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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Ola Ajayi, Ibadan A two-time senator at the National Assembly, Iyiola Omisore and some archaeologists have called on leaders in the country to resuscitate museums by proper and regular funding to make them attraction centres for indigenous and foreign tourists. They made the call Tuesday during the international museum day at the Museum of National Unity, Ibadan. Omisore who presented a keynote address at the event suggested that branding and increased social media presence; infusion of technology into display of artefacts, photographs and documents could attract tourists to museums across the country. Other factors, he feels, could save the dying museums, include introduction of more flexible hours, multiple exhibition facilities; creation of inter school competitions in the museum to arouse the curiosity and research among youths would make museum enjoy good patronage. While presenting the guest lecture entitled, ” Museums and Contested histories-Saying ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau on Monday donated N10 million to newly elected officials of Plateau Youth Council (PYC). Laong, who made the donation in Jos, at the inauguration of the officials of the reconstituted council, also promised to empower Plateau youths through agriculture. Newsmen, report that the PYC was reconstituted after 10 years of inactivity following series of litigation over its past executive councils. The governor said that the money was a take-off grant to help the new officials to re-position the council to address challenges faced by Plateau youths. Lalong, who noted that youths were very crucial to the growth of every society, promised to renovate the Azi Nyako Youth Centre in Jos, and also provide a vehicle to ease the movement of PYC officials. He said that the state government would empower the youths with funds and materials to go into agriculture to boost food production, generate employment and boost self-reliance. “My administra...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Mr Eze Onyekpere, Lead Director, Centre for Social Justice, has called for coherence between the Federal Government’s Agriculture Promotion Policy (APP) and the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) to boost agriculture. Eze, who made the call in a paper he delivered at the Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on 2018 Agriculture Budget in Kaduna on Monday. He underscored the need for greater policy coherence in ongoing efforts to develop the agriculture sector. He said that while ERGP was a short term ad hoc policy which ran from 2017 to 2020, the APP seemed to be more long-term and embedded in the continuum of previous policies. “Agriculture Promotion Policy (APP) is still short term since it is a policy of an administration that may likely not survive the administration,’’ he said. Eze said that while ERGP was the overarching policy framework, the specifics and details of agriculture were worked out in the APP, adding, however, that the details came before...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Arsenal failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in 20 years in spite of winning on the final day of the 2016/2017 English Premier League. The Gunners began the day on Sunday a point behind fourth-place Liverpool and were on course to displace the Reds when they took an eighth-minute lead against Everton before winning 3-1. But Liverpool, needing a win to ensure fourth, broke Middlesbrough’s resistance just before the break, and won 3-0 at Anfield. Newsmen report that Manchester City claimed third with a very easy 5-0 win at Watford to maintain third place. Arsenal’s remarkable run of qualifying for the UEFA Champions League in 19 consecutive seasons came to its widely anticipated end on Sunday. Hope had grown among the home support when Hector Bellerin gave them an early lead and news was that Liverpool were struggling against the relegated Middlesbrough. But in first-half stoppage time, Georginio Wijnaldum enlivened Anfield with a...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Nollywood actress, Toyin Abraham formally known as Aimakhu has said that she regretted her relationship with Seun Egbegbe. Toyin speaking on a ChannelsTV Rubbin Minds went emotional when she was asked if she regretted her relationship with her ex husband, Seun Egbegbe. //storify.com/Adekunle2/toyin-aimakhu-e/embed?border=false //storify.com/Adekunle2/toyin-aimakhu-e.js?border=false [ View the story “I regret dating Seun Egbegbe -Toyin Aimakhu” on Storify ] The post I regret dating Seun Egbegbe -Toyin Abraham appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2qgfQeM

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, mandated its Committee on Gas and Petroleum Resources to interface with the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to actualize the 2020 glaring flaring deadline in Nigeria. This followed a motion by Rep. Johnson Agbonayinma (Edo-PDP), who said that World Bank data ranked Nigeria second among countries among largest gas-flaring nations. Agbonayinma told the house that the record revealed that Nigeria emitted over four billion dollars worth of gas annually. He said that the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), in its 2014 Oil and Gas Report, disclosed that in 2008, the Federal Government placed 3.5 dollars per 1,000 Standard Cubic Feet (SCF) of gas flared penalty. The lawmaker said that regrettably, oil companies had refused to comply with the regulation. He said that gas-flaring accounted for about 50 per cent of all industrial emissions in the country and 30 per cent of the total “C02 emissions’’ ...