The programme seeks to help vulnerable and out-of-school children. The Federal Government has commenced the implementation of the At-Risk-Children Programme, ARC-P in Sokoto State. At least 60,000 street children and vulnerable young people are expected to benefit from the first phase of the programme. ARC-P, an initiative of the Federal Government of Nigeria, is designed […]
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As the clock ticks towards the 2023 general election, governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, has assured that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential flag-bearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, remain the best option to rescue the country. The chairman of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaigns Council, who spoke in Uyo, the state capital, noted […]
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Kenya: Huduma Kenya Extends Working Hours
Nairobi — Huduma Centers will operate from 7:00am to 7:00pm from the previous 8am to 5pm hours commencing December 5 2022. This is one of the six interventions promised by the Public Service, Gender and Affirmative Action CS Aisha Jumwa recently, so as to advance Public Service Delivery and Transformation through the Huduma Kenya Service […]
Nairobi — Kenya Wine Agencies Limited (KWAL), SCANAD Kenya emerged winners at the Marketers Awards that was held Friday 2022, at the Sarit Expo Centre in Nairobi. KWAL’s Kibao Vodka Tru Watu Tru Campaign was recognized as the best marketing campaign this year after receiving the Judges Choice Award at the MSK Gala and Awards […]
Nairobi — The Hustler Fund kitty has so far disbursed Sh3.6 billion according to latest released by Ministry of Cooperatives and Micro Small and Medium Enterprises. The date shows that to date 10.6 million have registered for the Hustler Fund, and sh 190 million has since been paid back by Hustler Fund borrowers. The Hustler […]
Angry residents of Urua Ekpa community in Itu local government area of Akwa Ibom State have started mobilisation for a mass protest in connection with the death of one Marvelous, a construction worker, who was buried under the collapsed underground drainage system undertaken by Benest Engineering Ltd, at the weekend. It was gathered that human […]
Embu — President Dr. William Ruto has said that the Government will launch the construction of an affordable housing project in Embu County in January 2023. The President who spoke during an Interdenominational thanksgiving service held at the University of Embu grounds, said that the Government will roll out the construction of 5,000 houses under […]
Nairobi — Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Vice Chairperson Juliana Cherera has opted to resign from polls agency rather than face a tribunal that was to probe her conduct alongside three commissioners over events of the August 9 polls. Through a resignation letter addressed to President William Ruto on Monday, Cherera said “It is […]
Abuja — It was a battle of ideas, yesterday, at the third in a series town hall meeting, organised by the Arise News Channel and its partners, where three of the leading presidential candidates – the Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party’s Peter Obi and the New Nigeria Peoples Party’s Rabiu Kwankwaso – took […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday said it offered treasury bills amounting to N7.33 trillion in the first half of the year (H1 2022) while total public subscriptions amounted to N10.94 trillion. The bank also stated that the total outstanding FGN domestic debt stock amounted to N20.91 trillion, representing an increase of N3.28 trillion […]
Abuja — President Muhammadu Buhari, has called for quick implementation of ECOWAS action plan against terrorism and other crimes in West Africa. The president, who canvassed this position in his welcome address at the 62nd Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Abuja, yesterday, stressed that there is the […]
Zenith Bank Plc has emerged as ‘Bank of the Year in Nigeria’ in The Banker’s Bank of the year awards 2022. The award, which was announced by The Banker Magazine, Financial Times Group, United Kingdom, during an awards ceremony held in London, on December 1, 2022, was in recognition of Zenith Bank’s strong management, sound […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over the failure to probe the spending of trillions of ecological funds by governments at all levels–federal, state and local governments – from 2001 to date, and to ensure the prosecution of suspected perpetrators of corruption and mismanagement of public […]
The terrorists have intensified their attacks in rural communities of the state. Thirteen worshippers are still being held in terrorists’ camps after they were abducted from a local mosque on Saturday night in Maigamji village of Funtua town in Katsina State. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the terrorists invaded the mosque around to 8 p.m. and […]
Cape Town — Disaster Strikes Baptism at Jukskei River as 15 Church Members Drown Fifteen members of the Baptist Church were swept away after a flash flood in the Jukskei River in Bramley on Saturday afternoon. The City of Johannesburg’s emergency management has confirmed that a total of nine bodies were recovered of 15 […]
The noble and urgent quest to reclaim the lost glory of Lagos State and also recover its mortgaged future is on track with Labour Party Governorship Candidate Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour leading the charge. It is a movement of an idea whose time has come, of a real change long overdue, to rescue an excellently endowed state […]
The Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, and Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, weekend painted a grim picture of the health sector in the country. While MDCAN said Nigeria will need 12,000 doctors annually to adequately address health problems in the country, the NMA noted that it will take the country at least 25 […]
The Muhammadu Buhari government hardly takes responsibility for its failings. It is very well known for making grandiose promises and shifting blames to other parties. Up till date, the regime keeps blaming “previous regimes” even after almost eight years it was given to fix problems that it met. After the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting […]