The Honourable Minister, Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has given a comprehensive response to speculations and fake news circulating around sums purportedly spent daily on the provision of take home rations under the modified Home Grown School Feeding programme. The Honourable Minister made the clarifications while speaking on Monday August […]

The recent revelations on the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) may have come as a surprise to many Nigerians, but it is not a shocking development for Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. Governor Wike believes the agency has since deviated from its original mandate and has become a source of wealth for […]

Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei has appeared before a House of Representatives committee investigating financial misappropriation within the agency. A petition has been addressed to the Senate alleging that the Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission mismanaged N6.25bn set aside for COVID-19 palliatives. In a letter dated August […]

Poised not to yield to blackmail by a segment of the stakeholders opposed to the new code, the Federal Government has unveiled the new amendment to the 6th Edition of the Broadcasting Code. The Federal Government maintained that the amended code was in the national interest and government would kickstart its implementation. Hence, as it […]

Dr Elijah Mohammed, Registrar, Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) says the council has sealed 808 illegal pharmaceutical premises during the month of July. Mohammed made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, while giving an update of the council’s activities in July. He said that out of the […]

In a call for greater support for the practice of breastfeeding,  the World Health Organization WHO  disclosed that the risk of COVID-19 infection from breastfeeding is negligible and has never been documented. The appeal, according to UN reports  during World Breastfeeding Week, comes as WHO warned that not using mother’s milk is linked to 820,000 child deaths a year, […]