The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has advised Anambra government to as a matter of urgency begin immediate evacuation of people living in the flood prone areas to the emergency shelter centres in the state. Mr Vincent Owen, Director of Planning, Research and Forecasting (NEMA), Abuja, gave the advice onContinue Reading
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for effective implementation of nutrition policy to address malnutrition confronting the country. The Deputy Representative, UNICEF Nigeria, Pernille Ironside made the call at the National Council on Nutrition (NCN) Sub-Committee Meeting on Nutrition Awareness on Saturday in Kano. She stressed the needContinue Reading
A former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Mr Moshood Salvador, on Saturday formally joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), promising to help his new party to multiply its votes in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ex-PDP chairman had onContinue Reading
The All Progressives Congress (APC) youths in Kaduna State on Saturday pledged two million votes to President Muhammadu Buhari and Gov Nasir El-Rufa’i in the 2019 general elections. The youth made the pledge in a communiqué at the end of a summit tagged, “Kaduna State APC Emerging Young Leaders Summit’’,Continue Reading
Former Miss Suzzy Tolofari of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday signed off her maiden name to become Mrs Ufre-Abasi Eduok. The bride and her heartthrob, Mr Ufre-Abasi Eduok, exchanged vows and rings at Fountain of Truth Assembly (FOTA), Lugbe, a suburb of Abuja, the nation’s capital. InContinue Reading
The Director General of Nomadic Affairs, Alhaji Abdullahi Babayo says that the agency has recovered 6,622 cattle in 14 months. Babayo made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Saturday. He said that most of the cattle recovered were not the specieContinue Reading
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Ondo State on Thursday destroyed drugs weighing 110,542 tonnes. Speaking during the exercise in Akure, the Chief Executive of NDLEA, retired Col. Muhammad Mustapha, said drug trafficking and abuse were not abating. Mustapha, represented by his Chief of Staff, Femi Oloruntoba, saidContinue Reading
Dr Olusegun Mimiko, former governor of Ondo state on Thursday, declared to run for president of Nigeria on the platform of the Labour party (LP) in 2019. Mimiko, who declared his intention at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja,expressed concern over what he described as wanton killings inContinue Reading
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said it would welcome Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode into its fold, if he decided to dump the All Progressives Congress. (APC). The Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Taofeek Gani, made the assertion in an interview with the NewsContinue Reading
