The Biden administration declared its “strong support” Friday for former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to serve as the World Trade Organization’s next director-general. The decision breaks with the Trump administration’s opposition to Okonjo-Iweala and brings the U.S. in line with much of the rest of the world. It will also allow the WTO to…
Media practitioners have been challenged to up the ante in their reportage by also educating the people on how to protect themselves in times of outbreak of diseases as in the case of COVID-19. World Health Organization (WHO) health Emergency Communications specialist Chima E. Onuekwe spoke yesterday at a one-day sensitization meeting of Media Personnel…
FCT MINISTER 1. “The APC Administration has since 2015 brought tremendous changes to Nigeria.” These were the words of the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello during a courtesy visit by the Chairman and members of the FCT APC Membership Revalidation and Registration Committee which took place on Thursday, February 4th 2021. 2. Malam Bello added that this…
The Interim Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Efiong Akwa, has stressed the need for peace and security to create the necessary environment for the rapid development of the Niger Delta region. Akwa stated this when a delegation from the Nigerian Navy Hydrographic School paid him a courtesy visit at the NDDC…
Incessant terrorist attacks have forced residents of four local governments in Borno to flee into Yobe communities, the police have revealed. The local governments, according to Yobe State Police Command are Gubio, Magumeri, Kaga and Konduga. A statement on Thursday by Dungus Abdulkarim, the Police Public Relations Officer, Yobe State Police Command, said large movement…
