…Resumes Daily Flights Monday United Nigeria Airlines has flown relief materials to Yenagoa for distribution to victims of the devastating flood disaster in Bayelsa State. Chief Operating Officer of the airline, Mazi Osita Okonkwo, said the donations were made in fulfillment of the airline’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). “The flood…
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Chidimma UCHEGBU UNICEF has warned that more than 2.5 million people in Nigeria, of which 60 percent are children, are in need of humanitarian assistance and are also at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition due to the most severe flooding in the past decade The floods, which…
The Ebonyi Transparency and Accountability Network (E-TAN) has called in the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, to arrest and prosecute those involved in the kidnap of a former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Linus Okorie, in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital. The group said the kidnap…
Chidimma UCHEGBU Participants at the National Conference on Out Of School Children in Nigeria have called for political will, consistency in policy delivery and good leadership in tackling the Out Of School Children menace confronting the nation. Stakeholders also called for adequate and consistent funding as well as deliberate investment…
Prof. Martin Ike Muonso As the country prepares for the 2023 presidential elections, there have been several debates on the country’s financial situation. There are many expectations from the incoming president of Nigeria to take drastic actions and stop the country’s fiscal crisis. Imagine being appointed the CEO of one…
Youths from Ebonyi state have urged Nigerians to hold Governor David Umahi responsible should anything untoward happen to Hon. Linus Okorie, who was allegedly abducted last Sunday by agents of the state government. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, Monday, Moses Idika who led other Ebonyi state youths to…
The Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB) Ltd has said that it helped in raising financing for the completion of a gas utilisation project in the Ohaji area of Imo state. This was contained in the bank’s messaging documenting the values it had added to the growth of energy business in Nigeria,…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it has trained about 17,000 academic staff on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the last two years. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, made this known at an Asset Declaration, Security and Fraud Detection Awareness Workshop/TETFund SERVICOM Week in…
Chidimma UCHEGBU, Abuja The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has said that the 37 smart schools being built by the Federal Government in the different states, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), is consistent with world standards and global best practice in smart…
The basic academic qualification of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Kaduna state for the February 2023 election, Hon. Isah Mohammed Ashiru, is now a matter of dispute at a Kaduna State High Court. The suit is listed as KDH/KAD/638/2021 A former governorship aspirant of the party, Prof…