Breathe is Life — Africa Urged to Integrate Lung Health Into Primary Healthcare
By Sharon Akuboh The world’s first lung health resolution: mobilising a network of advocates in Africa For millions of people across Africa, every breath can be a struggle, as respiratory diseases, air pollution and limited access to diagnosis and treatment threaten lives. But experts say a negative tuberculosis test should not be the end of…
Omga007The Sun Politics Editor, Fred Itua, defends PhD thesis in Development Communication
The Politics Editor of The Sun Newspaper, Fred Itua, has successfully defended his doctoral thesis in Mass Communication, with a major in Development Communication, at Veritas University, Abuja. The doctorate will be officially conferred on Itua at the university’s convocation in November this year. This will make him one of the few PhD holders who…
Nigeria Calls for Stronger, Self-reliant African Peace and Security Architecture
Nigeria has called for a stronger, better funded and self-reliant African peace and security architecture capable of addressing Africa’s evolving security challenges. The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, made the call in her remarks at the opening ceremony of the Consultative Forum on Strengthening the Functional Performance of the African Union Peace…
NEPC urges Ebonyi to establish hides, skins Processing Centre
By Nkechinyere Ewa The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has urged the Ebonyi State Government to establish hides and skins processing facilities to create jobs, increase traders’ earnings and boost the state’s participation in the non-oil export market. The council also called on hides and skins dealers to formalise their businesses, form cooperatives and adopt…
ASUU plants trees to combat climate change at AEFUNAI
Nkechinyere Ewa The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike (AEFUNAI), Ebonyi State branch, has launched a tree-planting campaign to mitigate the effects of climate change and promote environmental sustainability on campus. The branch chairperson, Comrade Louis Omenyi, said the initiative was in line with a directive by the union’s National…
Wike To INEC : Enforce Issue-Based Campaigns, Hold Politicians Accountable
By Remi Johnson The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory , FCT, Mr Nyesom Wike, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to hold political parties and candidates accountable for inflammatory campaign rhetoric. Wike made the call while criticising the alleged remarks by former Minister of Transportation and African Democratic Congress, ADC, chieftain,…
Wike Introduces “No Work, No Pay,” Says NLC Strike Politically Motivated
By Remi Johnson The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mr Nyesom Wike, has directed the six area councils in the territory to enforce the “No Work, No Pay” policy against striking workers, insisting that the industrial action declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, is politically motivated. Wike who stated this during an…
Late filing of SERAP’s brief Stalls Hearing in their Appeals Against ₦101m Judgment Debt
The planned hearing by the Court of Appeal, Abuja of the appeals filed the Incorporated Trustees of the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare was stalled on Friday owing to the appellants’ late filing of their briefs. The two appeals, filed by SERAP and Oluwadare, are against the May…