JALINGO — The Rotary Club International has supplied and donated 25 school desks to Jauro Mashi Government Day Secondary School Mayogwoi in Jalingo, Taraba State to ease the learning process in the school. The club also paid the NECO registration fee for 15 female students of the school. Sylvester Vinks Danjuma, the Synergy President of Rotary Club Jalingo City said the community school was chosen after a careful feasibility study. “The Club, after due consideration,...

By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter)   AWKA — No fewer than 1000 internally displaced flood victims in Awka North Local Government Area have received assorted food items and relief materials worth millions of Naira from the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship Most Rev Paulinus Ezeokafor. Bishop Ezeokafor who donated the items through Justice, Development and Peace Caritas, JDPC, Awka Diocese at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp located at St. Paul’s Catholic Church,...

Dr. Philip Ozuah who hails from Nteje in Anambra State and a product of the University of Ibadan has donated $1m to the College of Medicine of the University. The University of Ibadan, located in Oyo state is one of the oldest Universities in Nigeria and a centre of research and learning. Reacting to the gesture, the Presidential flagbearer of Labour Party LP, Mr Peter Obi praises the sterling qualities of the Medical Doctor and owner...

A non-governmental organization, Mustard Seed Organization (MSO), has commenced the monthly distribution of 100 menstrual hygiene packs to adolescent girls across colleges in Nigeria The program dubbed Menstrual Health Management (MHM) is in line with the organization’s mission of eradicating period poverty in sub-Saharan and many African countries. According to Mr. Innocent Ofoma, Director of Mustard Seed Organization, “All over Nigeria and Africa, millions of girls won’t go to school because they have their period...

Tragedy befell Emmanuel’s family last Thursday. Deborah, the eldest child and a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was stoned and burnt on the school campus for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. An incident that would make one wonder if God was, truly, with the family. Despite the trauma the horrendous murder caused them, the family inhumed late Deborah’s remains on Saturday in their hometown, Tunga Magajiya, in the Rijau Local Government Area...