By Amos Aar A NON-GOVERNMENTAL organization, Mercy Corps Nigeria, has set up Benue Media Peace Network aimed at brokering peace among communities through the media. The network was formed on Tuesday at the end of a 2-day capacity building training on Conflict Sensitive Reporting for Media Practitioners from Benue, Plateau and Kaduna States, organized by Mercy Corps in collaboration with Interfaith Mediation Centre (IMC) through Community Initiative to Promote Peace (CIPP) project, sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).The training was to equip media practitioners with the required knowledge to report conflicts without inciting more violence. ALSO…
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IT WAS drama on Thursday morning at the Federal Ministry of Works headquarters in Mabushi, Abuja as angry workers locked Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, inside his office in Abuja for several hours as they also switched of power supply in the ministry. Workers discussing in groups outside the ministry as they also locked in the minister. A source, who is a senior staff of theLock in ministry, told National Record that the minister, who resumed very early to his office at the headquarters locked out several workers, including senior, intermediate and junior officers on the ground that they were…
THE NIGERIA Atomic Energy Commission and Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The parties, which agreed to cooperate in the field of nuclear education and development of the Nigerian nuclear industry, signed the agreement on Tuesday. According to Sputnik, the Russian news agency, the agreement was signed within the framework of the 67th session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference in Vienna. Sputnik quoted the press service of the university as saying that Vera Verkhoturova, Advisor to the Rector for External Relations and Abdullahi Mati, Director of the Department of Nuclear…
THE UNITED Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has assured more collaboration with the National Orientation Agency (NOA) on child protection and ending violence against women. Mr Mathew Odono, Director of NOA in Ebonyi, made the assertion while receiving a set of printer, Laser Jet Pro MFP M227fclw from the UNICEF in Abakaliki on Thursday. Odono hailed UNICEF for donating the printer, describing it as “symbolic gift” to their office. The director expressed optimism that the printer would go a long way in encouraging staff to be more committed to the campaigns on child protection in Ebonyi “Of course, we cannot relent…
THE immediate past Chairman of the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA), FCT Chapter, has called for the establishment of veterinary medical centres in all Local Government Areas in the country. Ogbu made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja in commemoration of the World Rabies Day, observed every year on Sept. 28. He said such measure would ensure prompt response to rabies cases at the grassroots and curb it prevalence. The veterinarian said the implication of the move is that veterinary doctors would be at the reach of the populace at grassroots where…
THE TERTIARY Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said that it is addressing plights of some Nigerian lecturers studying in foreign institutions under the TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TSAS) programmes. The assurance was given in statement by the Acting Director, Public Affairs of TETFund, Abdulmumin Oniyangi, in Abuja on Thursday. Oniyangi said the lecturers were requesting for bailout to cater for shortfalls in their living expenses occasioned by fluctuations in foreign exchange. He said the TETfund specifically noted appeals from scholars in Malaysia, India and Kenya, some of who had written to the Minister of Education and the fund, requesting…
WE HAVE been exposing state governments’ status of implementation of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) in alphabetical order. Today, we will be focusing on the status of implementations of Ogun, Ondo and Osun states. Ogun State Ogun State enacted the Ogun State Pension Reform Law in 2008. Amended the law in 2013 to extend its transition period to 2025. The state has put in place other milestones towards full implementation of the CPS including the following: Established two Pension Bureaus, one each for the state’s service and local governments; Has registered employees of the state and local governments with Pension…
By Omole Ibukun, with agency report FOLLOWING National Record’s investigative report on the non-implementation of the provisions of the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, the executive Secretary of the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD), James Lalu, has threatened to seal off facilities that do not comply with the Act’s accessibility clauses. National Record on September 20, 2023 published a detailed investigative report exposing the lack of compliance in line with the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act popularly known as the Disability Act by and the failure of relevant government functionaries, including those directly responsible…
THE MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has relieved the heads of 21 parastatals, agencies, and government companies of the FCT Administration of their appointments with immediate effect. Anthony Ogunleye, Director of Press, Office of the Minister, stated this in a press statement in Abuja on Wednesday. Ogunleye listed the affected heads of the agencies to include; the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Abuja Investment Company Ltd; CEO/Managing Director (MD), Abuja Markets Management Ltd; MD/CEO, Abuja Urban Mass Transport Company; CEO/MD, Abuja Property Development Company; CEO/MD, Abuja Technology Village Free Trade Zone Company; CEO/MD,…
FRANCE’s ambassador to Niger left the country early on Wednesday morning, around one month after the military government ordered his expulsion and days after President Emmanuel Macron said the diplomat would be pulled out and French troops withdrawn. Relations between Niger and France, its former colonial ruler which maintained a military presence in the country to help fight Islamist insurgents, have broken down since army officers seized power in Niamey in July. The junta had ordered French ambassador Sylvain Itte to leave the country within 48 hours at the end of August in response to what they described as actions by France…