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Kwali council moves to tackle polio rejection

The coordinator of Primary Healthcare, PHC, services in charge of Kwali area council, Dr. Samuel Adudu, has said that the council has taken measures to tackle polio rejection in the area. 

He disclosed this to The Abuja Inquirer while assessing the just concluded immunization plus days hel [...]

ARSD trains 90 persons on organic agriculture

 In order to promote consumption of healthy food in the Federal Capital Territory, the Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat, ARDS, has trained no fewer than 90 persons in organic agriculture.

Agriculture and Rural Development Secretary, Hon. Stanley Nzekwe, during presentation of [...]

Sen. Sani commends FCTA on rail transport

Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Senator Shehu Sani, has commended the FCT Administration over the success achieved on the Abuja Light Rail project, saying it has put Abuja in good stead and in conformity with other cities of the world. 

Sani made the commendation whe [...]

U.S. Institute faults The Economist, Says Buhari likely to win

The United States Institute of Peace, USIP, has faulted The Economist magazine forecast on the 2019 election, positing that President Muhammadu Buhari will likely defeat his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The USIP said it arrived at the report b [...]

COE Zuba: FCTA abandons multi-million naira projects · Projects ongoing, FCTA insists

In spite of millions of naira ploughed into projects at the FCT College of Education Zuba, the tertiary institution is littered with several abandoned projects consisting of blocks of classrooms, hostels and half constructed roads.

Though the Federal Capital Territory Administration insists tha [...]

Nurses, midwives protest in Delta over appointments

The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives Delta State branch has protested what they say are ambiguities in some appointments by the Local Government Service Commission.

At a protest led by state chairman and secretary of the body, Comrade Jegede Ikpena and Comrade Okoh F.A, respe [...]

Two Nigerian NGO bag $25k U.S refugee fund award

Two Nigerian organisations - Centre for Caring, Empowerment and Peace Initiative, CCEPI, and Initiatives for the Empowerment of Vulnerable Persons in the Society, have received the funds in response to the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, PRM, call for program recommendations for the 201 [...]

Labour insists, no court will stop our strike

The organised labour has insisted that no going back on its planned nationwide strike slated to commence on Nov. 6 in spite an order of the National Industrial Court against it.

President, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr Ayuba Wabba, said the congress was unaware of any court ruling.

Th [...]