The Taraba State Advisory Committee on Local Government Autonomy has moved to calm the fears of traditional rulers in the state, assuring them that the financial autonomy granted to the 16 local government areas will not erode their influence.Rt. Hon. Peter Diah, Chairman of the Committee and state House of Assembly Committee Chairman on Local […]
Application Deadline: October 16, 2024 at 5:00 pm ET. Applications are now open for the second annual Dart Center Documentary Film Fellowship, an immersive, weeklong fellowship for senior and mid-career documentary filmmakers who wish to deepen their knowledge of emotional trauma and psychological injury, delve into documentary ethics and craft challenges, and enrich their engagement around violence, conflict and […]
Dangote Refinery has hit out at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) for claiming they bought fuel from them at N898 per litre. https://dailypost.ng/2024/09/15/dangote-sold-fuel-to-us-at-n898-per-litre-nnpcl/ A statement made available to DAILY POST on Sunday and signed by Anthony Chiejina, the Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer of Dangote Company, debunked those claims. Chiejina described it […]
Application Deadline: November 20, 2024 at 4pm EDT Applications are now open for the 2025/2026 United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar Fellowship Program. USIP’s Peace Scholar Fellowship program awards non-residential fellowships to Ph.D. candidates enrolled at U.S. universities who are writing doctoral dissertations on topics related to conflict management, peacebuilding and security studies. Since 1988, the program […]
Application Deadline: December 9th, 2024 Applications are now open for the 2024 Atlas Short-term Fellowship. The Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) and the Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA) of Nairobi offer a short-term fellowship of three month in France for postdoc researchers from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Eastern Congo (Kivu) who have presented their thesis […]
Application Deadline: September 25, 2024 Applications are now open for the 2024 Falling Walls International Berlin Science Journalism Fellowship. The Falling Walls Foundation invites science journalists from around the world to apply for the Falling Walls International Berlin Science Journalism Fellowship 2024. During the Berlin Science Week (1-10 November 2024) and the Falling Walls Science Summit (7-9 November […]
Reinstated Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu says the outcome of the just concluded governorship election in the state justified his claims that the incumbent Governor, Goodwin Obaseki was unpopular. Shaibu, who spoke on Monday during a program on Arise TV, claimed that Obaseki has never won any election by himself, stressing that the […]
The Nigerian Army says troops of its 6 Division have eliminated two suspected oil thieves and arrested 18 others during different anti-illegal bunkering operations in the Niger Delta. The Spokesman for the division, Lt.-Col. Danjuma Danjuma, who made this known in a statement in Port Harcourt on Monday, said the operations were held in Akwa […]
President of the Ninth Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has congratulated Governor-Elect Monday Okpebholo on his victory at the just concluded Edo State Governorship election. Senator Lawan, in a statement issued on Monday, described Okpebholo’s victory as a well-deserved win for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The former Senate President, who represents Yobe North Senatorial […]
