governor pledged to provide the […]
Kano to introduce COVID-19 marshals
Kano State Government is to appoint COVID- 19 marshals to enforce safety protocols. Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje disclosed this on Saturday while meeting with journalists, at the Government House, Kano. He said there was the need to tackle COVID-19 with all seriousness, noting that non-compliance to safety protocols had been identified as a huge challenge to […]
COVID-19 and 2021 Tokyo Olympics
ON September 7, 2013, at the 125th International Olympic Committee, IOC, Session in Buenos Aires, Tokyo won its bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games. The Games were scheduled to commence on July 24, 2020. Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the IOC, the games organisers and the government of Japan agreed to move […]
Matawalle visits attacked communities, promises improved security
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara on Saturday visited communities recently attacked by bandits in Maru and Maradun LGAs of the state, and promised to improve security. Recall that gunmen last week attacked Dutsingari, Rayyau and Janbako communities in the two LGAs and killed more than 40 people. READ ALSOAnambra 2021: November 6 poll a […]
IFAD charges world leaders to increase investment to assist small-scale farmers adapt to climate change
To mobilise $500m in tackling threats to food security As climate change’ll push 140 million people to migrate by 2050 By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The International Fund Agricultural Development, IFAD, on Saturday, charged world leaders to increase investment to assist small-scale farmers to adapt to climate change, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across […]
Reviving vaccine production in Nigeria
ON Monday, the Federal Government announced a N10 billion fund to support domestic vaccine production to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. At the briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, PTF, in Abuja, Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, revealed that the Ministry of Finance had released the sum to support efforts […]
Okowa to inaugurates Teachers’ centre, FRSC training School in February
Delta State Governor Dr.Ifeanyi Okowa on Saturday said the Teachers Professional Development Centre and the Federal Road Safety Training School in the state would be ready for inauguration in February. The governor made the disclosure after inspecting the extent of work done at both centres at Owa-Alero, Ika North East Local Government Area. He said […]
Environmentalists, regulators visit spill impacted communities in Bayelsa
By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa Preliminary investigations into the January 16, 2021 oil leak near Funiwa offshore facilities. off the Atlantic coast have commenced with a visit by Bayelsa government officials, regulatory agencies and representatives of impacted communities. Local fishermen around the Atlantic coastline of Bayelsa State had on January 17 sighted and reported an oil […]
Kaduna:Commission PHC to reduce child, maternal deaths, community urges govt
The residents of Unguwar-Jatau community, on the outskirts of Kaduna metropolis, have appealed to the state government to open an already built Primary Health Care centre (PHC) in the area, earlier abandoned for three years, to reduce maternal and infant mortality in the community. In an interview with Journalists, in Kaduna, on Saturday, Mr Musa […]
Buhari canvasses restructuring of ECOWAS, orders release of $20m to counter terrorism
President Muhammadu Buhari has advocated for the restructuring of ECOWAS, saying that the organization needed to streamline its management to adjust to current realities. ”A situation where ECOWAS has 23 statutory appointees, of which 13 are Commissioners for this Commission is totally unsustainable”, the president said in his presentation to the virtual 58th Ordinary Session […]
Social Crusader threatens to drag Gov Obaseki to court over insecurity in Edo
Alleges residents at mercy of robbers, kidnappers, cultists By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja A social crusader and Founder, One Love Foundation, Chief Patrick Eholor, yesterday, threatened to drag Governor Godwin Obaseki, over a worrisome insecurity situation in Edo State. Eholor who lamented the current spate of violence in the state alleged that residents now live […]
