Longgul Dakwom

  Lagos, Nigeria :  To address the present turmoil of #COVID19 in Nigeria. Development Communications Network with support from over 150 volunteers Social Media & Health Influencers all over Nigeria launched a campaign titled ‘#5daysforCOVID19’. The twitter conversation ran for five days as Nigeria joins the world to tackle the #COVID19 virus.  The twitter campaign reached over 7.5 million people with credible information on Corona Virus in 5 days. The topic discussed covers how to prevent contacting Corona Virus, how and who should self-isolate, the concept of social distancing and public and private roles to help flatten the curve of COVID-19.  Some important tips below were shared by […]

President of the Mupun Cultural and Development Association, MUCDA,Chief Pedro Ardiyel Dafur has issued a directive for a sensitization campaign to be carried out across villages under the Mupun extraction against the corona virus epidemic in the country. He gave the directive yesterday,Sunday 23,March 2020 in Jos after returning from a trip to Lankan pointing out that the people in the villages were not well informed of the virus and its devastating effects on humanity. The MUCDA President has in that sense directed the Publicity Secretary and Director of Socials of MUCDA to come up with a strategy to get Mupun people informed and educated on the corona virus and […]

The Academic Staff Union of univerties declared a two week warning strike to press home demands ranging from the Memorandum of understanding and memorandum of action entered between ASUU and FGN since 2009 and 2013 respectively. Part of the issues raised by the MOU ranges on the issues of Funding and revitalization of public universities, Earned academic allowances of Academic Staff , salary shortfall, and issues of proliferation of state universities and the funding issues. Other issues include NUPEMCO and arrangements of visitation panels to public universities. As ASUU continued to press the demand above, the FGN through the AGF around […]