The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have called for immediate and unimpeded access to deliver medicines and other life-saving supplies to millions of people in need of aid, including 300 000 people displaced in the last two months alone in Afghanistan. A statement by WHO made available to journalists said this is amidst the...

The former director public affairs (DPA), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mr. Tony Ojobo, has condoled with the family of the late former chairman of NCC board, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, describing him (Joda) as a quintessential technocrat with eyes for details. In a statement he personally signed, Ojobo said Joda’s tenure as the chairman of NCC board of commissioners gave birth...

The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has called for improved synergy among research institutes, educational institutes (universities, polytechnics) and the organised private sector in order to develop research findings into commercialized goods and services.  He made the call when he visited the Ekulu erosion site and Projects Development Institute (PRODA)Training School, Enugu State at the weekend.  Onu...

The Federal Government recently approved the commercial release of the first genetically modified food crop, the Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) Cowpea, popularly called SAMPEA 20T. In this interview with NKECHI ISAAC, Dr. Issoufou Kollo, the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) regional director, reveals the demand for the seeds is getting higher as farmers are very impressed with the performance...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has attributed the high mortality of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country to the lack of reliable data for statistical analyses which leads to multiple taxation of the enterprises. Speaking at the first Abuja SME conference and exhibition with the theme ‘Solution strategies for resolving tax, regulatory, packaging and logistics challenges facing SMEs in...

The board of the Nigerian Communications Commission has paid an official condolence visit to the family of Ahmed Joda, former board chairman of the commission in his country home in Yola, Adamawa State. Joda passed on Friday, August 13, 2021, at the age of 91.  The delegation, which was led by the chairman of NCC board, Prof. Adeolu Akande included...

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has expressed full commitment to the implementation of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) to promote a digital Nigeria. The director-general of NITDA, Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi, made this commitment in his goodwill message at the virtual commissioning of eight digital economy projects for a digital Nigeria, which was the 12th batch...

The Federal Government has trained castor farmers drawn from the 44 local government areas in Kano on new production techniques and good agricultural practice. The training, which was organised by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), was held on Thursday in Kano. The permanent secretary, FMARD, Mr. Ernest Umakhihe, said the training was part of efforts to attain...

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has hailed the recent appeal court's judgment affirming its operatorship of the Oil Mining License 11 (OML 11), describing it as a huge victory for Nigeria and the beginning of addressing decades of host community restiveness.   The appeal court sitting in Abuja on Monday upturned the August 23, 2019 ruling of the Federal High...

The group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has charged members of the board of the NNPC Greenfield Refinery Limited (NGRL), to explore all available options to bring an end to the current challenge of petroleum products importation.  He gave the charge Thursday while inaugurating the board of the newly incorporated subsidiary of the...