Mr Salihu Lukman, the Director-General, Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), has called on the All Progressives Congress (APC), to ensure wide citizen’s participation through membership recruitment and establishment of credible and verifiable membership register. Lukman, who made the call in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said APC can only be progressive, if it is able to encourage and promote citizens participation and competition within the party. “A major gap created by the current orientation of political parties in Nigeria with perverted political behaviour, which confer prerogative of membership recruitment to political leaders is the barrier that is making it almost…
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Miss Erochukwu Nwodo, former Miss Plateau, has pledged to showcase the rich cultural heritage of Northern Nigeria through pageantry. Nwodo, the Chief Executive Officer of Rocy Reset Style Plus Entertainment, made the pledge in Jos on Sunday in an interview with newsmen to flag off the Nigerian Rubies Pageant in Jos. She said that the region was blessed with rich culture not adequately explored and showcased to the world. “I intend to encourage those from the Northern region to participate in this pageantry to show the world who they really are culturally. “It will show the richness of the cultural…
The Zamfara Agency for Community and Social Development (CSDP), a World Bank intervention project, has embarked on sensitisation of communities within the state on maintenance and sustainability of micro-projects.Speaking at a one-day capacity building training in Gusau on Sunday, the Permanent Secretary of the agency, Alhaji Garba Muhammad, said that the training was to sensitise the benefitting communities on how to manage and sustain the facilities.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that participants at the programme were drawn from members of Community Projects Management Committees (CPMCs) in the 33 communities across the 13 council areas in the state as…
Kwara has recorded seven new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 833.Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and Spokesman of the state Technical Committee on COVID-19, made this known in a statement issued on Sunday in Ilorin.According to him, out of the 833 confirmed cases, 462 patients have been discharged, leaving 352 active cases in the state.Ajakaye said 19 deaths had also been recorded out of the 3, 785 people who tested positive for the virus.He added that 2, 844 people had tested negative for COVID-19, while 108 tests were still…
An Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Dr Abosede Lewu, says men and women, who smoke cigarettes experience high infertility rate than nonsmokers, due to health risks associated with smoking. Lewu, Team Lead at Girlsaide Initiative and Convener, Keep All Mothers Alive (KAMA) Project, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday that such smoking men and women were “smoking away their babies”. She said that cigarette contained many harmful chemicals such as nicotine, cyanide and carbon monoxide that could affect fertility in both men and women negatively. “In women of childbearing age, smoking can speed up the loss rate of eggs,…
Aug. 8, 2020 (NAN) Sen. Wali Jibrin, the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged the National Assembly to hasting the process of empowering INEC to conduct all elections in the country.This, he said, would go a long way in giving the electorate the opportunity to elect credible leaders at the grassroots, thereby strengthening democracy.Jibrin made the call while speaking with newsmen in his country home, Nasarawa, during the Nasarawa central constituency’s bye-election, conducted by INEC on Saturday.According to him, most of the elections conducted at the local government level in most parts of…
The Federal Government and ECOWAS have announced plans to host a two-day Regional CBD consultation to agree on the protection, restoration, and preservation of biodiversity in West Africa. This is contained in a statement Mr Oladapo Soneye, spokesman of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) issued on Sunday. Soneye said the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework will hold on Aug.10 and Aug.11,2020 through a webinar. “The priorities for the consultation will be centered on Biodiversity on the African continent with the hope of mobilising regional efforts to deliver biodiversity protection and resource mobilisation toward achieving the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Soneye added…
The Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) in Ekiti says mosques in the state are now well positioned to meet the conditions for reopening amidst the COVID-19 pandemic The group stated this in a communique signed by the chapter’s President, Alhaji Yaqubu Sanni, after a stakeholders meeting. The communique was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti. NAN reports that the meeting was convened by the NSCIA in conjunction with the League of Imams and Alfas in South-West, Edo and Delta led by its President-General, Alhaji Jamiu Bello. The communique said the meeting was…
reports that Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020 relaxed some of the lockdown measures instituted by the Lagos State Government to combat the spread of the pandemic. Following the decline in COVID-19 positive cases, Gov. Sanwo-Olu in his 17th briefing on COVID-19 response had directed the re-opening of places of worship in the state, starting from Aug. 7,2020 for mosques and Aug. 9, 2020 for churches. In March 2020, part of the efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 was that the Lagos State Government announced various lockdown measures and ban on public gatherings. Initially, with 11…
A total of 327 stranded Nigerians successfully evacuated by the Federal Government have departed Gatwick Airport, London, and are expected to arrive at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. Ms Sarah Sanda, Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, disclosed this to journalists on Sunday in Abuja. Sanda said the returnees departed London at 11.15a.m. aboard Air Peace airline. “The 327 returnees from the UK departed Gatwick Airport in London to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport today, Aug. 9, 2020, at 11.15a.m. aboard Air Peace flight No. P47854 operated by Air Europa Fight No AEA855,” she said. The…