Новости за 05.05.2023

To close the midwives shortage gap in Nigeria by 2030, about 70,000 more midwives are needed, the United Nations Population Fund said. UNFPA made this known in a press statement by its Executive Director, Dr Natalia Kanem issued in commemoration of the 2023 International Day of the Midwife with the theme ‘Together again: from evidence

1,700 await evacuation, says Perm Sec A total of 130 stranded Nigerians arrived in Nigeria at noon in Friday from Port Sudan. The first batch of Nigerian evacuees from Egypt arrived on Wednesday night. Our correspondent learnt that the 130 Nigerians; 128 females and two males, were the first evacuees from Port Sudan and the

Men of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command have arrested a 16-year-old boy, Emmanuel John, over the killing of his father. Our correspondent exclusively gathered that Emmanuel of Madala village, Karshi, Abuja, at about 10 pm on Tuesday, May 2, killed his father using a pestle, during a fisticuff between the deceased and his (Emmanuel’s)

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate has expressed its commitment to ensuring that pensioners across the country are getting their entitlements when due. The Federal Government-owned pension agency said since the inception of the current administration, it had done a lot in making sure that the pension sector was well reformed. The Executive Secretary of PTAD,

The World Health Organisation has announced that COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency The Director General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, while speaking at a media conference on Friday, said the global health body’s international health regulations emergency committee made the decision at its 15th meeting on Thursday. “Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, on Friday, reiterated his administration’s commitment to providing quality and affordable healthcare services in all public health facilities across the state. He stressed that the government would leave no stone unturned in ensuring that all medical facilities in the state were adequately utilised. The governor, who spoke in

The Ogun State Chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Sunday Oginni, has tackled the National Working Committee over his purported expulsion. Oginni said the NWC of the party lacks the power to expel him as a member of the NWC of the party. The NWC of the party had recommended him and his colleague

A Nigerian student at Bangor University, North Wales, United Kingdom, John Nwadiaju, escaped jail by the whiskers after a court handed him a suspended sentence for violently attacking and abusing his wife, Kosisochukwu Echem. According to North Whales Chronicle, on Friday, the 34-year-old was sentenced to 11 months imprisonment, suspended for one year, which included

A Nigerian student at Bangor University, North Wales, United Kingdom, John Nwadiaju, was sentenced to 11 months imprisonment and suspended for one year for violently attacking and abusing his wife, Kosisochukwu Echem. According to North Whales Chronicle, on Friday, the 34-year-old was handed the sentence, which included 250 hours of unpaid work, at the Caernarfon

The monarch of Okeigbo Community in Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State,  Oba Lawrence Babajide, has passed away. The monarch, who was recently sacked by the state High Court over an ineligibility issue, was said to have joined his ancestors at the age of 92. He had, however, challenged his sack at the court

The 10th National Assembly should give particular consideration to the principle of national unity, competency and equity in electing the next set of its principal officers to avoid intractable distrust and crises, the Coalition of United Political Parties advised on Friday. The organisation said that every region and religion and all-round leadership capacity must be

Gombe State Executive Council on Thursday ratified over N1.1bn as the cost of maintaining regional water supply for the year 2022 and an additional N1.2bn for 2023 maintenance. Disclosing this shortly after the 29th Executive Council meeting presided by Governor Muhammadu Yahaya, Commissioner for Water Resources Mijinyawa Yahaya, said the contract would improve water supply

The United Kingdom court has sentenced former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for an organ trafficking plot. The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four years six months while the medical doctor who acted as a ‘middleman’ in the plot, Dr Obinna Obeta, was

Oyekunle Ayansola, a graduate of Interlink Polytechnic, Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State, said it took him 13 years to build an eco-friendly generator so everyone could have a steady power supply. He said his invention was spurred by his parent’s broken marriage 13 years ago and the economic hardship that followed. According to him, the challenges he

United Nigeria Airlines has successfully scaled the International Air Transport Association’s Operational Safety Audit. At the presentation of the IOSA certificate to the airline in Lagos on Thursday, the IATA Manager, West and Central Africa, Dr. Samson Fatokun, commended the airline for successfully completing the rigorous audit processes which have made them at par with

Britain’s ruling Conservatives suffered high-profile losses as results poured in Friday from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s first major electoral test since he took office last year. In the depths of the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades, the local council elections held across swathes of England on Thursday illuminated the main parties’ standing ahead of a

There was panic on Friday after fire gutted some shanties in the popular Alaba International Market in the Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the fire started on Friday morning. It was also learnt that some traders in the market resorted to self-help to put out the fire before the

Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of the Chief of Sayawa land, otherwise called the Gung Zaar-select, Ishaku Komo, and six others over the communal crisis that took place in Sang Village in Bogoro Local Government Area of the State in which a 70-year-old man was killed, many injured and 74 houses and

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has paid tributes to his late boss, ex-President Umaru Yar’Adua, 13 years after his death. Jonathan, who was Yar’Adua‘s deputy, described him as a “great and selfless leader.” In a post shared via his Twitter handle on Friday, he wrote, “On this day thirteen years ago, our nation lost a great

The industrial strike embarked upon by Nigeria Labour Congress in Imo State has entered day three as the whole state continues to witness no electricity supply and ban of flights in and out of the Sam Mbakwe airport, Owerri. NLC national leadership had on Wednesday announced downing of tools following the disruption of the Workers

A total of 130 stranded Nigerians are expected to arrive Nigeria from Port Sudan today (Friday). The first batch of Nigerians evacuees from Egypt arrived on Wednesday night. Our correspondent learnt that the 130 Nigerians; 128 females and two males are the first evacuees from Port Sudan. The flight is expected to arrive in Abuja

The Financial Times has ranked a Nigerian-owned commodities export and trading company, Neveah Limited, as the 18th fastest-growing company in Africa, in its FT/Statista 2023 Africa’s Fastest-growing companies’ list. Neveah ranked high on the list ahead of Julius Berger, Dangote PLC, MTN, Sterling Bank, and Flour Mills, amongst others, in the FT’s May 2, 2023

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 20-year-old man, Solomon Johnson, at the Kirikiri custodial facility for alleged illegal possession of a firearm. The Magistrate, Mrs M. Ayinde, who did not take Johnson’s plea, ordered that the case file should be duplicated and sent to the state Director of Public Prosecutions for advice. Ayinde

…16,113 students to get N331.1m as scholarship No fewer than 21,988 students who scored 50 per cent and above in mock examinations conducted by Gombe State would benefit from the ratification of N417.5m as payment for West Africa Examination Council, National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies and National Business and Technical Examinations Board. Speaking

Several house owners in the Kuntuku V. Extension Layout in the Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja have dragged the Federal Capital Territory Administration to court for demolishing their structures without notice. They also claimed that the FCTA was yet to compensate them after the demolition, lamenting that the situation has worsened their hardship and rendered