As the world marks this year’s World Breastfeeding Week between August 1 and August 7, Nigeria also joined the rest of the world to commemorate the 2023 World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), a global campaign which focuses on raising awareness about breastfeeding and its advantages. This year’s theme is ‘enabling breastfeeding – making a difference for working parents’ and during the week, organisations and advocates showcased the impact of paid leave, workplace support and emerging parenting norms on breastfeeding. In Nigeria, the health impact of stopping breastfeeding early was the attention and many advocates sensitized women on the benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and their babies. Every year, WBD is celebrated in the first week of August and observed globally to raise awareness about the importance of breastfeeding and its benefits. In line with the theme of this year’s WBD, emphasis was put on the need for greater breastfeeding support across all workplaces to sustain and improve progress on breastfeeding rates globally.

Bank of Industry (BoI) has indicated its resolve to partner with the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu to assist women, youth and children. This was disclosed, yesterday, during a visit by BoI’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Olukayode Pitan, and Executive Director (BoI Micro Enterprises), Mabel Ndagi, to the First Lady. The First Lady noted that the focus of RHI is vulnerable women who do not have collaterals for start-up loans; hence RHI would look to the bank for help in the area. Tinubu further expressed optimism of a fruitful partnership between RHI and BoI. In a goodwill gesture, Pitan presented a copy of BoI’s Annual General Report to the First Lady.

Social media platform, Meta has informed that its instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, has been updated to now have screen-sharing capability. The screen-sharing feature will enable users to share their screen during a video call on WhatsApp. With this feature, users can now share presentations or documents during live video calls just as it is on traditional video conferencing platforms. With this, WhatsApp is positioned to compete with video conferencing platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, among others. You can initiate screen sharing by clicking on the ‘Share’ Icon and choosing between sharing a specific application or sharing the entire screen,” WhatsApp stated in a document.

Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, on Tuesday formally launched a special security operation codenamed “Operation Crush.”Speaking during the event held in Umuahia, Otti said the development was a strong and coordinated response to the lingering challenge of insecurity in parts of the state which has made life nightmarish for many. “This special operation is technically set up to swiftly identify, analyse and respond to security threats from and within any part of the state. While highlighting the reported cases of criminal activities across the state, Otti said the ‘tragedies’ were personal to him. “I must also emphasise that “Operation Crush” shall not just go after gun-wielding criminals; the operatives shall also be as hard on informants and those who provide shelter for the gangs and their arms. We are continuing our collaborations with the Federal Government to make sure that the welfare of the security operatives in the state is adequately catered for.

The team was praised for its “hard-fought” victory over Nigeria by William and Kate and Downing Street said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wished them the “best of luck” for the next round. A post on William and Kate’s official Twitter account said: “Well done @Lionesses! “It was hard-fought but now we’re on to the quarter-finals. “Congratulations to the @Lionesses on a hard-fought win. Boom 💥 — Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) August 7, 2023London Mayor Sadiq Khan congratulated the England side while sending “commiserations to Nigeria”.

The Force Headquarters on Tuesday announced that the police stopped the issuance of licenses for small arms due to the high rate of illegal arms proliferation in the country. There are too many arms in circulation and if we continue to issue licenses on arms, we may continue to aggravate the problems we are trying to solve,” Egbetokun said. However, he further noted that the police might review the ban in the future. “For now, there is a temporary ban on the issuance of firearms. We May review it later, but we are not issuing firearms licenses nationwide now.”The PUNCH reports that the Firearm Act has been responsible for the control of firearms in Nigeria for the past years.

Social media giant Twitter, now referred to as ‘X’, has started paying rewards to creators who are Twitter Blue subscribers, using a share of revenue earned from advertisements. This development is coming a few weeks after Meta’s owner, Mark Zuckerberg, launched a Twitter rival app, Threads. The news of the reward has generated excitement among social media users, who took to the app to share their various reactions to the payments. Please RT and follow me.”Another user, @Premier_100 tweeted, “I don buy Twitter Blue, na to hustle for 15M impressions remain. So, if you see me chasing clouts or stealing tweets, please don’t say anything ooo.”@Tee_classicquem1 wrote, “Subscribe for twitter blue.

The Chairman of Platform Capital, Dr. Akintoye Akindele, has dragged the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and five others; the Nigeria Police Force, Summit Oil International Limited, Dr. Zulikat Wuraola Abiola, Duport Energy Limited and Mr. Oluwatosin Odusanya, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for allegedly detaining him beyond the limit provided by the constitution. He supported his suit with a 62-paragraph affidavit deposed to by Adebanjo Ojedapo, a litigation manager in the law firm of B.A. Law LLP, the counsel to the applicant. He stated that due to the failure of Dr. Zulikat Wuraola Abiola to perform on its obligations under the Product Sale Agreement to supply crude oil to the Energy Park, Duport Midstream Company Limited incurred losses and could not get feedstock. READ ALSO FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE

FILE: Ex-President Buhari and the former Global CEO of the Siemens, Joe Kaeser at the State House, Abuja. Source: TwitterThe completion date of the 11,000 megawatts power project signed between the Federal Government and German-based Siemens has been shifted to 2030, according to reports. In 2019, the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Alex Okoh, on behalf of the Federal Government, had signed the agreement, while the Global Chief Executive Officer of Siemens, Joe Kaeser, signed on behalf of Siemens, to achieve 7,000 megawatts of reliable power supply by 2021, and 11,000 megawatts by 2023. However, a report by Bloomberg on Monday quoting the head of business development and government relations at Siemens Energy, Oladayo Orolu, said the company expected to complete the project by 2030 “due to delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.”Related NewsThe three-phase project was set back by delays in starting the first phase, he said. “When we conceptualised this project in 2018, our plan was within two years we should be done with phase one, but then COVID-19 happened, disrupting supply chains, which meant getting raw materials took longer than before,” Orolu said.

Bronze said she made a point of consoling an “upset” Lauren James after she was shown what could be a World Cup-ending red card in the last 16 match against Nigeria. This tournament is the first Women’s World Cup James has played in. '”FIFA’s disciplinary committee will now decide James’ World Cup fate – they could extend the 21-year-old’s ban to three matches which would mean she would miss playing the rest of the tournament if the Lionesses reach a first-ever final. In the process, she became the only England player of either gender to contribute to five goals in a single World Cup contest. We all know that and obviously we’re very disappointed to lose a player of her calibre going into the next game.

Please note, only MTN, Glo & Airtel Subscribers can actually check their WAEC Results using this SMS method. Note: If you did not receive your WAEC result via SMS, kindly repeat this step again. How to check via the WebsiteTo check your WAEC Result, visit www.waecdirect.org and log in. Follow the procedures below to check your WAEC result for 2023. Login to WAEC Result Checker Website www.waecdirect.org.

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The immediate past Minister of State for Labour and Employment and a ministerial nominee, Festus Keyamo, SAN, on Monday, apologised to the Senate over his perceived disregard for the ninth Assembly. He also explained that he had in the ninth Senate apologised to both chairman Senate committee on Labour, Employment and Productivity, Senator Godiya Akwashiki and his counterpart in the House of Representatives. I am sorry, I am sorry and I am sorry.”“Regarding that programme, the account was handled by the World Bank. Nwokocha reminded Keyamo of how he insulted the lawmakers from both chambers during his tenure as a minister under the last administration. However, when the plenary resumed session, three hours after, Keyamo apologised to the lawmakers.

A mob has beaten a yet-to-be-identified policeman to a stupor after a man identified simply as Yusuf got rammed by a BRT bus from the impact of being allegedly pushed by policemen in the Ketu area of Lagos State. The PUNCH gathered from eyewitnesses at the scene that the policeman and his colleagues were attempting to dispossess Yusuf of his vehicle when he got pushed into the BRT lane. In the process, one of the BRT buses plying the lane inward Lagos rammed into Yusuf who collapsed due to the impact of the crash. The uniform of the brutalised policeman had been torn due to the impact of the attack on him by the angry mob. People were also seen lamenting over the incident and blaming the policeman and his colleagues for causing the accident.