Day: August 9, 2024

The International Human Rights Observatory (IHRO) Africa, NGO, has lauded Gov. Charles Soludo for initiating a progressive youth skills empowerment tagged: “One Youth, Two Skills” Solution Programme in Anambra State. It would be recalled that Soludo had initiated and kick-started the programme two years ago with its first phase of 5,000 youths benefiting from various skills and entreprenurship programmes on the basis of a youth getting engaged to two skills. The governor launched the second-phase programme on Thursday at the International Convention Centre, Awka with shortlisted 8,000 youths beneficiaries to…

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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Thursday, tasked flood prone communities within council areas in Enugu State on building flood prevention and resilience action plans. The Acting Zonal Coordinator of NEMA South-East, Mrs Ngozi Echeazu, gave the task during a sensitization on Proper Waste Management and Flood. Preparedness in Eha-Amufu community within Isi-Uzo LGA of Enugu State. The sensitization, which would be carried out in flood prone communities within three council areas in Enugu State, was organized by NEMA in collaboration with Enugu State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). Echeazu…

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Chief Bode George, former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described as “arrant nonsense”, recent calls by some faceless groups asking Igbo people to leave Lagos. “That type of campaign is ‘arrant nonsense’; it is ‘sheer stupidity,” George told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. The retired army officer, who is a Lagos indigene, spoke on the sideline of an interactive session with the media on the State of the Nation, held at his office in Ikoyi. “It is nonsense. I say it is…

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Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has given details of Wednesday’s night invasion of its headquarters, the Labour House, Abuja by armed security operatives. NLC in a statement, also demanded international inquiry into the traumatic invasion. The statement by its Head, Media and Public Relations, Benson Upah, equally “directed all its staff to stay away from the Labour House for now until we are certain that there are no incriminating materials or harmful substances dropped in our offices by the invading operatives.” It called on the international community to take note of…

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