Abdullahi Mustapha; Harnessing NABDA Potentials To Boost Food Security in Nigeria. BY ABUBAKAR YUSUF. No doubt, the appointment of Professor Abdullahi Mustapha as the Director General, National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA has doused the crises of succession and leadership of the agency, the erudite scholar not long on the mantle of leadership turned what was…
The federal government has approved an upward review of statutory allocation of Universal Basic Education matching grants accessible by state governments for infrastructural projects to Three Billion Five Hundred and Fifty-Four Million Six Hundred and Forty-Two Thousand Five Hundred and Eighty- Four Naira Forty-Six Kobo Only (N3,554,642,584.46). In a statement signed and issued by David…
The Speaker of Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau, has tasked the newly appointed pioneer Deputy Clerks/Permanent Secretaries of the House to enhance discipline among staff and deliver selfless services at all times. This, he said will ensure effective productivity and enhance efficiency and effective service delivery in the legislative institution and…
Edo 2024: Ighodalo, Akoko-Edo PDP leaders close ranks ahead of September electoral victory Reported by Victor Arogunyo. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governorship Candidate in the September 21, 2024 Edo State Governorship Election, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, raced closer to the finishing line of Dennis Osadebe House, through heart-to-heart meeting with the Party’s stalwarts on Friday,12th…
….Lauds Gov Sule for approving the bypass road project The Executive chairman of Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Honourable Aliyu Abdullahi Tashas has explained why the council made a recommendation to the state government towards the construction of some rural roads in across the three districts, stating that the dilapidated Toto bypass…
PTI Matriculates 1793 Students for 2023/2024 Academic Session By Wilson Macaulay The Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) Effurun Delta State today Friday May 31st celebrated the matriculation of 1,793 students for the 2023/2024 academic session. The event, held at the Institute’s Conference Centre, was graced by members of the Governing Council, the Academic Board, invited guests,…
NILDS: Nigeria’s Cambridge and Harvard – Akpabio. The President of the Senate and Chairman of the NILDS Governing Council, His Excellency Distinguished Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, CON, has drawn a parallel between the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) and Cambridge and Harvard Universities. During a historic visit to the state-of-the-art Institute on…
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly’s Joint Committee on Education, Science and Technology, Women Affairs, and Health conducts a public hearing on legislation providing free menstrual hygiene products to public school girls statewide, funded by the state government, along with supporting provisions. Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau, Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, launched…
Oshiomhole: An Avoidable Embarrassment By John Mayaki Penultimate week, one of our leaders and Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, tactically escaped being embarrassed by a daring but frustrated journalist on Channels TV who anchored a flagship program, Politics Today. The journalist told the former governor, “You’re not the one on the…
Dr. ( Mrs) Nanre Emeje, Quintessential astute Administrator, celebrating Nigerian Workers on May Day. The decision to mark May 1 as May Day was taken in memory of Chicago’s Haymarket Affair, which took place in 1886, during a protest in support of workers’ rights. The incident resulted in the death of seven police officers and…