UNICEF said introducing subsidies would encourage vulnerable persons in communities to build and use their toilets. Jane Bevan, UNICEF chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Nigeria, said introducing subsidies would encourage vulnerable persons in communities to build and use their toilets. Ms Bevan explained that this would improve their well-being and contribute towards meeting the National Open Defecation Free (ODF) Roadmap in the country before 2025. According to her, this can be introduced during the triggering stages of Community-Led Total Sanitation processes to encourage communities to take ownership of their hygiene. The WASH specialist said that for…
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The Director General, Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Balogun Akin Osuntokun, has dismissed Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai as the proverbial Leopard who cannot change its spots. Osuntokun said this in response to the Kaduna State Governor’s attempt to belittle Obi’s chances at the upcoming Presidential elections. The Campaign DG in a statement in Abuja, on Thursday, noted, that El-Rufai, under whose watch hundreds of innocent citizens lost their lives to bandits in Kaduna, is a champion of ethno-religious bigotry. He said the Kaduna State Governor’s attempt to paint Peter Obi with the brush of ethno-religious bigotry was in fact,…
The Lagos Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mr Olusegun Agbaje has described allegations of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, conniving with the head of Lagos Parks and Garden Mr Musiliu Akinsanya otherwise called MC Oluomo a card-carrying member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as nonsensical. Agbaje who ascribed Nigeria’s major challenge to do-or-die politicians that are all out to undermine the electoral process reiterate that he would never jeopardize the image of the electoral umpire. Speaking during a stakeholder meeting at the INEC’s head office in Lagos on Thursday, Agbaje who insisted that he doesn’t toil with his…
The Director General of the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof Mojisola Adeyeye has raised alarm on the menace of bleaching creams in Nigeria which she says has become a national health emergency. She stated this while delivering a flag-off speech at the Media Sensitization Workshop on Dangers of Bleaching Creams and Regulatory Control organized by the Association of Nigerian Health Journalists in Kano on Thursday. She added that 77% of those engaged in bleaching in Nigeria are women saying this calls for a multifaceted approach in fighting the menace of which she warns of…
Former deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, has denied offering money to buy kidney from an intending donor for his ailing daughter, Sonia. Recall that the lawmaker, his wife, Beatrice, and their 25-year-old daughter are on trial in London for allegedly trafficking a young man from Nigeria to donate kidney. The Ekweremadus were alleged to have offered £7,000 to the 21-year-old trader whom they flew to London and falsely presented as Sonia’s cousin so as to obtain his kidney. But, in his opening addresses at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, lawyers for the defendant, Martin Hicks, insisted they believed the…
Protesters yesterday besieged the headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the office of the Attorney-General of the federation, AGF, over the interim order of the Supreme Court halting the deadline for use of old naira notes. A seven-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice John Okoro, had also yesterday, temporarily restrained the Federal Government from restricting the use of the old naira notes after February 10. The ex-part application was filed by the governors of Kaduna, Kogi, and Zamfara states. Meanwhile, the Federal Government has asked the apex court to dismiss the suit…
The Police Command in Enugu State says it has arrested the woman in a trending video allegedly extorting money before issuing voter cards to their owners. This is contained in a statement by the command Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on Thursday in Enugu. “Police detectives serving in the State Criminal Investigation Department of Enugu State Command on Jan. 31, 2023, arrested a female suspect, one Chinwendu Nnamani, 41. “Nnamani was involved in the viral social media video clip in which she is seen and alleged to be selling INEC Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) at the sum…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that any Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) if snatched by political thugs on election day will be deactivated from backend to become useless for the assailants. INEC said this to assure Nigerians of its readiness ahead of the February 25 and March 11 general elections. The INEC Deputy Director of Information and Communications Technology, Lawrence Bayode made this known on Channels Television’s special election programme, The 2023 Verdict on Wednesday. Bayode said the deactivation of BVAS from backend will ensure that the accreditation and authentication of voters for the…
The Federal Government on Tuesday flagged off the construction of a 132km Kano-Daura-Kongollam dual carriage road worth N115 billion connecting three states of Kano, Jigawa and Katsina States. The project is been financed by the World class conglomerate, BUA Group under the Federal Government road Infrastructure Tax Credit policy. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola while performing the flag-off ceremony in Gwiwa, Kazaure Local Government area of Jigawa state, said the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration concentrated on investment in infrastructure to stimulate the economic development of the nation and job creation. Fashola who decried what…
ABUJA –THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has cancelled the registrations of 817 candidates in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The cancellation came following the discovery by the nation’s tertiary institutions admission body that the candidates engaged in various forms of irregularities while carrying out the registration exercise in various Computer Based Centers, CBT across the country. Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who disclosed this after separate meetings with stakeholders, in Abuja, said the registrations were invalidated over identified infractions bordering on the use of strange biometric fingerprints in the registration process. …