Chiedozie Egesi
4 Jun 2024
Staff Accountants at the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike, Abia State have called on the government to provide more funds for their training and re-training to position them to keep abreast with current trends in the practice of the profession.
24 Mar 2024
For two days, researchers, farmers, traditional rulers, businessmen and women stakeholders converged at the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Abia State, for the 2024 Annual Research review and planning workshop...
Latest
8 mins ago
At least 20 people, including a pregnant woman, four children, and a couple, were seriously injured in a gas explosion that occurred on Saturday afternoon in the Orazi axis of Port Harcourt. The incident took place near a densely populated area known as "Big Tree" causing panic among residents and passersby as the sound of…
19 mins ago
The Niger State Government has restricted movement in some areas over suspected terrorist threats in farms along the regions of Basa in the Shiroro Local Government area. Three persons died and five others were injured during a series of bomb explosions in the Bassa community in the Shiroro local government in mid-December 2024. Niger State…
34 mins ago
North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Monday toward the East Sea, South Korea's military said, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.
39 mins ago
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is likely to announce his resignation this week as he faces mounting dissent within his Liberal Party, newspaper The Globe and Mail reported Sunday.
42 mins ago
Former staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) who were sacked in a mass retrenchment in 2024 are seeking justice while demanding fair compensation. The former CBN employees dismissed in a series of mass termination of appointments have decided to take their case to court after accusing the apex bank of violating internal policies,…
46 mins ago
The Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has developed a comprehensive programme for the integration of the informal sector into the Employees Compensation Scheme (ECS). NSITF Managing Director, Oluwaseun Faleye, confirmed this in a statement on Sunday by NSITF General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Nwachukwu Ngige. Faleye said that the fund would tap into the immense…
51 mins ago
Governor Ahmed Ododo of Kogi State has mourned the death of the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof. Nuhu Yaqub. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Yaqub passed away on Saturday in Abuja at the age of 73 after a brief illness. In a statement issued in Lokoja on Sunday…
55 mins ago
President Joe Biden said Sunday that the events of January 6, 2021 -- when Donald Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol -- should not be forgotten or "rewritten" four years on.
57 mins ago
The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed the release of three Nigerian women who were arrested and prosecuted for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia. Hadiza Abba, Fatima Umate Malah, and Fatima Kannai Gamboi were reported to have spent 10 months after they were arrested for drug trafficking at the Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Azeez…
1 hour ago
President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday for Accra, Ghana, to attend the inauguration of John Mahama, President-elect, on Jan. 7. Mahama, who served as the 12th president of Ghana from 2011 to 2017, was reelected in December 2024. He will succeed President Nana Akuffo-Addo (2017-2025), Bayo Onanuga, President Tinubu’s Spokesman, said in a…