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Nigeria
Bogoro Tasks Institute On Nation-fixing Research
In an efforts to attain food sufficiency and make Nigeria a knowledge economy, the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Prof. Suleiman Elias Bogoro, has called on the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T) of Obafemi Awolowo University, to develop a new focus of conducting “problem-solving and ...
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Nigeria
We’re Committed To World Bank-backed Project – Makinde
Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, has expressed his avowed commitment to the timely completion of the World Bank-backed Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project (IUFMP). The governor has also appealed to the World Bank not to withdraw its conditional no objection for the Second Pool of Long Term Investments (PLTI2) BERs, ...
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Nigeria Regno Unito
UK Spends N8.6bn On Development Projects In Kano
United Kingdom’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is spending £14.7 million (N8.6 billion) in its 2020-21 financial year on development projects in Kano State. FCDO’s development director, Christopher Pycroft, at the opening of the strategic dialogue between FCDO Nigeria and the Kano State government, revealed this yesterday, in Kano. ...
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Nigeria
Journalists’ Forum Urges End To Killings In Middle Belt
Middle Belt Journalists Forum has said it is desirous to work with credible international organisations to ending the senseless killings in the middle belt. In a press statement issued in Jos, Plateau yesterday, the president of the Middle Belt Journalists Forum, Jonathan Ipaa, said the partnership had become necessary going ...
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Nigeria
CSOs Decry Poor Breastfeeding Among Mothers
Civil society organisations, under the aiges of Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) and Save the Children, in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Health, have called for more women participation and engagement in exclusive breastfeeding. The organisations said the rate of exclusive breastfeeding, which the Nigeria Demographic and ...
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Nigeria Regno Unito
Leemon Ikpea Mourns Capt Hosa Okunbo
Executive chairman and chief executive officer of Lee Engineering and Construction Company Limited, Leemon Ikpea, has expressed shock over the death of the chairman of Ocean Marine Services Limited (OMSL), Capt. Idahosa Wells Okunbo. Ikpea said Nigeria has lost a business guru and a philanthropist. Okunbo died in a London ...
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Nigeria
Federal Govt Plans Research, Devt Foundation As TETFund Gets Draft Bill
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has received the draft executive Bill for the establishment of the National Research and Development Foundation (NRDF). The executive secretary of TETFund, Prof Suleiman Bogoro, who received the draft law from the TETFund NRDF Bill Drafting Committee in Abuja, on Wednesday, commended the Attorney General ...
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Brasile Italia
Caixa anuncia concurso específico para pessoas com deficiência
O presidente da Caixa, Pedro Guimarães, revelou hoje (11), em entrevista ao programa A Voz do Brasil, que o banco pretende abrir concurso público específico para preencher vagas de pessoas com deficiência. Segundo Guimarães, a Caixa conta atualmente com apenas 1,5% do quadro de funcionários composto por pessoas com deficiência. A ...
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Brasile
Venda de livros no primeiro semestre aumenta 48,5% em relação a 2020
O mercado de livros nacional encerrou o primeiro semestre do ano com venda de 28 milhões de exemplares, o que representa alta de 48,5% em relação aos 18,9 milhões vendidos no mesmo período de 2020. Em termos de valor, o faturamento alcançou R$ 1,19 bilhão, cerca de 39,9% a mais que ...
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USA
Poland’s divisive media law passed by parliament
Ruling Law and Justice party sidesteps attempt to delay vote on bill strongly criticised by Washington