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Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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COVID-19: Task Team Arrests One, As NSITF Directors Scale Fence
There was pandemonium in Abuja when some top management staff of Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) allegedly abandoned their cars and scaled a perimeter fence, possibly to evade arrest by the FCT COVID-19 enforcement team. LEADERSHIP gathered that the NSITF had gathered a large crowd of its staff, across ...
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Kaduna Govt To Deliver Medicines With Drones
By AZA MSUE, Kaduna Kaduna State Government and Zipline, on Wednesday, signed a partnership with the world’s first medical drone delivery service, to convey routine and emergency medicine to every nook and cranny of the state. In a statement issued at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House after the groundbreaking ceremony, said ...
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Doria libera reabrir atividades neste fim de semana e anuncia pacote de auxílio em SP
Governador anunciou também R$ 125 milhões para socorrer os ramos de turismo, eventos, comércio e gastronomia, que tiveram suas receitas atingidas durante a pandemia O governo de São Paulo liberou a retomada das atividades econômicas no Estado já no próximo fim de semana. “Tivemos felizmente queda no ...
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Experts Charge Insurers On Reputation Mgt For Insurance Penetration
By HANNAH ONI | Reputation management experts have urged Nigerian insurance professionals to focus more on reputation management as a way of growing the insurance profession and deepen insurance penetration in the country. The experts, who spoke during the President’s Breakfast Series of the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers ...
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Nigeria Spends N1.2trn On Importation Of Power Generators
By CHIKA IZUORA | A United Nations (UN) report just released has disclosed that Nigeria has spent not less than N1.2trillion ($2.4 billion) on the importation of generating sets in the last 24 years. The report was contained in the United Nations International Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade). UN Comtrade, ...
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NVBF President, Nimrod, Emerges CAVB Zone 3 Secretary General
By Olawale Ayeni, Abuja The president of the Nigeria Volleyball Federation (NVBF), Engineer Musa Nimrod has emerged secretary-general of African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB) Zone 3. Nimrod Urges Govt To Build Community Sports Centers He described his emergence at the elections held last Saturday virtually as a call to duty, ...
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OPEC Applauds Russia For Provision Of COVID-19 Vaccines To Nigeria
By FESTUS OKOROMADU | Secretary general of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, has commended the Russian Federation for the provision of COVID-19 vaccines to several African countries, including Nigeria. He however expressed concerns over the future of the global economy as Western economies continue to ...
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2023: Violence Will Decrease As New Electoral Law Ready In June – Lawan
Electoral Offences Commission underway BY BODE GBADEBO, Abuja Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the 2023 General Elections will see a drastic reduction in electoral violence after the passage of the amended version of the Electoral Act in June this year by the National Assembly. Lawan gave the ...
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Ex-IGP Okiro Bags COCSON’s Man Of The Year
By Tunde Oguntola, Abuja A former inspector general of police (IGP) Sir Mike Mbama Okiro has emerged as Coalition of Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria (COCSON’s) Man of the Year 2020 for his outstanding contributions to national security and human development while in office. The coalition also honours the former ...
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No Date For Appointment Of New IGP Yet – Presidency
BY EJIKE EJIKE, Abuja with agency re￾port The presidency yesterday clarifies on the tenure of the inspector general of Police adding that there is no date set for the announcement. Current IGP Mohammed Adamu was expected to have left office yesterday haven attained the retirement age. Speaking on Channels Television’s ...
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Wike And The Gains Of Good Governance
BY BALA HARUNA MUSA There is no gainsaying that Rivers Sta￾te is the project hub of the new Nigeria . Or, how will one explain the force of gravity that pulls eminent citizens of Ni￾geria every other day, to join Governor Nyesom Wike to commission projects in other part of ...
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PDP And The Fading Hopes Of Reconciliation In S’West
A stakeholders’ meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to broker peace between the feuding factions in the South West region failed to hold following boycott by loyalists of former Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, suggesting that the crisis is far from over. ADEBIYI ADEDAPO captures the intrigue Suspension of ...
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Tony Elumelu Foundation Announces 3 Senior Executive Appointments
By BUKOLA IDOWU, Lagos Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced has announced three senior executive appointments, effective February 1, 2021. The appointments include Somachi Chris-Asoluka, director, partnerships and communications, Titilope Akinola, director of operations and Nkem Onwudiwe who joins the marketing and corporate communications team. This follows the launch ...
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Investment Tribunal: NDIC Moves To Appeal N5m Judgment
BY MARK ITSIBOR, Abuja Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has said it will appeal the judgment by the Investments and Securities Tribunal, ordering the commission to pay Winners Medical Diagnostic & Research Institute Ltd N5 million. The amount is said to be the value of 2, 500, 000 units ...
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Ericsson Ranks Among World’s Most Sustainable Companies
BY CHIMA AKWAJA, Lagos Ericsson has been ranked as one of the most sustainable companies, landing a place on the 2021 Corporate Knight’s Global 100 list. The Global 100 list which was released on January 25, 2021 incorporates data collected from annual reports, sustainability reports, and company websites to score ...
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20 Years Of GSM: Challenges And Opportunities Before NCC
CHIMA AKWAJA in this piece, takes a look at the myriad of challenges in the Nigerian telecommunications industry that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) must address to ensure that Nigeria’s digital economy vision is realised. Two decades after the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) opened the Nigerian telecom space to ...
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COVID-19 Will End Foreign Medical Trip – SAN
By KUNLE OLASANMI, Abuja A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and former attorney-general of Imo state, Mr Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume, has said the coronavirus pandemic has some salutary effects on Nigeria as it would end foreign medical tourism by the elite. Ume, a rapporteur of Victims of Persecution, a non-governmental organisation, ...
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Rotary Club Organises Seminar For Enterpreneurs
By Jerry Emmanson | Rotary Club of Abuja Municipal has organized an entrepreneurship education workshop for over 40 prospective enterprenuers to mark the Rotary Vocational Service month. The event in collaboration with Meaningful Life Foundation, held on January 28 with the aim of providing business management skills to empower young ...
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CBN’s Unconventional Policies As Paradigm Shift
Apart from its widely known core mandate of ensuring monetary and financial system stability; issuance of legal tender in Nigeria; promoting a sound financial system; and acting as Banker and providing economic and financial advice to the federal government, many do not know that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ...
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El-Rufai Committed To Health For All – Deputy Gov
KADUNA WEEKLY Kaduna State has enrolled more than 400,000 people on the Health Insurance Scheme as it has registered 391,254 persons in the formal sector, 681 in the informal sector and 12,454 vulnerable persons in the last one year. The Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe who spoke at the End ...
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Nigeria Needs Problem-solving Research, TETFund Tells Varsities
Executive secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Professor Sulieman Bogoro has tasked universities to engage in problem-solving research and build a knowledge-based economy to ensure global competitiveness. Bogoro, who spoke as a guest lecturer at the Catholic Veritas University’s 9th convocation ceremony at the weekend, stressed the important roles of ...