RUSSIA LAUNCHES MASSIVE DRONE AND MISSILE BARRAGE ON UKRAINE, KILLING AT LEAST 18 CIVILIANS AND STRIKING KYIV AND MULTIPLE CITIES. (PHOTO).
Russia launches massive drone and missile barrage on Ukraine, killing at least 18 civilians and striking Kyiv and multiple cities Russia carried out a large-scale overnight assault on Ukraine, launching hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles that killed at least 18 civilians and wounded more than 100 others across multiple cities, officials said Tuesday. The strikes hit Kyiv, Dnipro and other regions, with emergency crews working through destroyed residential buildings where some victims were trapped under rubble. In Dnipro, rescuers recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old child and a mother and her 8-year-old son, while officials reported 12 deaths in the city and six in Kyiv. The bombardment stretched from night into daylight, with explosions reported across wide areas of the country. Kyiv residents had been on alert for days after warnings of a major aerial attack, including advisories for foreign diplomats to leave the capital. Despite those warnings, most remained in pl...
The Minister of Information and Culture,Alhaji Lai Mohammed,has said the Federal Government will soon adopt a policy to give the right of first refusal to indigenous consultants in its projects.The Minister disclosed this in Abuja on Friday when he received the Public Relations Consultants Association of Nigeria {PR-CAN} on a courtesy visit to his office.He said even when a foreign consultant is coming into the country,the company must involve indigenous consultants.''I remember that at the last Federal Executive Council Meeting,it was hotly debated that in all forms of consultancy we should as a matter of policy insist that no consultant should come without his own Nigerian partner.That way we believe that it will make it easier for us to develop the capacity,skills and the expertise of our home-grown consultants.When you involve your own consultants in your projects,you are not just taking expert advice,you are also employing people who have already bought into the project and who appreciate the fact that the success of that project is the success of the country.We believe in skills and technology transfer but if yoy don't give your people a chance,who is going to give them a chance? People argue that the Nigerian consultants don't have the requisite experience.Even if that is the case,how will they get it if you continue every time to shun them and you prefer foreign consultants? These fore consultants got to where they got to because they were given the opportunity from their country,'' the Minister said.He said once the policy is active,government ministries and agencies will begin to involve consultants like PR-CAN in their programmes.
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