Insurgency: Agric expert calls for intervention for survivors in N’East
By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja An Agricultural expert, Tunde Ojei, Thursday, called for agricultural intervention for survivors of insurgency in the North East region. Ojei made the call while speaking in a chat with Vanguard making life meaningful again for victims of the conflict that has ravaged the North East region of the country for […]
John Boyega represents Nigeria at Star Wars premiere
British-Nigerian Actor John Boyega donned an agbada, traditional Yoruba dress, for the London premiere of the eagerly awaited Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker. Boyega has starred in the last three of the nine-episode sci-fi adventure. In the first film, his character, Finn, starts off as a soldier for the evil Galactic Empire and […]
Pressure grows for another new state in Ethiopia
In what can be seen as yet another test for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, thousands of people from the Wolayta ethnic group, in the southern part of the country, are staging demonstrations demanding their own regional state. This comes weeks after the Sidama, another ethnic group in the area, voted in a referendum […]
UNICEF renovates 34 PHCs in Bauchi state
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it has renovated 34 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in Bauchi State to ensure child survival and improve the healthcare infrastructure. Bahnu Pathak, the Chief, Bauchi Field Office, UNICEF, disclosed this on Thursday in Disina, Shira Local Government Area(LGA) of the state, during official handing-over of the Disina PHC […]
Edo govt holds training, promotion exercise for teaching, non-teaching staff
The Edo State Government will tomorrow, Thursday, December 19, 2019 commence training, evaluation and promotion exercise for teaching and non-teaching staff in the state. The exercises, which will be conducted by the Edo State Post Primary Education Board, will take place in the three senatorial zones of the state. READ ALSO: What is really going […]
Budget Office to Spend N755.3m on miscellaneous, travel, printing, others
By Emmanuel Elebeke The Budget Office of the Federation is to spend N755.3 million on travel, miscellaneous, printing of non-security documents and electricity charges from the total allocation of N1.9 billion allocation for the year. Other items expected to gulp the amount include procurement of office stationaries, construction, and repair of fire fighting station, purchase […]
