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Durumi IDP camp, Abuja lacked a functional school and library; but here’s how Changemakers’ help puts behind the challenges

By Editor March 10, 2023 157 0

By Daniel Adaji Hajia Bintu Ali, a 53-year-old woman and her three children moved into the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Area I, Abuja about four years ago. They fled from Goza, a community in Borno State, North-East Nigeria, where she had lost three of her six children to deadly Boko Haram attacks. While […]Continue Reading

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IWD: Dangote leverages on innovative technologies to achieve gender equity

By Editor March 10, 2023 149 0

… Women play crucial roles in our success story – Fatima Aliko Dangote Executive Director, Commercial, NASCON Allied Industries, Fatima Aliko Dangote has revealed that the Dangote Group has invested in innovative technologies and processes in order to achieve gender equality and empowerment of all women in the organisation. Besides, Fatima disclosed that women are Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s total trade hits N11.722bn in Q4 2022

By Editor March 10, 2023 158 0

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s total merchandise trade stood at N11,722.44 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022. This is according to the NBS Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics Report for Q4 2022 released in Abuja on Friday. The NBS said total exports stood at N6,359.61 billion and total imports stood at […]Continue Reading

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Banks yet to start cash payment, leaving customers stranded

By Editor March 7, 2023 137 0

Commercial banks in some satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had yet to start cash payment, leaving customers stranded and frustrated in spite of the Supreme Court ruling. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who monitored banks in Nyanya, Mararaba and Karu in Abuja on Tuesday, reports that none of the banks […]Continue Reading

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Stakeholders seek universal access to water, sanitation in Africa

By Editor March 7, 2023 174 0

Leaders, development partners and government ministries have called for a universal guaranteed access to water and sanitation services in Africa. The stakeholders resolved this in a communique issued at the end of the 21st African Water Association International Congress and Exhibition. The event was held at the 7th Faecal Sludge Management Conference in Abidjan. Let’s Continue Reading

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IWD: NCWS seeks mainstreaming of women into digital world

By Editor March 7, 2023 117 0

The National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) has urged stakeholders in the technology industry to mainstream women into the sector for gender equality. The National President of NCWS, Hajiya Lami Lau, said this in a statement on Tuesday in commemoration of the 2023 International Women’s Day (IWD). The theme of this year’s edition is: “DigitALL: […]Continue Reading

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Liverpool humiliates Manchester United 7-0, as Salah makes history

By Editor March 6, 2023 241 0

Liverpool were goal crazy on Sunday as they humiliated rivals Manchester United 7-0 in the biggest 2022/2023 English Premier League (EPL) encounter of the week. Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah all scored twice, while Roberto Firmino netted once to boost their Premier League top-four hopes. The humiliation came just a week after Manchester […]Continue Reading

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Buhari seeks duty-free market access for least developed countries

By Editor March 6, 2023 131 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on developed and developing nations to grant duty-free and quota-free market access for products originating from the world’s 46 least-developed countries. He said that this would ensure their integration in regional and global value chains. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman in a statement, said Buhari made the call in […]Continue Reading

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1st African, Iyabo Masha, becomes G-24 director

By Editor March 6, 2023 113 0

The Intergovernmental Group of 24 on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G24) has announced the appointment of Dr Iyabo Masha, as its Director. The international organization stated this in a statement issued in Washington DC on Friday and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that the […]Continue Reading

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PDP Kogi East Senatorial District candidate calls for cancellation of results

By Editor March 3, 2023 177 0

By Daniel Adaji The Kogi East senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Victor Alewo Adoji has rejected and called for the cancellation of results of the Senatorial elections in six local governments areas in Kogi State held on Saturday 25 February 2023. Dr. Adoji made this known in a press statement yesterday […]Continue Reading

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Ojochenemi: The story of a ‘Bello Ambassador’ killed over suspected thuggery in Anyigba on election day

By Editor March 1, 2023 219 0

By Daniel Adaji The story of Akaiba Ojochenemi who was killed for allegedly snatching ballot boxes at a polling unit in Dekina area of Kogi State has gone viral on the social media and other media platforms. The incidence which took place on 25 February 2023 has received cold reactions from the appropriate quarters. The […]Continue Reading

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No, never again in Kogi East Senatorial District

By Editor March 1, 2023 148 0

By Theophilus Abbah, PhD   Just three months after the third anniversary of the gruesome murder, the sacrifice, the burning alive of Mrs Salome Abu in Ochadamu, her ancestral home, in Kogi State, on the altar of politics to lubricate the undeserved victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November, 2019 Kogi governorship […]Continue Reading