By Stephen Gbadamosi The Federal Government has launched an agricultural initiative in Bayelsa State under a programme called “ProjectEarnFromTheSoil.” A statement from the PBAT Media Centre on Monday indicated that the initiative was designed to empower small-holder farmers, fisherfolk, agribusinesses and coastal communities across the South-South. Speaking at the launch of the programme, Senior Special […]
Wife of Enugu State Governor, Mrs. Monica Ugwuanyi is to collaborate with the Initiative for the Support, Care and Rehabilitation of the Mentally Ill Destitutes (INSCREMID) to establish psychiatric clinics in Enugu State Prisons. A retired Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr. George Eze, who is the Chairman of INSCREMID, disclosed this in an interview withjournalists on Sunday. […]
Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has formally flagged off the “one ward one project initiative of his administration aimed at taking development to the grassroots.’ The programme is to run through a bottom to top approach with town unions, stakeholders and traditional rulers in each community being responsible for selecting projects of need. Speaking […]
Campaign to end the incessant clashes between farmers and herders has further been sustained by a Non-governmental organisation (NGO), otherwise known as Global Peace and life Rescue Initiative ( GOPRI ). The push to end the conflict was captured in a one day summit held on Tuesday in Jos the Plateau State capital. In a […]
The Challenge Initiative (TCI), implemented globally by the Gates Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in Nigeria by the Johns Hopkins University Centre for Communication Programs (JHUCCP) signs a Letter of Commitment with Ogun, Kano, Delta, Bauchi and Niger state governments to implement The Challenge Fund Catalytic Grant after a […]
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has commended the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) for detecting pay roll fraud by nine civil servants suspected to be involved in siphoning public funds by inserting fake workers in the payroll of Federal Ministries. The nine suspects were on Wednesday, arraigned before an Abuja High Court […]
To protect children while on the road to and from school, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has called on the various tiers of government to take adequate measures to prevent unnecessary harm. The Minister made the call in Abuja on Friday when he received officials of the Children Accident Prevention Initiative […]
The organised labour and members of civil society groups, have advocated peaceful agitation, centered on change, peaceful revolutions and governance overhaul as key to the much-needed change Nigerians are yearning for. The groups, comprising human rights activists, community-based organisations, students, academics, doctors, internationalists and artisans, said that it is important for Nigerians to understand the […]