Day: February 15, 2024

Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa Chairman/CEO Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has commended Super Eagles Captain, Ahmed Musa for being an exemplary Nigerian Diaspora and a great mentor of Nigerians youths. Speaking while receiving the football player and his delegation in Abuja, Dabiri-Erewa stated that the player has heeded to the mandate of being a good Ambassador,remembering the country and excelling in the art of football. She said Ahmed Musa earned the Commission’s maiden National Diaspora Merit Award in the sports category due to his philanthropic gesture and mentoring of the youths.…

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday ordered security agencies to collaborate with Governors and go after those hoarding foodstuff. The order is coming after an emergency meeting with the 36 State governors earlier today at the presidential Villa. The meeting, though was in response to the current food crisis and insecurity across the nation. Recall that protest erupted in Niger State last week over the rising cost of food items in the country which many have also attributed to hoarding by some middlemen. Also in Kano State, the government had to…

President Bola Tinubu has named Dr. Mansur Kabir as the new Chairman of the board of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control and reappointed its Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Moji Adeyeye. This was contained in a press statement signed by Special Adviser to the President, Ajuri Ngelale and made available to journalists in Abuja on Thursday. According to the statement, the changes were in furtherance of the president’s determination to bring world-class standards to Nigerian public health administration and to manifest his commitment to deliver affordable…

Federal Government has said concerted efforts were ongoing to involve Corps Members in the promotion of community health across the nooks and crannies of the country. It said Corps Members are agents of social change, whose presence in all the 774 Local Government Ares of the country with enviable track records of previous participation in several national assignments cannot be underestimated. The Acting Head of Health Promotion Division in the Federal Ministry of Health, Mrs Ezioma Madu stated this today when she led some staff of the Ministry on an…

The National Youth Service Corps has hinted to Members of the public, especially Prospective Corps Members, Parents and their Guardians that deployment, posting, relocation and other services including kit items and NYSC booklets on security, entrepreneurship among others are issued to Corps Members on arrival at the Orientation Camps at no cost. NYSC further charged relevant stakeholders to beware of some unscrupulous persons that are using online platforms to defraud the unsuspecting Members of the public by advertising NYSC kits that the Scheme gives Corps to Members in Camp. The…