The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated a 720,000-litre-per-day capacity Oxygen Plant to the Yobe State Government to help reduce neonatal mortality rates. Cristian Mundate, UNICEF’s Country Representative in Nigeria, handed over the facility to a representative of the state government on Monday in Damaturu. She emphasised the importance of safeguarding children’s right to healthcare. Mundate stated that the lack of oxygen in healthcare facilities has contributed to the tragic loss of many newborns, especially those with birth complications. “The motivation is primarily to protect children, as UNICEF’s mission worldwide is to guarantee children’s rights. “Having an oxygen plant in…
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Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) leading economies plan to reach a common position on the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their meeting on Monday. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who is hosting the two-day conference in the small Italian town of Fiuggi, said he did not think reaching a consensus on the arrest warrant would be difficult. “It’s not an immediate and actual problem. “I don’t think Netanyahu will come to Italy or anywhere else,” he told the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera before the…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says Ponzi schemes in the country’s market is continuously growing on a daily basis.Dr Emomotimi Agama, the Director-General of SEC said this at an engagement with newsmen in Abuja on Monday.Agama who appealed to journalists to help the Commission with information on the schemes, vowed to take regulatory actions on any Ponzi scheme discovered.”The other thing I will also encourage you to do, because its time I mentioned it is that the number of Ponzi schemes in the Nigerian market grows every day.”You can do one thing to help the SEC and to help…
Dr Eric Odo, Chairman, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State, has vowed to arrest parents of any child hawking goods during school hours. Odo said on Monday that he would do his best to reposition public schools in the council area as a strategy to end out-of-school syndrome. Odo spoke during the inauguration of Public School Supervision Committee (PSSC) of the council area, at the council’s headquarters, Ogbede. “The PSSC is headed by Dr Amadi Aroh. Odo charged the PSSC to ensure that out-of- school children would be enroled back to school, adding that the council would provide uniforms,…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has ruled out calling another general election, but said he is “not surprised” some people who did not support his party, Labour, might want a second poll. A petition on Parliament’s website calling for another election has now been signed by more than two million people. “I would like there to be another general election,” it reads. “I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead-up to the last election.” Asked about the petition on ITV’s “This Morning” programme on Monday, Starmer said: “Look, I remind…
Residents of Jahun Local Government Area in Jigawa State are rejoicing after the restoration of power, which had been out for eight years due to vandalism. Some of the residents told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jigawa, that the community’s children aged seven and below, had never experienced electricity in their area. Mr Muhammed Abdullahi, a civil servant, expressed gratitude to the new Chairman and his team for restoring power within a month of assuming office. “We were surprised by the quick restoration, and we appreciate the Chairman’s foresight, as the power outage had driven many…
UNICEF, in collaboration with the Katsina State Government, has organised a capacity building workshop on standard budgeting systems, for the state’s technical implementation team. The 4-day workshop flagged-off in Kano on Monday hinged on Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP), and Medium-Term Sector Strategy (MTSS). The aim is to strengthen the participants’ capacity to migrate to the new budgeting system, ‘programme-based budgeting’ in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a similar training was recently organised for chairmen of the Social Sector Committees of the State House of Assembly. In his presentation, Prof. Olumide Ayodele,…
Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau has presented an appropriation bill of more than N471.134 billion to the State House of Assembly for the 2025 fiscal year. Presenting the bill on Monday in Jos, Mutfwang said that the bill was tagged “Budget of Consolidation and Sustainability”. He explained the presentation was in accordance with section 121, subsection one of the 1999 constitution as amended. He added that the total budget covered recurrent expenditure of more than N201.5 billion, representing 43.5 per cent of the appreciation bill. The governor also explained that the capital expenditure would gulp more than N258 billion, representing…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking Persons (NAPTIP) says it is proposing the establishment of a command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to tackle cases of Violence Against Persons (VAP). The Director-General of the agency, Mrs Binta-Adamu Bello, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja during the 2024 stakeholder’s coordination meeting on implementation of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act 2015 and corresponding state laws. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was supported by Ford Foundation to commemorate the first day of the 2024 Global 16 Days of Activism, an annual campaign to…
Gov. Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno has commenced the distribution of no fewer than 100 trucks of food items donated to the state by President Bola Tinubu in Ngala Local Government Area of the state The distribution took place on Monday at designated centres for residents of Gamboru, Ngala, and other communities, where food supplies were cut off in the last four months due to heavy rainfall and flooding. The grains, which include maize, sorghum and millet, have been distributed to households with priority given to the most vulnerable. Zulum, in his remarks at the flag-off explained that the choice…