From Our Correspondent The Edo Government has domesticated the National Animal Identification and Traceability System (NAITS) to create a database of livestock and other information on production for traceability in the state. The state government launched NAITS during the fifth National Animal Husbandry Development Committee (NAHDC) meeting held in Benin on Tuesday. NAITS is an […]
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, has reacted to the “horrible views” that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres expressed at a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday, and called for his resignation. Amb. Erdan described Guterres’ remarks as “shocking” for stating that the Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel by Hamas “did not […]
From Our Correspondent Malam Ali Muhammad Ali, the new Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), has pledged to accord the deserved support to the editorial operations of the agency. Ali made the pledge during his maiden meeting with the management and staff of the agency, on Tuesday, in Abuja. “The main pillar […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke In the UNESCO publication, Banerjee and Seneviratne acknowledged that structures governing PSB vary considerably between nations. Their reference to the composition of the BBC Board of Governors is quite revealing and exemplary. In the United Kingdom, the BBC has been constituted as a largely autonomous legal entity with a Board of Governors […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde Thousands of Nigerians under the aegis of the Conference of Islamic Organisations (CIO) rallied at the weekend in Lagos to call on the United Nations to ask Israel to cease its bombing of Gaza and other areas. They lament that the indiscriminate destructions have brought horror not just to the Palestinians but […]
Palestinian administrative detainee, Omar Daraghmeh died mysteriously in Megiddo Prison Monday night, the Palestinian Information Centre reported. Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Society announced in a joint statement. They said the Israeli occupation arrested 58-year-old Daraghmeh with his son Hamza, on Oct. 9. The Israeli Occupation placed them under administrative detention – without […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke Last week, the Federal Government, through a press release from the Presidency announced sweeping changes in the leadership of the federal public service information system. The news organisations included the Voice of Nigeria (VON), the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON and the Nigerian Press Council. […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde The Decade of Gas plan is the most comprehensive plan to restore efforts towards fully harnessing Nigeria’s vast gas resources and ensure a reliable global supply of clean energy, the Managing Director of Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), Dr Philip Mshelbila, has said. Mshelbila made this remarks when a delegation from the European […]
From Our Correspondent The funeral rites of passage for the paramount ruler in Okeagbe Akoko, Ondo State, the Ajana Afa of Okeagbe, Oba Oladunjoye Fajana would begin on Nov. 22. In a statement on behalf of the family, Prince Niyi Fajana said the programme would last for one week to bid a proper farewell to […]
A U.S. State Department official has resigned in protest of the Joe Biden administration’s “blind support” for Israel in its ongoing conflict with Hamas. Josh Paul was working in the bureau that oversees U.S. arms transfer to foreign nations. He has worked in the department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs for more than 11 years. He […]