Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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Corruption: Accountants Must Act Now – Finance Minister
BY MARK ITSIBOR, Minister of finance, budget and national planning, Zainab Ahmed has said accountants must take urgent and drastic steps to face corruption head-on. The minister said professional accountants in Nigeria should imbibe ethical behaviour centered on competence, integrity, objectivity, independence, responsibility, conscientiousness and conformity to standards to deal ...
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Editorial: Why NDLEA Needs Tougher Laws
From being a section of the Police Force situated at the notorious Alagbon Close, Lagos, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has come a long way to its present status as a dare-devil arm of government working to clean the society of harmful drugs. Its evolution, however, is work ...
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COVID-19: WHO Trains Media Personnel On Community Engagement
BY ADENIYI ADUNOLA, Lagos The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday trained media personnel on risk communication and community engagement on COVID-19 to be able to communicate effectively through their various platforms. Speaking during the training, Public Health Communication/Promotion Specialist, WHO, Dr. Chima Onuekwe, said risk communication and community engagement ...
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Niger: Gov. Bello Assents To GBV, Pre-Marital Examination Bills
Gov. Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger on Wednesday assented into law, the bill against Gender Based Violence (GBV) and the bill that provided for Pre-marital Medical Examination in the state, 2020. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the bills were sponsored by Hajiya Binta Mamman and Malam Shuaibu ...
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Uzodinma, Okorocha Feud May Sink APC – Youth Group
By Anayo Onukwugha, Port Harcourt A youth group in Rivers State, the Concerned Youths for Justice and Rule of Law (CYJRL), has warned that the ongoing feud between Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma and his predecessor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, may sink the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria. Addressing ...
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ECOWAS Protocol Empowers FG To Refuse Entry Of Foreign Armed Herders – Falana
BY GEORGE OKOJIE, Lagos Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN has urged the Federal Government to halt the lamentation about influx of foreign armed herders into the country, saying certain protocols of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) allows the government to shut out armed foreign herders. The ...
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Halal Invest Wins NASFAT $10, 000 BUILD Initiative
By Adeniyi Adunola, Lagos Halal Invest, a digital marketplace that simplifies access to varieties of ethical financial products and services has been awarded the winner’s prize of $10, 000 in the maiden edition of Nasru-lahi-l- fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) Business Incubation LaunchpaD (BUILD) Initiative. Speaking while signing the memorandum ...
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Okonjo-Iweala, Great Asset To Women, Nigeria – Group
An Abuja based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC), says Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is not just a trailblazer to the female gender but also an asset to Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okonjo-Iweala on Feb. 15 emerged the seventh Director-General World Trade ...
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Senate Begins Process For Establishment Of FUTA Teaching Hospital
BY HENRY TYOHEMBA | A bill for the establishment of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) Teaching Hospital was read for the first time at the Plenary session of the 9th senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as the fourth business of the day on the 18th of ...
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Minister Katagum Salutes NADDC Boss Over First Electric Car Assembled In Nigeria
Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Ambassador Mariam Katagum, has commended the Director-General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council, NADDC, Jelani Aliyu over the recently unveiled first electric car assembled in Nigeria. Recall that on February 5, Mr Aliyu, in collaboration with the Stallion Group, had ...
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Only Innovative Policies Would Address Malnutrition – Finance Minister
BY MARK ITSIBOR | Minister of finance, budget and national planning Zainab Ahmed has said the federal government must implement innovative policies and strategies to address the pervasive issue of malnutrition in Nigeria. The minister who was speaking at the inception dialogue on the United Nations (UN) food systems summit, ...
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Togo Overtakes Nigeria In Shipping Business
BY YUSUF BABALOLA | Togo has overtaken Nigeria to become the maritime hub in West and Central Africa due to a long-running crisis bedeviling the nation’s seaports! LEADERSHIP can reveal. Before now, Nigeria was number one in shipping business in the whole of West and Central Africa, but has now ...
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Nigeria: We'll Make Nigeria Top Destination for Investment - Onu
[Vanguard] The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has assured that Nigeria will soon overcome its current security challenges and become top destination for foreign direct investments.
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Stakeholders Pick Holes In Management Of Safe School Initiative
BY HENRY TYOHEMBA, DUSTAN AGHEDO | Stakeholders in the country’s education sector have expressed worry about the utilisation of the $20million voted for the commencement of the Safe Schools Initiative to cover over 500 rural schools. The Safe Schools Initiative was launched at the World Economic Forum on Africa in ...
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Cryptocurrency Used To Finance Terrorism, CBN, NFIU, ICPC Tell NASS
By Jonathan Nda- Isaiah, Emameh Gabriel | Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, chairman Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, and Nigerian Financial Intelligent Unit (NFIU) yesterday told the Senate that cryptocurrency is being used as a channel for funding violent ...
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Nigeria Institutions Of Learning Needs Qualified Academics – Ajiboye
BY ADEBAYO WAHEED, Ibadan The Registrar, Chief Executive, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) Professor Segun Ajiboye has said academic excellence would be easily achieved in the country when highly qualified professionals are given opportunity to teach in the nation’s institutions of learning. Ajiboye who stated this while presenting the ...
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Court Grants NDLEA Permission To Destroy Explosive Laden Container
BY OLUGBENGA SOYELE, Lagos Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court in Lagos has granted leave to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to destroy a 1×20 feet container loaded with 381 bags of Ammonium Nitrate, a Chemical used in producing explosives. Justice Faji granted the permission to ...
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Senate Approves Appointment Of Ex-Service Chiefs As None-Career Ambassadors
By EMAMEH GABRIEL, Abuja The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of ex- service Chiefs as non-career ambassadors-designate The nomination was confirmed after a report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs was read on the floor of the red chamber by Senator Bulkachuwa Adamu Muhammed (Bauchi State). It should be ...
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The Miseducation Of The Nigerian Middle Class
By Dami ADEBAYO Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement has been hailed as a new generation’s attempt to challenge the status quo. Its ability to transform online disaffection by its youthful popula￾tion towards offline protests and di￾rect action has resulted in it being treated as the most formidable op￾position to the Buhariadministra￾tion. While this ...
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Tambuwal: Nigeria Is Great, Can Be Greater Through Unity
In the face of the intractable conflicts being witnessed across the country, Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has reaffirmed that the country is prominent and could be better if unity of all the federating units is cultivated and sustained. Gov. Tambuwal stated this while signing into law the ...
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Sokoto Hisbah Is Constitutional – Tambuwal
Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has explained that the new Hisbah Commission in the state should not be perceived as a legalistic gimmick intent on fostering anything other than the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on residents of the State. Gov. Tambuwal stated this while signing ...