• Nigeria

    Demand for toads rises in Jigawa

    Toad sellers are recording high sales in Hadejia, Jigawa, due to the growing demand of the aquatic animal, the News Agency of Nigeria, reports. The toad is a brown, tailless amphibian with a short stout body and short legs, typically having dry warty skin. Not a popular delicacy in the ...

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    PDP factions trade insults as Supreme Court hears appeal today

    John Alechenu, Fidelis Soriwei  and Ade Adesomoju , Abuja The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff,  has said the Supreme Court should not hear an appeal filed by the sacked National Caretaker Committee of the party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi. Although, hearing in the ...

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    Sanusi advises Ganduje on education, economy

    Ted Odogwu, Kano The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Sunday in  Kano counselled the state government to focus more attention on the education sector, stressing that a knowledge-based economy is the key to development. “Education holds the key to our development. We must continue to give priority ...

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    NAPTIP hunts Europe-based trafficking barons

    Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters says it has called for the arrest and prosecution of some foreign-based human trafficking syndicates. The Director-General of the agency, Julie Okah-Donli, said this while hosting the Spanish Embassy in her office, adding ...

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    CBN seeks rates convergence as MPC meets

    Today’s Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)-led Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting will push for exchange rates convergence and the shoring up of the naira’s value, it was learnt yesterday. MPC members are targeting how to ensure that the gap between official and parallel markets shrink further and engender confidence of ...

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    Osinbajo to explain Executive Orders

    Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will explain how the Executive Orders he signed last week on  boositing the economy will function when he meets on Wednesday with a cross-section of middle level and senior public and civil servants. Senior Special Assistant on Media to the acting President Laolu Akande said yesterday ...

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    ‘Enact whistle blowers protection law’

    While the Federal Government basks in the success of the whistle blowing policy, there is the urgent need to ensure that the programme is sustainable and that whistle blowers are guaranteed protection from intimidation, threat or victimisation through the passage of a Whistle Blowers Protection Law. Speaking at the weekend, ...

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    RenCap: economic stability returning to Nigeria

    A financial management firm, Renaissance Capital, has said Nigeria’s economy is gradually returning to stability. The firm, which met with corporates across the banks, consumer and building materials space during its Eighth Annual  Pan-Africa 1:1 Investor conference in Lagos between May 10 and 11, said return of stability to the economy ...

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    ‘We’re partnering private sector in creating jobs’

    The Lagos State Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment was created by the Akinwunmi Ambode Administration to address unemployment as well as under-employment challenges. Its Commissioner Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti says the government will partner the private sector to solve these problems, reports Simeon Ebulu. The hue and cry of government’s desire ...

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    Season of ports’ strike

    For three days last week, business activities at the nation’s sea ports were paralysed by strike. After the intervention of stakeholders in the maritime sector, the protesters issued a fresh 21-day ultimatum to the government to address the issues leading to the deplorable condition of the roads to the ports, ...