Nigeria
Vai alla Scheda Paese »A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
— Chinua Achebe
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$30bn Revenue Loss: Reps To Engage 24 Banks, 14 Oil Coys
LEADERSHIP : The joint committees of the House of Representatives on Finance and Banking and Currency will begin an investigative hearing over an alleged loss of $30 billion revenue annually due to leakages. The committee co-chaired by Hon. James Faleke (APC, Lagos) and Hon. Victor Nwokolo (PDP, Delta), will engage ...
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Kano Govt Approves N2.36bn For Zawaciki Inland Port Project
LEADERSHIP : Kano State Executive Council has approved the sum of N2.36billion for the provision of critical infrastructure at the proposed site of Inland Dry Port, Zawachiki, Kumbotso local government area of the state. This was contained in a statement issued by the commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba, on the outcome of ...
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Appeal Court Affirms Bello’s Re-election As Kogi Gov
LEADERSHIP : The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the election of Mr Yahaya Bello as the governor of Kogi State. A five-man panel of justices of the court upheld Governor Bello’s election in a judgement delivered yesterday. The court had dismissed the appeals filed by four political ...
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NSITF Management Squandered N3.4bn – Minister
LEADERSHIP : Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has said that the Managing Director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Mr Bayo Somefun, and some members of his Executive lavished N3.4 billion on non￾existent Staff training split into about 196 different consultancy contracts in order to evade ...
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Therapist, Kukoyi Donates Household Items To Lagos Community
LEADERSHIP : Trending beauty and sex therapist, Tobi Kukoyi in partnership with YANA Foundation extended a charitable deed to underserved community in Apogbon Isale of Ketu, Lagos recently to donate household items to residents of the community. The Mydsiac boss with a heart of gold expressed that giving to the ...
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EDITORIAL : Nigeria And The Naysayers
LEADERSHIP : There is no doubt that Nigeria is buffeted on all sides by myriad of problems that are giving the nay-sayers the opportunity to indulge in prognosis of a negative kind. Before now, some foreign powers had predicted that the nation would disintegrate in 2015. They based their calculations ...
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Domestic Abuse: NAS Urges FG To Enforce Law
LEADERSHIP : The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates’ Confraternity), Abuja City Centre, has called on the federal government to strengthen and enforce stringent laws that would curb the incessant rape cases recorded in the country. The Steerera, Sahara Deck of the group, Obiekwe Isaac, who made the call in an ...
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NSITF Management Denies Being Sacked By PMB
LEADERSHIP : The management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has countered reports that it had been sacked and replaced by the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige. Reacting to media reports of the purported sack, the NSITF Management led by its Managing Director and Chief Executive, Bayo Somefun, ...
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Rotary Club Of Lagos Donates Birth Delivery Kits To Itamarun Health Centre
LEADERSHIP : As part of its interventionist initiatives in Itamarun Health Centre, in Lekki Free Trade Zone Area of Lagos, the President of the Rotary Club of Lagos, Dare Adeyeri on behalf of members donated some birth delivery kits to Itamarun Health Centre for the use of expectant mothers in ...
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N-PoD Suggests Local Capacity Devt As Tool To Rejuvenating Nigeria Economy
LEADERSHIP : The office of the special assistant to the President on policy development and analysis, Mr Ibrahim Bapetel Hassan, at its 1st Online Monthly Roundtable, on Thursday, July 2, 2020, suggested local capacity building and utilisation as a strong tool to rejuvenating the Nigeria economy, while discussing on the ...
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AKK Gas Pipeline: Blueprint For Nigeria’s Industrialisation
LEADERSHIP : peep into history affirms the key role of oil in sustaining Nigeria’s economy, but a new focus on gas is set to revolutionise the sector and prove that Nigeria’s resource is not to be underestimated, writes CHIKA IZUORA. The Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline a 614km- long natural gas pipeline ...
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PMB Suspends NSITF Boss, Others
LEADERSHIP : President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate and indefinite suspension from Office of the Managing Director/Chief Executive of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Mr Adebayo Somefun. Sen Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, in a statement by Charles Akpan of the Press and Public Relations ...
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KDHA Approves Sum Of Over N223b As Revised Budget For Year 2020
LEADERSHIP : The Kaduna State House of Assembly has approved the sum of N223, 601, 718, 760. 69 billion as the revised budget for the year 2020 as against the sum N259, 250, 819, 733.65 earlier approved. The Chairman House Committee on budget, finance and appropriation, Hon. Ahmad Muhammad Chokali ...
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Customs Generates N1.1bn From Importers In 6 Months
LEADERSHIP : The comptroller general of the Nigeria Customs Service’s (NCS), Strike force in Zone ‘A’ said it has raised a Debit Note (DN) worth more than N1.104 billion from importers of cargo that made false declaration on cargoes at the Lagos seaports. The DN which was generated by the ...
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NB’s Shareholders Approve N16bn Dividend For 2019
LEADERSHIP : Shareholders of Nigerian Breweries (NB) Plc, have approved a total dividend of N16.1 billion for the year ended December 31, 2020. They gave their approval at the Nigerian Breweries’ 74th annual general meeting (AGM) which held in Lagos, recently. The total dividend translates to a dividend per share ...
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Emzor Partners Freedom Foundation To Help Rehabilitate Drug Abusers
LEADERSHIP : Nigeria’s leading Pharmaceutical company, Emzor Pharmaceuticals Limited has taken its anti- drug abuse advocacy to the next level as the company engaged Freedom Foundation in a strategic partnership to help in the rehabilitation process of drug abusers. Freedom Foundation is a non-profit organization, committed to addressing the ever-mounting ...
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OPay Donates 300,000 Face Masks To Support Fight Against Spread of COVID-19 In Nigeria
LEADERSHIP : Top Nigerian financial service technology company, OPay has donated 300,000 medical face masks to hospitals and healthcare centres in Nigeria as part of its #DoMore initiative programme to support the fight against COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. According to the company, the donation is part of OPay’s recently announced ...
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Enugu State Records 66 New Cases Of COVID-19
LEADERSHIP : The Enugu State Government announced 66 new cases of the novel Coronavirus disease, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 327. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ikechukwu Obi, made the announcement in a statement on Thursday in Enugu. Obi said that the ministry confirmed the 66 ...
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Disability Rights: Accolades For PMB And Call For More Action
LEADERSHIP : Love him or hate him, President Muhammadu Buhari has done more for persons living with disabilities than any President in Nigeria’s history. The President is therefore Nigeria’s only inclusive President. His records speak for him. He was the first President to recognize that persons living with disabilities are ...
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Orelope-Adefulire Commend PMB Over SDGs Implementation
LEADERSHIP : The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, yesterday commended President Muhamadu Buhari on the implementation of sustainable Development Goals SDGs Goals in Nigeria. Orelope-Adefulire made the commendation with LEADERSHIP shortly after the virtual inception workshop on ‘Nigeria Integrated National Financing Framework’ yesterday ...
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Concerns Over Sustainability Of Nigeria’s Polio-free Status
LEADERSHIP : With the recent declaration of Nigeria a Wild Polio-free country by the World Health Orga￾nisation (WHO), health experts and stakehol- ders have expressed worry about the prepa￾redness of the country to sustain the status. According to them, the Nigerian govern￾ment would have to put some measures in place ...