June 2025 – Page 25 – Rise Africa

Nigerian Students, Pharmacists Lead Calls For Urgent Action Against Drug Abuse

27.06.2025

As Nigeria joins the global community to commemorate the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26, 2025, the call for urgent and sustained national intervention has grown louder. The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN), alongside concerned citizens, is demanding a comprehensive, prevention-driven approach to tackle the growing drug abuse...

Reps Move To Empower Youth With Vocational, Entrepreneurial Skills

27.06.2025

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Alternative Education, Ibrahim Almustapha, has said there is the urgent need to empower Nigerian youths through structured vocational and entrepreneurial training. This was as the House begun legislative action on a bill seeking to establish federal vocational and skills training centres across Nigeria’s 774 Local Government...

CSO Calls For Full Implementation of Police Duty Solicitors Scheme In Abia

27.06.2025

The Centre for Human Rights Advocacy and Wholesome Society (CEHRAWS), has called for the immediate operationalization of the Police Duty Solicitors Scheme (PDSS) across all police formations in Abia State, in accordance with the provisions of Police Force Order No. 20 and the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2017 (ACJL). CEHRAWS, a civil society organization...

Residents Laud NYSC For Extending Free Medical Outreach To Osun Community

27.06.2025

Residents of Kajola, Ede North Local Government Area of Osun State, have lauded the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for extending its Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers (HIRD) medical outreach to them. According to the beneficiaries of NYSC’s HIRD, the outreach gave them the ample opportunity to receive free medical talks, checkups, and necessary drugs,...

100,000 Vehicles Converted In One Year – FG

27.06.2025

The Federal Government disclosed that over 100,000 petrol-powered vehicles have been converted to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in the past year. The Programme Director and Chief Executive of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative, Michael Oluwagbemi, disclosed this at a sensitisation programme workshop in Lagos on Thursday. Oluwagbemi said that as the Federal Government ramped...

Civil Service Conference: Tinubu Orders Personnel Audit Skills Gap Analysis

27.06.2025

President Bola Tinubu has ordered the audit of personnel and the analysis of the skill gaps in the civil service. The President gave this order yesterday in his remarks while declaring open the maiden International Civil Service Conference in Abuja as part of the 2025 Civil Service Week, organised by the Office of the Head...

…Describes Civil Service As Backbone Of Effective Administration

27.06.2025

President Bola Tinubu yesterday declared that the administration had prioritized key welfare policies to improve the wellbeing of staff. He said the new national minimum wage, the consequential adjustments to salaries arising from the new minimum wage, and the approval of the Pension Bond Scheme, were some of the instruments to boost morale of the...

PDP’s Nat’l Secretary: Court Adjourns Case To Sept 22

27.06.2025

Justice Mohammed Umar of a Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed September 22, for hearing in the suit on the authentic National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The judge fixed the date for a definite hearing of all motions against the suit filed by the embattled National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, based on...

Reconciliation Between Fubara, Wike, Good Effort-Shehu Sani

27.06.2025

Former lawmaker, senator Shehu Sani, on Friday, stated that the reconciliation efforts between the suspended Rivers State Governor Similayi Fubara, and his estranged political godfather, Nyesom Wike, a good news. The statement comes after President Bola Tinubu reunited the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Fubara, and members of the State House of Assembly. However,...

Strike: NLC Threatens Abuja Shut-Down Over Wage Disputes

27.06.2025

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday threatened to shut down Abuja after July 3 if the FCT Administration (FCTA) fails to resolve the industrial disputes affecting area council workers. Chairman Stephen Knabayi said the planned protest would be aimed at forcing authorities to address several unresolved welfare concerns,...