Ossom Raphael The Director General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Mallam Farouk Salim, said the agency has resolved to adopt additional approaches, including data analytics, risk-based assessment, outcome-focused regulation, collaborative, coordinated and proactive enforcement strategies to rid the country of substandard products. Salim also said the agency would strengthen its supervisory role over it’s stakeholders... Read More
______________ In today’s world, digital skills are increasingly important. However, within the EU, little progress has been made in recent years in improving basic digital competence among adult Europeans. The Commission has issued guidance and supported Member States, but there have been relatively few EU-funded projects focusing on basic digital literacy for adults. The European... Read More
____——__— NEW EDUCATION RECOVERY PACKAGE ANNOUNCED FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE New £700 million plan laid out to help young people in England catch up on lost learning due to the pandemic Further expansion of tutoring through the successful National Tutoring Programme, and the Tuition Fund for 16-19 year old students More language support introduced... Read More
Former minister of aviation and fiery nationalist, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has described popular clergy and prophet in charge of Champions Royal Assembly, Joshua Iginla as a truly remarkable, kind, compassionate,gifted, wise, extraordinary amd anointed man of God during his courtesy visit to his 80,000 seater auditorium known as City of Wonders at Kubwa, Abuja.... Read More
The Sun editor, Femi Babafemi, appointed NDLEA’s Director of Media The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has appointed editor, Saturday Sun, Mr. Femi Babafemi as the Agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy. The appointment, which takes immediate effect will enable the new appointee leverage on his almost two and half decades experience in... Read More
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, has said virtual assets and cryptocurrencies are risky for implementation in Nigeria. Prof. Owasanoye made this known in his presentation to the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions during its hearing on... Read More
Muyiwa Bamidele The Nigerian Senate has confirmed the appointment of the immediate past service chiefs as non career Ambassadors following consideration of the report of the Senate committee on Foreign Affairs. They are General Abayomi Olonisakin Rtd (Ekiti), Lt General Tukur Buratai Rtd (Borno), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas Rtd (Cross River), Air Marshal... Read More
No less than 1 in 5 individuals in Lagos, Enugu, and the Nasarawa States have ever been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 virus), even as more Nigerians are still at risk, according to findings of COVID-19 Household Seroprevalence Surveys in Four States of Nigeria. The surveys were conducted by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC,... Read More
Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has expressed delight over the appointment of Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO. The regional group in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Ken Robinson, said: “It gives us great pleasure to extend our warmest congratulations to Dr Okonjo-Iweala... Read More
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, says it is uncharitable for Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State to label his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed, as a ‘terrorist governor’. Fani-Kayode made this known in a string of tweets on Monday night hours after Ortom called Mohammed a Fulani terror member for saying herdsmen bear... Read More