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Gender Based Violence: Organised Labour Urged To Open Centre For Report
The organised labour in Nigeria has been urged to open space for gender-based violence reference centres where survival of gender-based violence and harassment would report to.
The call was made in Abuja on Friday by the Solidarity…
US unveils mother-to-child HIV prevention campaign in Lagos
The United States (U.S.) Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the Community Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission (cPMTCT) programme in Lagos to support a healthier population in Nigeria.
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Sweden’s parliament approves first female prime minister
Swedish parliament elected Magdalena Andersson as the country's first female Prime Minister.
Amineh Kakabaveh, an independent lawmaker who supported Andersson, noted that Sweden is currently celebrating the 100th anniversary of a…
Eid-al-Maulud: President Buhari Felicitates With Nigerians
President Muhammadu Buhari is felicitating with the Muslim Ummah, Nigerians of all faiths and the followers of Islam all over the world on the occasion of the Maulud-Un-Nabiyy, the birthday of the Holy Prophet Muhammad Peace Be…
World Food Day: Experts seek robust food system to reduce malnutrition
The Executive Director, Spectra Industries Ltd., Mrs Remi Kuteyi, has urged the federal and state governments to build a better food system that would be resilient to increasing volatility and climate change.
Kuteyi said this on…
WFD: FAO calls for research and development to advance agriculture
By Ene Okwanihe
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has called for targeted interventions on Research and Development to make farming more technologically advanced.
The FAO Representative to Nigeria and the…
WFD: Livestock plan to address insecurity bedeviling agriculture in Nigeria
By Ene Okwanihe
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Nigeria says the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) would address all the problems associated with livestock production activities, and guarantee adequate…
WFP Warns of food ration cut for IDP’s in north east Nigeria
Ene Okwanihe, Abuja
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that it may soon have to cut food rations to more than half a million women, men and children in north-eastern Nigeria if funding is secured to continue support…
Pandemic delays ending world hunger 2030- UN
The pandemic has made the world more vulnerable to food insecurity, this is the message left by the director-general Qu Dongyu, of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO.
Dongyu stated that the effects of the pandemic had pushed…