National Agency for Control of AIDS, NACA, has established desks of intervention for gender violence especially for women living with HIV/AIDS across the 36 states of Nigeria. Representing NACA Director general, Alex Ogundipe disclosed this today, Friday while speaking with the journalists in Abuja. Ogundipe stated that gender violence was bad during the... Read More
Elem Chukwuemeka Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar of Joint Admission And Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the board introduced the use of National Identity Number (NIN) for the registration of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to checkmate examination malpractices. Oloyede who said the directive for the use of NIN as a prerequisite for registration... Read More
By Ossom Raphael Abuja – The Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency (SMEDAN) says it’s furniture and wood Enterprise cluster under construction at Industrial Development Centre (IDC), Idu, Abuja, would have the capacity to accommodate 525 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises when completed and operational. Dr Dikko Radda, Director-General, SMEDAN, who disclosed this on Thursday... Read More
The government wants to remind those in the Black community that help and support is still available during the coronavirus pandemic through the ongoing #YouAreNotAlone domestic abuse campaign. The #YouAreNotAlone campaign, which is open to people of all ethnicities, ages and backgrounds, was first set up in April 2020 in response to the increased demand... Read More
* Pump Price to go up as NNPC says they can no longer bear the burden. By Festus Fifen As Nigerians continue to speculate the possible pump price of petrol (Premium Motor Spirit), due to the constant rise of crude oil in the international market, The Federal Government on Thursday disclosed that it... Read More
The Governing Board of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says registration exercise for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination will start on Thursday, 8th April to Saturday, 15th May, 2021. The Board also says for any person to be registered for UTME/DE, he/she must supply his/her National Identity Number (NIN) A statement... Read More
Activities at the Abia State House of Assembly were yesterday grounded following the industrial action embarked on by the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN). The state Chairman of PASAN, Okezie Chijioke, told journalists that the gates of the Assembly complex had to be closed in compliance with the directives of the national leadership of... Read More
The Southern Senators Forum (SSF) has elected new leadership to run the affairs of the Forum in the current 9th Senate. After a meeting that lasted about two hours on Wednesday, Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, unveiled the new leadership of the group at a briefing with journalists at the National Assembly complex.... Read More
Transparency International (TI) has disclosed that an estimated $5 billion stolen from Nigeria is frozen in accounts in foreign countries. This was disclosed in Abuja during a media workshop organised by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), local chapter of TI in Nigeria. CISLAC policy advisor, Vaclav Prusa, said Nigeria is responsible... Read More
The Senate, Tuesday, considered a critical bill seeking to empower the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) in the aspect of assets recovery, as well as strengthen it against economic sabotage by debtors with unpaid loans to the tune of about N16 trillion naira. The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) Amendment... Read More