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— Chinua Achebe
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Foreign airlines regretting not using Kaduna airport – FG
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja Foreign airlines that refused to use the Kaduna International Airport as an alternative to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, are currently regretting their decisions, the Federal Government has said. The only foreign carrier that had agreed to operate into the Kaduna airport, Ethiopian Airline, flew in ...
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Spraying, Hawking, Killing The Naira, Hurting The Economy
The currency of any country is a source of pride to its citizens. That explains why every country frowns at any form of abuse of its legal tender currency. Here in Nigeria, the abuse of the Naira is one that has continued to be a challenge to the relevant authorities. ...
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HIV Intervention Ratings: FG Faults Monitoring, Evaluation
The Federal Government has picked holes in the continued poor ratings of the HIV intervention programme in Nigeria by foreign evaluators, insisting that Nigeria had fared well in its response irrespective of any other country’s progress. The Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire said this at the occasion ...
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What Customs Did To Auto Assembly Plants, Warehouse
The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has sealed-off a warehouse filled with foreign parboiled rice allegedly smuggled into the country and two auto dealers, assemblers in Lagos for infractions on their import transactions. The Customs in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer ...
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UN underlines need for gender equality to end hunger and poverty
Source: International Fund for Agricultural Development, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Country: WorldLeaders from the three UN Rome-based agencies marked International Women's Day by reinforcing their commitments to step up efforts to invest in the capacities of rural women as key agents of change in building ...
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Chinese nationals, Nigerian arraigned for importing fake tyres
Two Chinese nationals, Tao Shen and Jing Yau, were on Wednesday arraigned before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of a Federal High Court in Lagos, over charges bordering on alleged importation of fake tyres. Shen, 36, and Yau, 22, were charged alongside a Nigerian, Chinedu Madubuike and two companies, Sino Nig. Import ...
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Ex-ICAN president, Ajaegbu defects to APC
Ebere Uzoukwa, Umuahia A former President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Mr. Chidi AJAEGBU, has defected to the All Progressives Congress in Abia State. The former ICAN boss, who served as Director of Finance, Abia PDP, during the 2015 general elections, said he left his former party ...
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BREAKING: Three banks take over Etisalat Nigeria
Ozioma Ubabukoh A consortium of some foreign and Nigerian banks on Wednesday took over Etisalat Nigeria after the telecommunications company failed to pay a loan totalling $1.72bn (about N541.8bn) it obtained in 2015. The Nigerian banks are Guaranty Trust Bank, Access Bank and Zenith Bank. A former executive director at ...
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BoI, Diamond Bank Partner On Micro Loan To Petty Traders, Farmers
The Bank of Industry (BoI) says it has partnered Diamond Bank to provide soft loan to traders, artisans, cooperatives, youth and farmers in the country The Acting Managing Director, BoI, Mr Waheed Olagunju, made this known at the launching of the programme late on Tuesday in Lagos. Olagunju said that ...
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Glo Pledges Continued Support For Preservation Of Cultural Heritage
Total telecommunications solutions provider, Globacom, has restated its resolve to continue to support the promotion of Nigeria’s arts and culture. The company’s Chairman, Dr. Mike Adenuga. Jr., made the pledge in a goodwill message he sent to the 2017 Lisabi Festival which ended in Abeokuta, Ogun State, over the weekend. ...
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GE, Tony Elumelu Foundation Partner On Lagos Garage
Multinational energy giant, General Electric (GE), and leading entrepreneurship promoter, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), have announced a partnership that would allow up to 25 TEF Entrepreneurs to participate in a dedicated 4-week advanced manufacturing training programme every year at GE’s Lagos Garage – a hub for advanced manufacturing-based innovation, ...
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FIRS Makes N27bn From Tax Waiver Programme
The executive chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Tunde Fowler, has disclosed that the agency realised the sum of N27.086 billion from the waiver of tax penalty and interest programme. Fowler disclosed this yesterday in Abuja during the oversight visit by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance to the ...
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Ekweremadu Tasks Onnoghen On Rule of Law, Independence of Judiciar
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has charged the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen, on the protection of the rule of law and independence of the judiciary. According to a statement by his media aide, Uche Anichukwu, he gave the charge yesterday in ...
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Customs ultimatum on old vehicles arbitrary, unlawful – Senate
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate on Tuesday asked the Nigeria Customs Service to suspend action on the plan to clamp down on vehicles without correct duty papers. The upper chamber of the National Assembly asked the leadership of the NSC to appear before its Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff ...
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Audu to oversee ECOWAS drug unit advocacy
AdelaniAdepegba, Abuja A marketing communications consultant and public affairs strategist, Haroun Audu has been selected into a pool of resource persons for the ECOWAS Commission Headquarters, Abuja. Audu has been as a communications expert to oversee and execute the communication and visibility plan of a European Union fully-funded project in ...
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Cleansing Nigeria’s corrupt bureaucracy
LAW enforcement agencies continue to make ever more befuddling discoveries of stolen funds, just as the stench of corruption in the public service is overpowering. From fleets of vehicles and plum real estate to huge sums of money traced to them, some public sector employees have been exposed as common ...
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Cracks in FG as minister counters Buhari’s aide on US travel advisory
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja There are strong indications that the United States of America authorities’ refusal to allow some Nigerians with valid visas entry into the US has caused a division in the Federal Government. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, on Tuesday countered a travel advisory by the Senior ...
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Naira to float in 3-year economic recovery plan
CBN pumps $100m into forex market •Review of ban on forex for 41 goods •15.74% inflation target to be achieved in 2017 and 12.42 in 2018 •Better public/private sector efficiency •A knowledge-based economy •Privatisation of selected assets A market-driven exchange rate regime is in the works, going by the Federal ...
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Senate stops Customs’ duty payment on old vehicles
The Senate yesterday asked the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to halt all actions on the implementation of its circular on payment of duty on old vehicles. It said implementation of the circular should be stopped until the leadership of the NCS appeared before its committee to explain in details the ...
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Nigerians free to travel to U.S., says Fed Govt
No Nigerian with full valid entry visa has been denied entry into the United States (U.S.) contrary to reports, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama Onyeama said Nigerians were free to travel to the U.S. as the country was not on the list of six banned mainly-Muslim countries. ...
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Court Jails Drug Trafficker 3 years For Peddling 50.3kg Of Marijuana
Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday convicted and sentenced a 50-year-old man, Abdulmaroof Oshilaja, to three years imprisonment for drug trafficking. Justice Oguntoyinbo handed down the verdict after Oshilaja pleaded guilty to one count charge of Indian hemp trafficking brought against him by the National ...