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French Embassy Advocates Regular Exercise for Enhanced Cardiovascular Health

French embassy physical health experts have emphasised the importance of maintaining a consistent exercise regimen to promote better cardiovascular health. During the October edition of the ‘Fitness Core’, they outlined how regular physical activity can significantly reduce the risk of heart-related diseases and improve overall well-being. Addressing newsmen, a lead partner from Paragonx, Abayomi Gbenga […]

DIGISOL Project Advocates Stakeholders’ Collaboration On Digital Innovation

Digital Solutions, also known as DIGISOL Project funded by the European Union towards enhancing rural agricultural practices through digitalization, has advocated public-private collaboration in achieving sustainable digital innovation hub in the country. DIGISOL Project, during a two-day workshop it organised for stakeholders at the University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (UAES), Umuagwo, Imo State, also […]

Again, Abia Records Increase In Environmental Sanitation Defaulters

  Abia State has witnessed increased arrests of environmental sanitation exercise defaulters, as it recorded 95 last Saturday. ‎This is even as the government has declared a state of emergency on sanitation and reintroduced sanitary inspectors across the state. ‎Speaking to newsmen after the exercise in Umuahia, the state capital, the commissioner for the Environment, […]

Princewill, Asari Lift Entrepreneurs, Students In Rivers Community With N110m

  Newly installed traditional head of Da-Ogo Polo in Buguma, Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill and the Amanyanabo of the Source, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, have raised the sum of N110 million for the community’s development fund.Thedevelopment fund will be used to support entrepreneurs and students from the community, who are in various tertiary institutions. The […]

Akwa Ibom Govt Didn’t Withdraw Ex-Governor Emmanuel’s Security – Commissioner

  Akwa Ibom State commissioner for Information, Hon. AniekanUmanah, has dismissed as “inflammatory and concocted lies,” a media report accusing Governor Umo Eno of having an irreconcilable political disagreement with his immediate predecessor, Mr Udom Emmanuel. The alleged political rift linked to the crucial 2027 polls, according to the report, has festered to a near […]

Varsity Trains Youths in Tomatoes/Pepper Production, Processing

  Twenty-three youths from the host communities of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, have been trained in hands-on skills in cultivating tomato and peppers for value addition through processing. The university organised the training in collaboration with the Science and Technical Committee of the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology and the Hope […]

Experts Call For Prompt Response To Tackle Global Health Challenges

  Biosafety and biosecurity experts in Nigeria  have advocated  a shared responsibility, prevention, detection, prompt response and multi-sectoral approaches to tackle global health challenges. They stated that global health security also requires collective efforts to prevent, detect and respond to public health threats. They made the assertions during the 8th Nigerian Biological Safety Association (NIBSA) […]

Yobe SPHCB, UNICEF Engage Media Practitioners On Integrated Measles Rubella, Polio, Others Campaign

The Yobe State Primary Healthcare Board, with the support from UNICEF has successfully engaged media practitioners ahead of the integrated measles rubella, polio, malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) campaign scheduled for Oct. 18 to Oct. 23 across the state. The engagement which has participants from across various media including public […]