Palladium has pledged to support humanitarian assistance with $100,000. Every year, Palladium brings in ideas from across its global network to source innovative responses to global challenges through the Palladium Challenge Fund. This year, there is up to $100,000 available to support projects with groundbreaking and sustainable ideas to increase the impact of humanitarian crisis response. The theme for this Read More
Since her assumption of office on August 21, 2023, the Minister of Humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has taken the bull by the horn in actualising the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Therefore as the world marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, PAUL OKAH outlines the activities of the minister aimed Read More
The Senate, Tuesday, embarked on amendment of National Social Investment Programme Agency Act (NSIPA), 2023 aimed at moving the agency from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to the Presidency. Leader of the Senate, Opeyemi Bamidele, initiated the bill at the plenary Tuesday, seeking to amend the National Social Investment Programme Agency Act, 2023. Specifically, according to Bamidele, Read More
Nigerian blockchain company, Convexity Humanitarian Aid Transfer Solution (CHATS) will be pitching its humanitarian aid tool named to judges from BlackRock, United Nations, and Circle for a $100, 000 investment in the upcoming Circle’s solutions pitch competition event in New York, USA. The pitch competition organised by Circle is aimed to showcase tools that enable rapid humanitarian aid and will Read More
An Estate company, Livebridge Properties and Investment Ltd have provided medical outreach and feed over 1000 displaced people at the new Kuchingoro IDP Camp in Kaura District, Abuja. Also, the company donated writing and reading materials to the displaced person school to over 280 pupils. According to the company, the donation and the medical outreach which has been a yearly Read More
Chief James Ume, founder and chairman of Unubiko Foundation, has been honoured with the “The Sun Newspapers Humanitarian Service Icon Award 2022” one of the biggest recognitions by The Sun Publishing Company Ltd, publishers of The Sun Newspaper titles. Ume received the award alongside 25 other eminent Nigerians in a well-attended ceremony at the Expo Convention Centre, Eko Hotels & Read More
A female police officer, Inspector Justina Rita Omogbai, attached to the Traffic Unit of the Sabo Divisional Headquarters in Lagos state, has received commendation of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). A press statement by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Tuesday, said the officer was commended for her commitment and acts of professionalism displayed in the course Read More
Since last week, the media has been awash with reports of budget padding and this set the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, with the latter’s minister, Sadiya Umar Farouq, lamenting that the finance ministry inserted N206 billion into her ministry’s 2023 appropriation bill. In this report, PAUL Read More
Right from its creation the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (FMHADMSD), under the leadership of Sadiya Umar Farouq, has prioritised empowerment of persons with disabilities (PWDs) thereby unearthing abilities in disability, PAUL OKAH writes. When the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, was created by President Muhammadu Buhari on August 21, 2019, Read More
It’s a fact that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, under the leadership of Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, has been up and doing all over the country. On August 12, 2022, the ministry flagged-off the grant for vulnerable groups and the digitilised payment for conditional cash transfer in Dutse, Jigawa state, Akwa Ibom, Katsina etc. Why is Bauchi being denied the Read More
The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (FMHADMSD) recently began the distribution of N20, 000 cash grants to 2,900 rural women in the Federal Capital Territory and other parts of the country under its National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP). PAUL OKAH takes a look at the ministry’s poverty alleviation programmes. For the majority of Nigerians, the Read More
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development recently developed a four-year national roadmap on local production of standard assistive technologies for persons with disabilities (PWDs). The move is regarded by many as the succour for PWDs who had complained of discomfort with foreign devices; PAUL OKAH reports. World over, an estimated one billion people are said to Read More
The UN secretary general was in Borno recently on fact-finding mission. In this report, SADIQ ABUBAKAR reports on the visit and the take away. Not too long ago, Borno state governor Babagana Umara Zulum received the United Nations secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, who was in Maiduguri to assess the humanitarian situation in the state. Guterres arrived at the Maiduguri International Airport Read More
One of the objectives of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is to tackle poverty in the country and this necessitated the creation of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in 2019, with Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq as its pioneer minister. PAUL OKAH in this report takes a look at how the government has so far curbed Read More
The humanitarian community in Nigeria, comprising national and international institutions and agencies, converged in Abuja on March 22 for what eminently qualified to become an annual commemorative event dedicated to the concerted efforts and celebrated outcomes that constitute the ultimate in humane governance. The concerted efforts of government dedicated to delivering succour, restoring hope and rekindling a sense of belonging Read More
Since its creation in 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, led by Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, has championed the cause of lifting millions of Nigeria out of poverty particularly in the North-east and other parts of the country. PAUL OKAH in this piece examines how well it has been. In Read More
Following its determination to provide timely information to the public on its activities, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, in collaboration with all agencies under the ministry, has launched the Humanitarian Open House and the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Policy. Speaking during the launch Tuesday in Abuja, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Read More
Zamfara state government has created Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to cater for the 700,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and others affected by banditry and attacks in the state. Zamfara state Commissioner for Information, Hon. Ibrahim Dosara, who disclosed this in Kaduna on Sunday, said the ministry has established eight centers across the state and emergency Read More
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, led by Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, the pioneer minister, has ensured that exited batches A and B N-Power beneficiaries under the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) are not plunged back into poverty and unemployment by collaborating with relevant agencies to make beneficiaries under NEXIT access loans to establish or support Read More
The National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) was initiated by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in 2016. In 2019, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development was created with Sadiya Umar Farouq as the minister. She promptly initiated the supply of a meal per day to primary one to three pupils in public schools across the Read More
The issue of the value of a monthly N5,000 in the lives of the poorest of the poor has now become the bone of contention thrown up in yet another bid to trivialise the first-time establishment of a federal ministry dedicated to humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, which captures the hitherto neglected aspects of governance most relevant to Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Abuja praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for opening his country’s borders to accommodate millions of refugees in dire need of humanitarian support. Speaking at a joint press conference on the occasion of the official visit of the Turkish leader to Nigeria, the President said his Turkish counterpart has set an example to the rest Read More
The Adamawa state governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, is to be decorated as the Northeast Star Magazine best Governor of the Year, with Dr Mohammed Kyari Dikwa clinging 2021 man of the year award. A press statement made available to Blueprint by the chairman, Media and Publicity Committee, Hajiya Zainab Abubakar, Monday in Gombe, stated that the 2021 award is expected to Read More
The national chairman, Council of Ulama, Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Ikamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Shiekh Sani Yahaya Jingir, has admonished health workers to be cautious of the fact that Allah will hold them to account on their deeds as those entrusted to look after their clients. He also called on the federal government to support faith based health organisation. Sheikh Jingir Read More
The Commissioner, National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) Sunday Thomas has expressed worries that most public buildings and buildings under construction above 2 floors are never adequately and appropriately insured. He started this at the sensitization workshop for federal fire service and state fire service officers on insurance of public buildings and buildings under construction above two floors in Abuja. He said, Read More
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