Nurudeen Ojora-Adejiyan
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With food and nutrition insecurity reaching alarming proportions worldwide, there is no better time to discuss this invaluable subject than now. This is with a view to proffering local and creative solutions that can be implemented both in the short and long terms. The President of the Association of Lagos State Retired Heads of Service…
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University of Calabar Student Union President (SUG), Blessing Alims, has appointed 50 aides who would help her in an advisory role in her administration. Alims, currently a student of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolutions at the Department of Political Science, was elected SUG President on June 14, 2024, and also explained the reasons for her…
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The House of Representatives’ monthly salary is N600,000 as against the N900,000 that is being speculated, says Rep. Akin Rotimi. Rotimi, who is the Spokesperson of House of representative made the clarification in a statement he issued on Wednesday in Abuja. He reaffirmed the commitment of the house to the 50 percent deduction in their…
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Defence Minister, Alhaji Muhammed Badaru, has called for enhanced joint efforts towards countering terrorism, managing cross border crimes and other hybrid threats within the West African sub-region. Badaru made the call at the opening of the 42nd Ordinary Meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff, on…
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Worried by the unabated energy challenges in the country, the Nigerian Society of Petroleum Engineers (NSPE) has partnered with the real estate investor, the Mayor of Housing, My-ACE China, to tackle the energy crisis. The partnership, it was gathered, would abate energy problems, especially in the housing sector, with the use of renewable energy such…
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A former Chief Security Officer to the late military head of state, Sani Abacha, and ex-presidential candidate of Action Alliance (AA), Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has said President Bola Tinubu squandered his goodwill with his shambolic performance since assuming office. The retired military officer-turned-politician said he would have done things differently had he won the 2023…
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When Mrs Mary James informed her friends that she would be taking her daughter, Faith, 13, to get a dose of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, they exchanged perplexing glances. Her friends, Mrs Hope Uwa and Mrs Yemi Adams questioned her decision, based on many yet to be founded concerns on HPV vaccine. However, James, a…
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The National Population Commission (NPC) in Osun State has called on parents and guardians in the state to cooperate with hundreds of its volunteers who have been sent out to carry out birth registration. This charge was given by the state NPC director, Tinuola Adeboye, while speaking in Osogbo. Adeboye disclosed that the commission has…
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The Chairman of the House Committee on Downstream Petroleum, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, has denied the story making the rounds that he bribed the Speaker of the House of Representatives with a whopping sum of $1.7 million to secure his plum job. Ugochinyere, representing Ideato North and South Federal Constituency of Imo State, described such talk…
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Gov. Bassey Otu of Cross River has approved the recruitment of 31 medical doctors, 153 nurses and 22 pharmacists to address the manpower deficit in the state health sector. Dr Henry Ayuk, the Commissioner for Health, disclosed this at a press briefing on Wednesday in Calabar. Ayuk said that the decision to employ more health…
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The Plateau State Government has announced a relaxation of the 24-hour curfew imposed in the Jos-Bukuru metropolis. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang's spokesperson, Gyang Bere, said in a statement on Wednesday that the relaxation was given following the improvement in the security situation within the Jos-Bukuru metropolis. "Effective from Wednesday, August 7, 2024, residents of the area…