An initiative that deploys volunteer medical students in Sudan to treat COVID-19 patients in their homes will get a boost from a new partnership comprising Project ECHO, the global telementoring initiative based at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Centre in Albuquerque; the University of Nebraska Medical Centre (UNMC); the Sudanese American Medical Association (SAMA) and Sudan NextGen (SNG), ...

The Niger State Government has said that it is collaborating with a Ghanaian firm, Zoom Life recycling company, to establish three refuse recycling plants in the state. Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello Malam Habib Abdulmalik, General Manager, Niger State Environmental Protection Agency (NISEPA), told newsmen in Minna, the state capital, on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 that the partnership was ...

A total of 75 companies are bidding for 12  federal roads to be concession under the first phase of the Highway Development Management Initiative (HDMI). Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) Mrs Abimbola Asein, Head, Public Private Partnership (PPP) Unit of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, disclosed this at the opening of Request For Qualification ...

The newly appointed Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Ahmed Habib, has pledged to strive to create frontiers that would make the management of emergencies in Nigeria easier and effective. Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Ahmed Habib Habib made the pledge in a statement by his Media Aide, Mr Gimba Mohammed, in Abuja on Tuesday, June 1, ...

The Federal Ministry of Environment in Nigeria has inaugurated the project steering committee on the phasing out of the chemicals that deplete the earth’s ozone layer. Dr Mohammed Abubakar, Minister of Environment; Mrs Sharon Ikeazor, Environment Minister of State, with UNDP and UNIDO officials and guests at the event The stage II of the Hydro chlorofluorocarbons Phase-out Management Plan (HPMP) ...

Burkina Faso recently approved the commercial use of its first pearl millet hybrid called Nafagnon. Pearl millet hybrid farm With the approval, the single-cross hybrid also became the first of its kind to be approved in West and Central Africa (WCA). Nafagnon yields as much as 45 percent higher than popular variety Misari-1. It is more resistant to downy mildew and ...