By Miriam Humbe, Abuja Nearly a year ago, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) signed a Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU). Satisfied with the success attained in the execution of the MoU, the International Rescue Committee again proposed an offer to expand and extend the scope and duration of the existing MoU between both organisations. This was disclosed during a courtesy visit by the IRC team to the NiMet headquarters, Abuja, yesterday. The International Rescue Committee Team, which was led by the IRC Governance Coordinator, Dorcas Kingsley David explained that IRC and NiMet had previously signed…
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By Miriam Humbe, Abuja Following warnings of impeding flooding in parts of the country, the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, (NAWOJ), FCT Chapter have called on the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the media and other stakeholders to create more awareness on flood prevention to avert devastating consequences of not heeding the early warnings. These were part of a seven-point communique issued at the end of the Congress of the NAWOJ, FCT Chapter, on Saturday, April 15, 2023, as jointly signed by the Chairperson, Comrade Annah Daniel and Secretary, Comrade Nkiru Okeke. Also at its Congress, NAWOJ commended Nigerian women for coming…
By Miriam Humbe, Abuja The Federal Competition & Consumer Protection Commission, (FCCPC) and its collaborators on the Joint Regulatory & Enforcement Taskforce, (JRTF), welcomed Google’s policy of barring digital lending applications from accessing sensitive user data, saying that their efforts had finally been rewarded. The Commission’s collaborators in the JRTF included the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau, (NDPB). It was gathered that the digital applications had been equipped to access personal information such as contacts, photos, videos,…