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WHO Faces Over $500 Million Salary Gap, Set To Reduce Workforce
The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing a salary shortfall exceeding $500 million for the upcoming biennium, prompting significant cost-cutting measures across the organization, according to its Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus. Speaking at the high-level welcome of the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva on Monday, Dr. Ghebreyesus outlined the financial constraints and organizational restructuring underway. This year’s Assembly is...
Imo Unfortunate To Have Bad Leadership – YPP Guber Candidate, Opara
The Young Progressives Party, YPP, governorship candidate for the November 11 election in Imo State, Mr. Kemdi Opara has expressed dissatisfaction with the leadership quality in the State. Opara made the assertion on Sunday in Owerri, Imo State capital, when he engaged journalists in an interactive session regarding the future of Imo State. Speaking on his political drive for the forthcoming...
Sun FM 91.3 Igbere To Hold 2nd Anniversary And Awards December 7
Sun FM 91.3 Igbere will on Saturday, December 7, celebrate 2 years of intentional, professional and ethical commitment to radio broadcasting. This was made known by Stanley Mba, the station Manager who also doubles as Head of News. Addressing newsmen, Mba said the event tagged "Sun FM Igbere 2nd Anniversary and Awards" will be held at the station premises, near Camp...
Pan-African Parliament Declares Support For Victims Of Flooding In Nigeria
Conference of Speakers of Pan-African Parliament (PAP) under the African Union (AU) has declared solidarity with the victims of flood disasters in Nigeria and others affected by similar tragedies on the African continent. The Conference expressed their sympathy and support in a statement signed by the President of Pan-African Parliament (PAP), Hon. Chief Fortune Zephania Charumbira at the ongoing 12th...
Presidency Disagrees With World Bank’s Poverty Report
The Presidency has disputed the latest economic report by Nigeria’s biggest multilateral lender, the World Bank, which estimated that 139 million citizens were living in poverty, describing the figure as “unrealistic” and detached from the country’s economic realities. President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, said in a post on his official X handle on...
I’m Confident Of Tinubu’s Ability To Deliver – Aisha Buhari
The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has expressed confidence in the ability of Nigeria’s President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, to deliver a country where unity, peace and progress are sustained. In a congratulatory message, which she personally signed on Wednesday in Abuja, the first lady expressed optimism that Tinubu would work assiduously to deliver Nigeria a dream of our founding...
Kidnapped Corps Member Released After ₦1.1M Ransom
Rofiat Lawal, a member of the National Youth Service Corps, was abducted Tuesday along the Benin-Ore Expressway but was freed after her family paid a N1.1 million ransom. PUNCH Online reports that Lawal was kidnapped while en route to Ibadan, Oyo State, from Benin, Edo State, to resume at her place of primary assignment. The abductors were said to have demanded...
KANO: Trouble For Ganduje As Anti-Graft Agency Confirms 2018 Dollar Videos, Summons Ex-Gov
Abdullahi Ganduje, the immediate-past governor of Kano State, has reportedly been called by the state's anti-corruption agency in connection with a 2018 video purportedly showing him receiving bribes from contractors hired by his administration. In October 2018, an online publication, Daily Nigerian, uploaded video recordings supposedly captured by a spy camera showing Ganduje allegedly accepting wads of dollar bills from...
Uzodike Urges IPOB, Ndigbo To Stop Actions That Will Increase Their Marginalisation
Foremost industrialist, Chief Dr Ajulu Uzodike, yesterday said that Ndigbo can still do better and live above their obvious marginalization in Nigeria if they refrain from actions that also worsen their marginalization by the Federal government of Nigeria. Speaking with Vanguard in an interview in his house in Otolo Nnewi, Anambra State, Chief Uzodike also said that Igbo do not...
Give Me 94th Birthday Gift By Releasing Nnamdi Kanu To Me, Mbazuluike Amaechi Begs FG
statesman and first Republic Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amechi, yesterday, expressed sadness over the alleged Federal government refusal to heed to his advice on the solution to the perceived insecurity in southeast. Chief Amechi, who turns 9...
