Menstrual Health: Foundation sets up sanitary pad bank in Akwa Ibom School 

HealthNewsNigeriaMenstrual Health: Foundation sets up sanitary pad bank in Akwa Ibom School 

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)October 14, 2023

AIDS Health Foundation (AHF) Nigeria has promised to work with Akwa Ibom State government to set up a sanitary pad bank in Aka Community Secondary School, Uyo. The decision was taken in line with efforts to improve the menstrual health of school children in the state. Advocacy and Marketing Manager, AHF,  Mr Steve Aborisade made the disclosure while speaking at an event to mark the 2023 International Day of the Girl Child in Uyo. According...

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AFCON: Nigeria drawn against host nation, Cote d’ Ivoire

NewsNigeriaSoccerAFCON: Nigeria drawn against host nation, Cote d’ Ivoire

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)October 14, 2023

The draw for the group stage of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals in Cote d’ Ivoire held on Thursday with Nigeria Super Eagles drawn against the host country, Cote d’ Ivoire in group A. Also drawn with Nigeria are Guinea Bissau and Equatorial; Guinea. Group B teams are Mozambique, Cape Verde, Ghana and Egypt while Group C teams are defending champions Senegal, Cameroon, Guinea and Gambia. Reports have it that Algeria will...

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Ministers of solid minerals, interior to set up joint task force on security

NewsNigeriaMinisters of solid minerals, interior to set up joint task force on security

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)October 14, 2023

The Ministers of Solid Minerals Development and Interior have announced plans to set up a joint task force on security to curb illegal mining. The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, noted that the synergy with the Interior Ministry is crucial to the development of solid minerals in line with the Renewed Hope agenda of the President Bola Tinubu administration. Speaking while welcoming the Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Ojo to his office, Alake...

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Anambra wins best local government service commission in adoption of ICT

NewsNigeriaTechnologyAnambra wins best local government service commission in adoption of ICT

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)October 14, 2023

The Anambra State Local Government Service Commission has won the best state local government commission in the adoption of Information Communication Technology (ICT). According to reports made available to journalists on Friday, the award ceremony was organised by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms of the Presidency under the auspices of Nigeria GOVTECH Public Service Awards, took place at the International Convention Centre, Abuja. The Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Mr. Tony-Collins...

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Tinubu appoints new heads for CAC, SMEDAN, SON, others

NewsNigeriaPoliticsTinubu appoints new heads for CAC, SMEDAN, SON, others

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)October 14, 2023

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointments of new chief executive officers of several agencies and parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment. Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, issued a statement on the appointments on Friday. Ngelale said the appointments were in line with the president’s “resolve to base Nigeria’s economic revival on the foundation of trade expansion through small, medium and large scale industry facilitation...

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CBN lifts foreign-exchange ban on 43 items

BusinessNewsNigeriaCBN lifts foreign-exchange ban on 43 items

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)October 14, 2023

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has ended an eight-year ban on 43 items that had been restricted from accessing foreign exchange, forex, on the official market. The importers of all the previously restricted items “are now allowed to purchase foreign exchange in the Nigerian foreign exchange market,” Isa AbdulMumin, CBN’s director of corporate communications said in a statement on Thursday. In 2015, the CBN banned manufacturers and importers of the items from accessing forex...

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Enugu Governor Flags Off Construction of New City, 40km Dual Carriageway, 71 Urban Roads

NewsNigeriaEnugu Governor Flags Off Construction of New City, 40km Dual Carriageway, 71 Urban Roads

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)October 14, 2023

The Enugu State Governor Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah assures residents of the Coal City of reconstruction and construction of 71 roads within the urban area before the end of the year. Dr. Mbah stated this on Thursday when he flagged off the construction of New Enugu City roads made up of 17km dual carriageway and feeder roads, 40km Owo-Ubahu-Amankanu-Neke-Ikem dual carriageway, and the construction/reconstruction of 71 urban roads in Enugu capital city; the 71 urban...

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Senator Ifeanyi Ubah Confirms Move to APC

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSenator Ifeanyi Ubah Confirms Move to APC

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)October 12, 2023

The senator representing Anambra South senatorial district, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, has joined the All Progressives Congress – APC. This very move is considered in many quarters as a very strategic, though unexpected one, for some reasons, might change a lot of political permutations in Anambra and the Southeast in the coming weeks ahead. Only yesterday, the senator was seen in a photograph with some of his Anambra brothers in Abuja the nation’s capital, in what...

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Ifeanyi Ubah parts with YPP  over “irreconcilable differences” and joins APC

NewsNigeriaPoliticsIfeanyi Ubah parts with YPP  over “irreconcilable differences” and joins APC

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)October 12, 2023

Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah has on Thursday announced his decision to defect from the Young Progressive Party (YPP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ubah, who made his decision known in a letter read by President of Senate, Godswill Akpabio at plenary said that he decided to join the APC because of some irreconcilable differences in the YPP. He said, “I am writing to formally notify and inform you that due to irreconcilable differences, I have...

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Kogi Guber: Gov. Bello assures APC will win on strength of structure, achievements

NewsNigeriaPoliticsKogi Guber: Gov. Bello assures APC will win on strength of structure, achievements

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)October 12, 2023

Warns against ethnic sentiment Says party membership cuts across ethnic groups Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has assured that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the November 11 governorship election on the strength of the party’s structure and achievements and not ethnic sentiment. Bello noted the fact that ethnic politics has no place in the state, stressing that those pursuing any agenda aside from that which would benefit the entire state are enemies of...

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