The World Health Organisation (WHO) with funding from USAID and the government of Germany has distributed severe acute malnutrition kits to over eight non- governmental organisations (NGOs) for tackling malnutrition amongst 6000 children in three Northeast states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.The WHO emergency manager for humanitarian response in Borno,
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Local contractors in the Niger Delta region, have alleged that international oil companies (IOCs) operating in the region are indebted to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), to the tune of over $800 million.The contractors include the Niger Delta Indigenous Contractors Association (NDICA) and the Association of NDDC Contractors (ANC).Addressing
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As tension refused to abate following communal clashes which have led to killings and destruction of properties in some oil producing communities of Akwa Ibom State, the deputy governor, Senator Akon Eyakenyi, has intervened and sued for peace.Determined to find a lasting solution to the boundary skirmishes, Senator Eyakenyi, has
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Bayelsa State governor Douye Diri, has sworn in Justice Matilda Abrakasa Ayemieye as the fourth substantive chief judge of the state after serving in acting capacity for about six months.The swearing-in ceremony took place yesterday at the Executive Council Chambers of Government House, Yenagoa, where the oaths of allegiance and
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Federal and Edo State governments have through the National Animal Identification and Traceable System (NAITS), a scheme under the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, developed a partnership that would check herders/farmers clashes and other vices that have led to killings, kidnapping, destruction of farms and others.At a stakeholders’ engagement in Benin
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Uchechukwu Okoroafor, AbujaInsecurity and sit-at-home protests in the South-East have led to massive economic losses estimated at almost N4 trillion in two years.A 2021 study conducted by SBM Intelligence for DevEast Foundation Ltd., a not-for-profit policy and business advocacy organisation, shows that the losses can be traced to specific factors
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Justice Adamu Muazu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday ordered the Department of State Service (DSS) to charge the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, to Court within the next one week or release him on administrative bail.Justice
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The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has suspended Max Air from domestic operations indefinitely.This was contained in a letter signed by director, operations training & licensing, Ibrahim Dambazau, on behalf of the Director-General of the authority, Musa Nuhu.The letter, with reference number NCAA/DG/AIR/11/16/363, the NCAA directed the suspension of Parts
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Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) said it will create no fewer than 10,000 jobs for youths in the Niger Delta region, through the Holistic Opportunity Project of Engagement (HOPE), code-named 'Project Hope.'NDDC managing director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, who disclosed this while flagging-off the project at the commission's headquarters in Port
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Borno State governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has said that his administration has enrolled thousands of out- of - school girls in an ongoing target of admitting 500,000 girls into public primary schools across the state.Zulum stated this on Tuesday when he hosted the United Nations deputy secretary general, Amina Mohammed,
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