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Nigeria
Anti-corruption fight, a difficult one – Osinbajo
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday admitted that the present administration’s ongoing anti-corruption fight is a difficult one. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Vice-President spoke while receiving a delegation of the Nigerian Association of Law Teachers at ...
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Nigeria
$17bn stolen crude: FG prepares criminal charge against IOCs, says AGF
John Ameh, Abuja The Federal Government is considering the option of filing criminal charges against International Oil Companies implicated in the alleged export of $17bn worth of Nigeria’s undeclared crude and gas resources between 2011 and 2014. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, disclosed ...
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Nigeria
Abia to establish 9,000-hectare free trade zone
Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia on Tuesday said that the state would establish a 9,000- hectare free trade zone at its boundary with Rivers. Ikpeazu made this known when Chief Olabitan Famutimi, the National President of Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC), visited him in his guest house in Aba. Ikpeazu ...
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Camerun Etiopia Nigeria
Lake Chad Basin: a crisis rooted in hunger, poverty and lack of rural development
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Country: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, NigeriaLake Chad lost some 90 percent of its water mass with devastating consequences on the food security and livelihoods of people depending on fishing and irrigation-based activities.FAO Director-General calls for critical investments in agriculture and addressing climate change 11 ...
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USA Kenya Etiopia Nigeria Yemen
UNHCR says death risk from starvation in Horn of Africa, Yemen, Nigeria growing, displacement already rising
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, YemenThis warning is in light of droughts that are also affecting many neighbouring countries and a funding shortfall so severe that an avoidable humanitarian crisis in the region, possibly worse than that ...
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Nigeria
NUT Tasks State Govts On Funding Of Primary Education
Mr Ikpe Obong, the Secretary General, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has appealed to state governments to pay adequate attention to funding of primary education in the country. Obong told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja that management of primary schools was purely the duty of ...
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Turchia Nigeria
Turkiye Diyanet: Legacy Of Lending Helping Hands, Supporting Indigents
Over the last two years, Turkey’s intervention in Nigeria – education, economy, health etc – rose to dizzying heights, long before the entrenchment of the current brouhaha about what is true and what is not, since the coup d’etat which threatened that country’s unity. This intervention has come in a ...
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Nigeria
CBN Opens Forex Window For SMEs, Sells $141m
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has opened a special Forex window for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to enable SMEs import eligible finished and semi-finished items not exceeding $20,000 for an enterprise per quarter. Acting Director, Corporate Communication of the CBN, Isaac Okorafor, in a statement yesterday said the ...
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Nigeria
MAN, Shippers’ Council Collaborate To Reflate Economy
The numerous accolades and attestations conferred on Nigeria Shippers’ Council (NSC) by various organizations allude to the general perception that the Council is a change agent. Last year, when the World Bank officials visited the Council headquarters at Apapa, they were astonished by the outstanding road map/service developed by the ...
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USA
De jeunes orphelins chez les étudiants de l’ESAA
Mettant à profit une journée de solidarité, les étudiants de première année de l’Ecole supérieure algérienne des affaires (ESAA), domiciliée aux Pins Maritimes (sur la route menant à Bordj El Kiffan), ont invité les jeunes orphelins (âgés de 4 à 15 ans) de l’association Kafil El Yatim de Dély Ibrahim ...