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    Investment: FG asks embassies to fast-track visa issuance

    Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Federal Government has directed all its foreign missions abroad to commence a 48-hour visa issuance regime for those willing to do business with Nigerians. It said the bottlenecks associated with visa issuance in all its foreign missions should be discontinued in order to make it easy ...

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    Osinbajo, Saraki, Dogara meet on economy, 2017 budget

    Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, and some ministers on Tuesday met with the leadership of the National Assembly on the nation’s economy currently in recession as well as the 2017 Appropriation Bill currently being debated by federal lawmakers. Those who attended the meeting that took place inside ...

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    Nigeria, others to increase immunisation coverage

    Bukola Adebayo African Heads of State have pledged to increase investment in immunisation coverage on the continent. The leaders made the commitment at the 28th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are to increase their country’s political and financial investments in vaccination programmes . The World Health Organisation Regional ...

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    ASCSN threatens to shut down NHIS offices

    Friday Olokor, Abuja The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, in Abuja, on Tuesday handed down a 21-day ultimatum within which the management of National Health Insurance Scheme, should reverse its “illegal secondment of staff,” or risk a shutdown of ...

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    ‘Safety culture in manufacturing poor’

    A group, NFPAWA ,  has decried the low level of safety culture in manufacturing companies in the country. It said time has come for organisations take the issue of safety seriously. Its Programme Director, Antonia Beri, who spoke in Lagos yesterday, said the manufacturing sector has become very important to the ...

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    Turning cassava waste to wealth

    The food industry has been making an impact because of its potential for value addition. Like food waste and animal feed, cassava peels have the potential of becoming big business.DANIEL ESSIET reports ost farms in Ilero in Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo State are full of cassava. The crop ...

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    Business in brief: Tel Aviv shares eke out gain despite Teva sell-off

    Bond sales climbed 40% in January to reach 7.5 billion shekels; former IDB chief Nochi Dankner suspended from Bar Association; Goldman Sachs chosen to head sale of Bank Leumi credit card unit.

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    Historic commitment from African heads of state to advance immunization

    Source: African Union, World Health Organization Country: Ethiopia, WorldOne in five children in Africa still does not receive basic life-saving vaccines and, as a result, vaccine-preventable diseases continue to claim too many lives.31 January 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Today, Heads of State from across Africa endorsed the Addis Declaration on ...

  • Yemen

    Fighting worsens humanitarian crisis in Yemen's Taizz governorate

    Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Country: YemenThe Humanitarian Coordinator calls on all parties to the conflict to urgently ensure humanitarian partners have access to affected civilians in the Dhubab and Al Mokha districts. Sana'a, 31 January 2017 I am extremely concerned about the safety ...

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    Dangote Set to Diversify Investment in Ethiopia

    [Ethiopian Herald] Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn conferred with the Nigerian business tycoon Aliko Dangote Friday.