Month: January 2024

Mandy Park The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged member nations of its global tobacco treaty to ban or regulate E-cigarettes and other novel and emerging products of the tobacco industry, if they are yet to do so, in the interest of public health. It made the call Tuesday at a virtual media workshop ahead of the 10th Conference of Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC – the global tobacco treaty) in Panama. The event, organised by the Network for Accountability of Tobacco…

Mandy Park The Old Bende Stakeholders Forum has cautioned against the victimisation of any of their sons and daughters using the current Abia State Panel on Recovery of Government Property. It noted that although it welcomes the panel as a means of ensuring that nobody appropriates government’s property unlawfully, but vows not to subscribe for the use of the panel for intimidation/harassment of perceived political opponents. Leader of the Forum, Chief Charles Ogbonnaya made the remarks when they paid a solidarity visit to the immediate Provost of Abia State College…

Mandy Park Immediate Provost of Abia State College of Education, Technical, Dr Philips Nto has protested the seizure of his official vehicle by the state panel on Recovery of Government Property. He said by Government’s extant regulations, he was entitled to go with his official vehicle as Provost and wondered why the panel did not put that fact into consideration. He lamented the fact that the panel did not also consider the fact that he was being owed close to N120m before ordering the Recovery of the vehicle. Dr Philips…

…asks govt to rise to leadership challenge By: Mandy Park Dr. Anuma Kalu Ulu, Founder, Kalu Ulu Memorial Foundation, philanthropist, public commentator and US based Nigerian medical doctor, family physician and geriatrician was in Nigeria on a medical mission. He took time out to talk to select media including NigeriaNewsMark, on some critical issues concerning Nigeria, and what needs to be done to move the country forward. He also spoke on other national issues including the health sector, restructuring, governance in his state (Abia) among others. Excerpt Briefly, let’s know…

Mandy Park The Management of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU) has appointed Dr Philips Nto as the Director of Agribusiness Incubation Centre.This is as Nto has made firm promise to ensure that the centre emerges the best in it’s enterprise. The appointment which is for a period of two years takes effect from January, 01,2024 and makes him a member of the University’s Senate and Management In a letter signed by the University Registrar Dr( mrs) Nkeiruka C Mbanasor , Nto will be” responsible to the Vice Chancellor…

In the next six days, year 2023 will come to an end with its intrigues, suspense, dashed hopes and controversies. There is no doubt that the country experienced significant and lasting changes in 2023, profoundly shaping the country’s political, economic and social landscape.  Sunday Sun brings to focus some of the major political events that shaped the year. The 2023 general election The 2023 general election was one of the significant events that shaped Nigeria’s political landscape in the year in review. The nation’s political scene was heated up with…

Mandy Park  A University lecturer, Dr Philips Nto has commended the National Assembly for the early passage of the 2024 budget which President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assented to recently.  But he wants the executive to ensure the orderly implementation of the budget, so as to achieve the intended targets.  Nto was however not happy that the fund earlier allocated to the National Assembly was increased instead of finding a way to reduce the deficit gap in the budget.  Dr Nto, a lecturer at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike,  noted…