OmoBarca Community Cup kicks off with excitement as organizers release week one highlights and week two fixtures The much-anticipated OMOBARCA Community Cup commenced last Sunday with an electrifying atmosphere as players, officials, and supporters turned out in large numbers to witness the kickoff of the grassroots football tournament. The openingContinue Reading
FlowerbudNews/ Dr Adebowale Adedokun, Director-General, Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), says Nigeria needs sustainable procurement to reduce waste, promote social equity, minimise environmental harm and strengthen governance and transparency. He spoke on Monday at the International Conference on Sustainable Procurement. The event was organised by the Sustainable Procurement, Environmental and SocialContinue Reading
Flowerbed News/ National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) announced in Abuja on Tuesday that enforcement of the total ban on sachet and small PET bottle alcohol will begin January 2026. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said this at a press conference, reaffirming the agency’s unflinching commitmentContinue Reading
Flowerbud News/ The FCT Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board (MPWB) has fixed Dec. 1st as deadline for the payment by intending pilgrims for the 2026 hajj. The Public Relations Officer of the Board, Muhammad Aliyu, in a statement in Abuja, said the Board has also released the reversed fare for Hajj.Continue Reading
Flowerbud News/ Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun will present the 2026 draft budget before the State House of Assembly on Wednesday. Mr Adewale Egbedun, Speaker of the Assembly, made this known at the plenary session on Tuesday in Osogbo. Egbedun said the governor had forwarded a letter to the assemblyContinue Reading
FlowerbudNews/ A university don, Prof. Amidu Sanni, has described U.S. President Donald Trump’s war rhetoric against Nigeria as “the misadventure of a reckless outburst.” Sanni, the immediate past Chief Imam of Lagos State University, who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday inContinue Reading
By Rachael Abujah The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) reports significant progress in Rivers State’s Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, achieving more than 95 per cent HIV testing acceptance among pregnant women between 2020 and 2023. Dr Stanley Idakwo, Project Director of the Rivers ASPIRE Project atContinue Reading
By Mohammed Baba Busu The former Secretary to the Niger Government, Prof. Mohammed Kuta-Yahaya says Gov. Mohammed Umaru Bago has now put the state on a global map. “Bago is taking Niger to greater heights and it is now at par with its contemporaries across the globe,” the Pro-Chancellor ofContinue Reading
By Mohammed Baba Busu Bar. Mohammed Mohammed-Ndarani, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), the Hukunchi Nupe, has urged the people of Niger to vote massively for all All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in the Nov. 1 chairmanship and councillorship elections. Ndarani who made the appeal in an interview with News AgencyContinue Reading
