Beneficiaries of Lafarge Africa’s CSR footprints in Mfamosing and adjoining Communities in Cross River State have praised the leading building solutions company for the Impact of its Skills Acquisition and Empowerment Programme. The beneficiaries who were carefully nominated by the leaders of their host communities undergo intensive training in mechanical engineering, welding and fabrication, aluminum…
Trust African News, By Ruth Adedolapo The National Population Commission (NPC) has vehemently denied the supposed recruitment exercise currently going on, as it says it is not doing any recruitment exercise at this moment. The body, in a statement warns the general public to be wary of such notice on social media, saying it is…
Deeper Christain Life Ministry, DCLM, has said the comments by its General Superintendent, Pastor William Kumuyi, on the Muslim-Muslim ticket during a recent media chat in Ilorin, was not a political commentary aimed at attacking any personality in the country. The Church which made the clarification in a statement made available to newsmen yesterday in…
Two top officials removed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have been suspended pending investigations but have not been formally dismissed, a senior presidential aide said. On Sunday, Zelenskyy said Ivan Bakanov had been removed as head of the SBU domestic security agency and Iryna Venediktova had been removed as prosecutor general, citing dozens of cases…
Health authorities in Ghana have officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, after two people who later died tested positive for the virus earlier this month. Tests conducted in Ghana came back positive on July 10, but the results had to be verified by a laboratory in…
In the 22 years since Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999, academics in its public universities have gone on strike a record 15 times. The 16th one, a one-month warning strike declared on February 14 to press for increased wages, comes barely two years after a nine-month industrial action. In each case, the institutions have…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will embark on a two-day protest on July 26 to demonstrate against an eight-month shutdown of public universities across the country due to pay disagreements between the government and teachers, the body has said. The NLC, the country’s main umbrella union, represents millions of workers across most sectors of Africa’s…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has mourned the passage of Chief (Mrs) Kemi Nelson, a member of the Governance Advisory Council (GAC), the apex leadership body of the Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC). Nelson, a former Executive Director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and ex-South-West Zonal Women Leader of the All…
The Peoples Democratic Party has counselled the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, to know that rushing to Abuja in the face of the defeat of his party in the Osun State Governorship election cannot overturn “the will of the people at the poll”. PDP said this in a statement by its…
