STANDARD CHARTERED EMPLOYEES RAISE $720,000 FOR CHARITY
Standard Chartered employees have initiated a $720,000 fundraising targeted at improving eye care across its markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East by 2020. the initiative, tagged ‘Seeing is believing’, was initiated by Standard Chartered employees in 2003 as a way of celebrating the bank’s 150th anniversary.
Over the years, employees have shown a deep commitment to fundraising for the programme, contributing around 70 percent of the fund-raising. As a result, ‘Seeing is believing’ has become the group’s flagship fundraising programme, raising $37 million so far.
Published in Business Day Newspaper, on Monday, 30th Jan. 2012
BUSINESSDAY READERS DONATE N4.6M TO LESS PRIVILEDGE IN 2011
Esteemed readers of BusinessDay Newspaper donated about N4, 587,931 to the less priviledged between February 2011 and January 2012. Apart from N130,000 donated as cash, the remaining funds were lodged by the donors in Dollar-A-Day Account opened specifically to receive donations on behave of the beneficiaries.
About 72 individuals with at least 300 dependants benefitted from these funds in 2011, bringing the number of individuals that have benefited from the Dollar-A-Day to almost 200 since it was launched in January 2010. As part of its objective of promoting enterprise, BusinessDay, two years ago, came up with the idea of featuring hardworking Nigerians in the lower income cadre, in their struggle to make ends meet.
Published in Business Day Newspaper, on Monday, 30th Jan. 2012
AMUWO-ODOFIN EMPOWERS THE ACTIVE POOR
About 23 individuals referred to as the economically active poor, have received a lifeline from Amuwo Odofin Local Government. The benefits came to the people at the recent flag – off of the Amuwo – Odofin Micro Credit Scheme, held at the LG Secretariat.
The scheme, which is aimed at providing easy access to soft loan facilities to petty traders, attracts 1.5 percent interest payable over a six month period, and it attracts no collateral. The local government also got support from Bola Ahmed Tinubu Outreach Foundation to take care of the poor.
Published in Business Day Newspaper, on Monday, 30th Jan. 2012
FG TARGETS ONE MILLION JOBS THROUGH TECHNICAL EDUCATION
The Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said the Federal Government will invest in technical and vocational education to create about one million jobs. He said the government was more committed to empowering the growing population of unemployed Nigerian youths to enable them to meaningfully to national development.
The Principal of Highbury College, Stella Mbubaegbu, said that the school would avail Nigeria
Published in Punch Newspaper, on Monday, 30th Jan. 2012
The Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria , Chris Cooter, has decried the huge gap between the demands of Nigeria
The envoy said Nigerians shouldn’t be crying out about growing unemployment while companies I Nigeria continued to spread to developing countries for skilled manpower.
Published in Punch Newspaper, on Monday, 30th Jan. 2012
The research also found out that Twitter in Africa was widely used for social conversation, with 81 per cent of those polled saying that they mainly used it for communicating with friends. The research said, “Twitter is becoming an important source of information in Africa . 68 per cent of those polled said they use Twitter to monitor news. 22 percent use it search for employment opportunities.
Published in Punch Newspaper, on Monday, 30th Jan. 2012
CONSUMER COUNCIL BACKS ELECTRONIC DRAW
The Consumer Protection Council has backed the adoption of electronic draws during promos saying it enhances transparency. The Head, Product Marketing, Samsung Mobile
According to him, 50 winners have become proud owners of Samsung 32’’ LCD TV, 75 people also are automatic owners of Samsung solar powered net books in addition to 150 others who have won Samsung DVDs players
Published in Punch Newspaper, on Monday,30th Jan. 2012
WORLD BANK SEES CARBON FINANCE ROLE FOR YEARS
The World Bank's carbon finance initiatives will likely be needed for at least five years, as the United Nations struggles to create a self-sufficient, international carbon market, the manager of the bank's carbon finance unit told Reuters. Negotiators at December's U.N. climate talks in South Africa
But the uncertainty over how Kyoto's existing market-based mechanisms should or could be included in a future pact that includes all major emitters means the World Bank is years away from ending its development role for carbon finance.
Published in Punch Newspaper, on Monday, 30th Jan. 2012
FG, ONDO STATE SIGN MoU ON
As part of the measures to boost Federal Government Programme on production of high quality cassava, the Ministry of Agricultre has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ondo State Government in order to boost its value – chain to cassava production.
The partnership agreement took place during a courtesy visit by the state Governor, Olusegun Mimiko to the minister at the weekend in Abuja Ondo State
Published in Punch Newspaper, on Tuesday, 31st Jan. 2012
UTC NIGERIA COMMISSIONS FOOD COURT LAGOS
UTC Nigeria Plc, at the weekend, opened a N100 million confectioneries and meat outlet at Victoria Island, lagos
Corporate Affairs Manager, Olotu Ibru said “we want to increase people, who would belong to the healthy food brigade. Because if you heat healthy, productivity improves in the country generally and at the same time the mortality rate drops with a healthy population. This retail harm is going to sell confectionery, meat and then healthy lifestyle.
Published in Punch Newspaper, on Tuesday, 31st Jan. 2012
SOVEREIGN TRUST PARTNERS FIRM ON MEDICAL TRAVEL
Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc said it is partnering a London-based underwriting firm to provide adequate medical travel insurance cover for travellers. It said the product is designed to provide cover for an intending traveller for a period of time while the individual is away from his / her home or business to a foreign country.
Head of Corporate Communications and Brand Management, Mr Segun Bankole said, the company is poised to delight Nigerian travellers with its own brand of medical travel insurance that has fully taken off.
Published in The Nation Newspaper, on Wednesday, 1st Feb. 2012
FREE HEALTH CARE FOR THE NEEDY
For two days nursing mothers, their babies and children trooped to a primary school in Bare, a village about 15 minutes drive from Ibadan , Oyo State
Assisted by some medical doctors from Nigeria Baptist, Ogbomoso, Professor Slusher gave treatment to the children under ages 0 – 5 who came with different health challenges ranging from malnutrition, malaria to infections of the chest and lungs.
Published in The Nation Newspaper, on Wednesday, 1st Feb. 2012
NGO PROFFERS SOLUTION TO CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE
To address the challenge of climate change, a non governmental organisation, Water Safety Initiative Foundation, has stressed the need for the government to adhere to Kyoto Protocol of 1997. The organisation said this would help to address the problems of intense flash – flooding, landslides, gully erosions ea level rise, heat wave and other changes in weather variations which are currently causing green house and depletion of ozone layer.
Addressing newsmen in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State Capital, the Country Director of the organisation, Victor Matthew, stated that these and other problems have predisposed the earth and the entire humanity into one huge, vulnerable victim.
Published in The Nation Newspaper, on Wednesday, 1st Feb. 2012
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY IMPROVES COMMUNITY’S ECONOMY
The bank, in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Mines and a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has conducted assessment visits to the community and decided to assist the society to establish a quarry worth over N16m. According to Agashi, when the Director-General of the National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr Paul Orhii, commenced the renovation of the primary school he had attended, he bought granite from the society.
The patronage, he said, coupled with subsequent ones from the state government which used granite in the renovation of primary schools in Makurdi, Ukum, Guma and Logo local government areas enabled the society to pay the counterpart fund of close to N6m.
Published in The Nation Newspaper, on Wednesday, 1st Feb. 2012
FED GOVT TO TAKE ALMAJIRIS OFF THE STREETS
Minister of State for Education Nyesom Wike has unveiled the Federal Government’s plans to tackle the Almajiri problem in the North. Wike said this challenge would be tackled through giving them basic education. The minister said classrooms would be built for the Almajiri.
He also said the ministry also plans to develop facilities for girl-child education in the North and out-of-school boy-child in the Southeast and the improve facilities for nomadic education for the children of Fulani herdsmen and those of the itinerant fishermen in the Southsouth. Wike, at a meeting with all the directors and executive secretaries superintending basic education in the country, including principals of Federal Unity Colleges, said there was need for a feasible time-table to drive basic education.
Published in The Nation Newspaper, on Wednesday, 1st Feb. 2012
The Federal Ministry of Health is to partner with the ministry of youth development to advance public health care in the rural areas. Minister of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu who said this in Abuja
Chukwu said that NYSC have a role to play in the realization of MDGs 4,5 and 6 by 2015 which affects the health ministry directly.
Chukwu said that NYSC have a role to play in the realization of MDGs 4,5 and 6 by 2015 which affects the health ministry directly.
Published in The Compass Newspaper, on Thursday, 2nd Feb. 2012
BAYELSA COMMUNITIES LAUD CHEVRON OVER RELIEF MATERIALS
Community leaders in Bayelsa State
According to them, the gesture by the NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture was indicative of the company’s social responsibility and sensitivity to the needs of the people adding that “this will go a long way to further strengthen the cordial relationship the company has with the communities”.
Published in The Nigeria
EDUCATION: OSUN TO SPEND N30BN ON INFRASTRUCTURE
The Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has inaugurated a 10-man committee saddled with the responsibility of development of infrastructure for public primary and secondary schools in the state with a budget of N30 billion. Giving reason for the setting up of the committee, the governor said the target of his administration was to turn around the educational sector in the state beyond what was achieved during the era of Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
He expressed regrets that school buildings erected during the premiership tenure of Chief Awolowo had begun to crumble, due to what he referred to as a long time neglect. Aregbesola stressed that his administration was determined to rebuild the schools, in view of the debilitation of infrastructural facilities in public schools across the state.
Published in The Nation Newspaper, on Thursday, 2nd Feb. 2012
LAGOS
Respite may come the way of the January 27, 2002 Ikeja military cantonment bomb blast victims as the Lagos State government is set to dole out relief materials worth millions of naira to them tomorrow. The state government also said that children of the victims would be given scholarship. Among the people to benefit from the gesture are the divers who participated in the rescue operation of the victims from Oke-Afa canal.
Addressing journalists at the state secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, the Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr Wale Ahmed, said the government is embarking on the gesture on compassionate ground. Ahmed said the divers would be given formal training. He said:”Ever since the incidence, the state has continually been doing something in the lives of the affected victims and people of Oke-Afa community. “This commemoration will be the tenth memorial, and we are building a commemorative wall listing names of people we could identify to serve as something in their memory. “Children who lost parent will be given scholarship to ensure that they are not disadvantaged educationally as a result of the incident. “All we have done and we are still doing does not mean we are responsible for the unfortunate incident and that we are giving compensation.”
Published in Daily Independent Newspaper, on Thursday, 2nd Feb. 2012
PATHS2, PARTNERS SET PATH TO CHEAP ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS IN LAGOS
The dream of access to cheap anti-malaria drugs in Nigeria
The initiative to provide improvement in the treatment of malaria at reduced costs is being undertaken in collaboration with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, CHAI, the Federal Ministry of Health and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies in the country, through the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria, AMFm, initiative.
Published in Vanguard Newspaper, on Thursday, 2nd Feb. 2012
FIGHTING PNEUMONIA IN COMMUNITIES TO FAST TRACK MDG4
At a two day conference organised by the Paediatric Association of Nigeria held at the Conference Hall of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile – Ife , Osun State Nigeria
During one of the sessions, leading infant nutrition firm, Pfizer Nutrition, explained that in reducing the burden of Pneumococcal disease in school under the specified age will help fast track development in children and the rest of the society in the country
Published in ThisDay Newspaper, on Friday, 2nd Feb. 2012
CITIBANK UNVEILS COMPETITION FOR JOURNALISTS
Citi Bank yesterday called for entries in the 2012 ‘Citi Journalistic Excellence Awards’ for Nigerian journalists. A statement from the bank said the competition would be open to business journalists in the country.
According to the statement, “The Citi Journalistic Excellence awards allows winning journalists to participate in an elite journalism seminar administered by the prestigious Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and sponsored by CitiBank.
Published in ThisDay Newspaper, on Friday, 3rd Feb. 2012
FIDELITY DONATES EQUIPMENTS TO MASSEY HOSPITAL
As part of its contribution to the development of the society, members of staff of Fidelity Bank Plc, yesterday donated two Radiant Warmer machines and one Oxygen Concentrator to Massey Street Children’s Hospital, Lagos State
The equipment worth over N1 million, was purchased by the members of staff of the Corporate Banking Department of the commercial bank.
Published in ThisDay Newspaper, on Friday, 3rd Feb. 2012
GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO SUBSIDISE DRUGS FOR CANCER
The need by the government to subsidize drugs for cancer patients was yesterday restated as the country prepares to celebrate the World’s Cancer Day. The World’s Cancer Day, which is commemorated yearly was launched in 2005 by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to save millions of preventable death each year by raising awareness and education about cancer all over the world.
To this end, the activities of some non – professionals in not only handling cancer patients but referring them to teaching hospitals when the patient’s case have become critical was also frowned at.
Published in National Mirror Newspaper, on Friday, 3rd Feb. 2012
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