2080 young doctors bag scholarship from Merck Foundation
By Ebere Agozie Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, has over the past years provided well over 2000 scholarships to young doctors from 50 countries. Senator Rasha…
PCRC Bwari sensitises 300 students on security, dangers of social media
By NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA Abuja, Oct. 20, 2024 (NAN) The Police Community Relations Community (PCRC), Bwari Division in the Federal Capital Territory has sensitised over 300 secondary school students…
Stakeholders raise concerns inhibiting rural women farmers
A panel of leaders in women’s empowerment and agriculture, have raised critical concerns impacting rural women farmers in the country. They raise the concerns during the Women’s Empowerment and Agribusiness…
500 women in barracks to benefit from free cancer screening – DEPOWA President
By Sumaila Ogbaje Mrs Oghogho Musa, the President, Defence and Police Officers’ Wives Association (DEPOWA), has promised to extend free breast cancer screening to 500 barracks women during the 2024…
APC stakeholders endorse power sharing in Kokona West LG
“… as Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly says he will organize general meeting for entire Kokona LG stakeholders on issue of power sharing which has been their…
NEMA receives 103 Nigerians deportees from Turkiye
By NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA A total of 103 Nigerians deported from the Republic of Turkiye back to Nigeria were received by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and other…
Group calls for protection of street children against cholera
By NAN The Almajiri Child Rights Initiative (ACRI), an NGO, has called for urgent action to protect the street children from contracting cholera. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports…
Nigerian pilgrim from Jigawa State returns lost 10,500 Russian Rubies, $800, other currencies in Makkah
Malam Abba Limawa, 52, a Nigerian pilgrim from Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State, has returned 10,500 Russian rubles, 800 dollars and 690 Saudi Riyals, he found, to the…
Plateau State pilgrim dies in Saudi Arabia
Mr Ismaila Musa, a pilgrim from Plateau, has passed on in Makka, Saudi Arabia. This is contained in a statement issued by Alh. Daiyabu Dauda, the Executive Secretary, Plateau State…
Tinubu inaugurates, names FCT’s arterial road N20 after Wole Soyinka
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday inaugurated the Arterial Road N20, which runs from Northern Parkway to Outer Northern Expressway (ONEX) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Arterial Road N20…