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......As Care Foundation Advocates For Disability Desk in Airports By Aviashima Toom, Abuja Air travel for people with disabilities can be very challenging if airport facilities are not accessible and reasonable accommodations are not also provided. Passengers with disabilities face infrastructure, information, and customer service barriers at airports. For example, complex terminal layouts and long distances between gates can be hard to navigate. Additionally, travel information is not always available in a format that is accessible to all. Infrastructure barriers can include complex terminal layouts and long distances between gates and can be difficult for some to navigate. Essential travel information is not always available in a format accessible to all.  For example, a person with hearing loss could miss crucial gate information that is solely provided over a loudspeaker. A passenger might not receive appropriately sensitive service, such as...

By Aviashima Toom, Abuja The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Water Resources and National Water Resources Institute (NWRI), have organized a two day training workshop for water resources correspondents, Editors and news Analysts in the Nigeria water sector. Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, while declaring the workshop open on Thursday in Abuja said that, the training will provide a greater understanding of the activities in the Water sector and to enhance informed, effective, objective and balanced reportage of the trends in the Water Sector especially for the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. According to him, Theme for the training; “Reporting Water in its Perspective” was apt and could not have come at a better time than now considering that Nigerians need to be fed with accurate information about the sphere of Water and issues of Water as every human activity revolves around it. Hence the axiom; Water is Life.  He said, "It is worth...

By Aviashima Toom, Abuja The Igbonine Socio-cultural Organisation, has called on stakeholders, Government of all tiers, Religious leaders and Traditional rulers to consult among themselves and determine how to end actions of self immolation in Igboland. President General of the group, High Chief Emeka Okonkwo, made the call on Thursday while briefing journalists in Abuja, also called on it people who are giving overt or covert support to the misguided youths involved in the damage to the psyche, lives and welfare of the people living in the south East, to the negative impact of their actions on Ndigbo. He said that, apart from lose of lives, the South East are losing businesses and income on a daily basis from the apparently unending Sit-At-Home order. He said, they cannot continue on the voyage of self destruction, and cutting it nose to spite their face. "The state of  affairs in the South East is capable of completely destroying the enterprise of the Igb...

By Aviashima Toom, Abuja Civil Society Coalition on Audit in Nigeria (CSCAN), says, about 15.3 billion NDDC Contract Sum is yet to be Accounted for. The coalition, which includes Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (PLSI), BudglT Foundation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Dataphyte, Step Up Nigeria, Accountability Lab, Centre for Health, Equity and Justice (CEHEJ), Basic Rights Watch, Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) and media executives in Nigeria revealed most of the projects were either completely abandoned or poorly implemented. Speaking Wednesday on behalf of CSCAN in Abuja, Executive Director of PLSI, Olusegun Elemo, said review and analysis of and physical assessment of projects revealed the waste of resources in the NDDC. He explained that, within the last six months (March-August 2021) the Coalition was able to monitor 115 priority projects out of 176 contracts highlighted in its review and analysis of Compliance Audit Report of the Aud...

Aviashima Toom, Abuja A new report by the Civil Society Coalition on Audit in Nigeria (CSCAN) has revealed that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is unable to account for N90.9b in 176 contracts awarded between 2008 and 2018. The coalition, which includes Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (PLSI), BudglT Foundation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Dataphyte, Step Up Nigeria, Accountability Lab, Centre for Health, Equity and Justice (CEHEJ), Basic Rights Watch, Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) and media executives in Nigeria revealed most of the projects were either completely abandoned or poorly executed. Speaking Wednesday on behalf of CSCAN in Abuja, Executive Director of PLSI, Olusegun Elemo, said review and analysis of and physical assessment of projects revealed the waste of resources in the NDDC. “We visited most of the project sites, we have pictorial evidence and we have identified the companies involved and detai...

Aviashima Toom, Abuja Save the Children International Foundation has disclosed that, the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria, according to UNICEF report, was at 10.5million before the effects of the conflict, humanitarian crisis and COVID-19 pandemic were felt. The Foundation made the disclosure in a statement  on Thursday by the Country Director, Save the Children International Nigeria, Ms. Mercy Gichuhi, as the world marks the second International Day to Protect Education from Attack. The statement reads in parts; "Save the Children International Foundation has expressed concern about the persistent attack on schools, students and teachers in Nigeria. "As the world marks the second International Day to Protect Education from Attack, Save the Children is concerned about the persistent attack on schools, students and teachers in Nigeria. "According to the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA), between 2015-2019 , there were ...

By Our Reporter Comite International Geneva, (CIG) has donated food items to 33,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and vulnerable people in Uikpam, Guma Local Government Area (LGA), Benue. Mr Jessey Andrew, the  Economic, Security and Generalist Field Officer, disclosed this in an interview with Sahel Reporters on Saturday at the IDP Camp in Uikpam, Guma LGA of the State. Andrew said that each beneficiary was given 50kg of rice, 10kg of vegetable oil and 1kg of table salt. "Beans is supposed to be given to the beneficiaries too but it is out of stock now but arrangements are in place to get it for them in a record time. "We are given the food items to vulnerable people in the host community too in order to reduce tension. "If only the IDPs are given there will be tension between the IDPs and members of  the community. "There is hunger in the land and we are trying to close the hunger gap. This is one of our cardinal mandates," he sa...