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Tata Trusts B2B app to let businesses buy directly from artisans While the app is the store front, a considerable work at the backend has gone in training and upskilling of artisans through Antaran where the focus is on handholding the artisans to be entrepreneurs Sonal Khetarpal | January 19, 2021 | Updated 23:49 IST Tata Trusts, through its craft-based livelihood programme Antaran, will launch a mobile app and website Craft Xchange to enable retailers, designers, boutiques buy directly from ...

BRIEF HISTORY Electricity was first generated in Nigeria in 1866 when two generating sets were installed to serve the Colony of Lagos. In 1951, the government of Nigeria, through an Act of Parliament, established the Electricity Commission of Nigeria (ECN) to regulate and operate the power supply systems in Nigeria. Subsequently, the Niger Dam Authority (NDA) was established for the development of the Kanji Hydroelectric Dam. In 1972, the ECN and the NDA were merged to form the Nigerian Electri...

Despite being a very challenging year for most sectors of the Nigerian economy, many remote Nigerian rural communities have had a reason to celebrate, being beneficiaries of some of the most impactful government interventions in the power sector, writes Emmanuel Addeh Having been appointed as Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) in December last year, Mr. Ahmad Salihijo, fully got down to work in January 2020, setting the tone as to the changes he was bringing to the oper...

4,503 students received multiple offers, says institute Harsh Vardhan Kushwaha, a student pursuing B.Tech (Computer Science Engineering with specialisation in Networking and Security) at the VIT-AP campus, has landed a plum job at Commvault company with a pay package of ₹20 lakh per annum. VIT conducts ‘common’ placements for all its campuses at Vellore, Chennai, Bhopal and Amaravati. Despite the pandemic, 7,403 students secured good jobs offered by 382 companies. The recruitment process ...

Wanshika Kumar NGO Coalition on Human Rights (NGOCHR) chairperson Nalini Singh. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA/FILE Fiji has a long way to go to fully achieve the integration of human rights as a way of life, says Nalini Singh, the chair of the NGO Coalition on Human Rights. “With respect to our Constitution, it shows progress of human rights as it has removed all forms of discrimination but on the flip side, we see what COVID-19 has done where we can see more and more people who are living in pover...

Beauty Ituku/ActionAid By Julie Juma, Gloria Diamond and Natasha Harris-Harb Nasriin, 22, is a teacher from Somaliland. Her school closed this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. She says school closures exacerbated existing problems that girls faced to accessing education. “When my school reopened at the end of August there were fewer girls compared to before the lockdown,” Nasriin says. “Some girls are facing abuse and early marriage. Some parents believe that girls should stay home and...

Ulster Herald Advertisement Posted: 4:00 pm December 18, 2020 SHARE HOLY Family Primary School is a wholly child-centred school, which offers its children the highest possible standard and quality of education. Our excellent, dedicated staff work tirelessly to meet the learning needs and aspirations of every child, ensuring they reach their full potential. As year one parent Claire Hosier states, “My son loves year one. He never has a bad day and always has so much fun. Holy Family i...

THE latest organisation to support Worcester’s Big Parade has been unveiled. The Worcester News has previously been revealed as a media partners for the major elephant-themed art trail set to march into the citys streets for eight weeks in 2021, from July 12 to September 5. Worcester Business Improvement District (BID) has now joined Worcester’s Big Parade as Community and Education Partner, helping raise awareness of the just over five-mile long art trail, which will weave through ci...

FG to construct captive hybrid power plants in 15 universities — REA boss On By Chris Ochayi The Federal Government said it has concluded arrangements to embark on design and construction of captive hybrid power plants across a total of 15 universities and two Teaching Hospitals in the country. The Managing Director of Rural Electrification Agency, REA, Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, who disclosed this while speaking at the commissioning of the solar hybrid power project at the Federal University of ...

FG secures World bank, AFDB funding to implement phase II, III of EEP FG secures World bank, AFDB funding to implement phase II, III of EEP • Commissions 8.25MWs solar hybrid power project in Makurdi varsity Share The Rural Electrification Agency (REA), at the weekend, says it has secured funding from the World Bank and African Development Bank towards the implementation of Phase II and Phase III of the Energising Education Programme (EEP) respectively. This was even as it commissioned the E...