The recent call by the Cocoa Processors Association of
Nigeria (COPAN) on the Federal Government to ban exportation of raw cocoa beans
from Nigeria has drawn the ire of the Cocoa Association of Nigeria (CAN), which
described the campaign as capable of destroying the entire national cocoa
economy.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 28th January, 2013
Appointment:
Access Bank Appoints Ndukwe Indeoendent Director
Access Bank Plc has announced the appointment of Dr. Ernest
Ndukwe to its Board as a Non-Executive Director. The appointment has been
ratified by the bank’s board of directors and the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN).
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 28th January, 2013
Philanthropy:
NDDC inaugurates more projects in Abia
In furtherance of its quest for increased infrastructural
development in the Niger Delta Region, the Niger Delta Development Commission
(NDDC) has inaugurated projects to stimulate the economy of Abia State.
The projects include the 13.7km Akwete-Umuagbai-Ndoki road linking Abia and Rivers States, the 3km Umuadienwe-Obahu-Umuturu road and the 1km Umuoforji-Okomini-Obehie road.
The projects include the 13.7km Akwete-Umuagbai-Ndoki road linking Abia and Rivers States, the 3km Umuadienwe-Obahu-Umuturu road and the 1km Umuoforji-Okomini-Obehie road.
Published in BusinessDay
Newspaper on Monday, 28th January, 2013
Investment:
GSK boosts investment in Nigeria, India consumer healthcare with N156bn
GlaxoSmithKline,
a multinational drugmaker, is to spend more than N156 billion (US1billion) to
raise the stakes in its Nigerian and Indian consumer healthcare arms.
This
is to deepen its emerging markets and consumer healthcare footprint, according
to Business Monitor Intelligence’s (BMI) forecast
for pharmaceuticals and healthcare industry across the Middle East and
Africa.
Published in
BusinessDay Newspaper on Monday, 28th January, 2013
Philanthropy:
FCMB donates 25m to flood victims in five states
The
First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has donated N25 million to flood victims in
five states including Bayelsa, Kogi, Delta, Plateau and Rivers states.
Bonaventure
Okhaimo, FCMB senior vice president, public affairs, said the money was donated through the International
Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Published in
BusinessDay Newspaper on Monday, 28th January, 2013
MDGs:
Chinese govt. hands over $12.5m hospital to Nigeria
In
an effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goal target, 2015, the Chinese
government yesterday handed over a newly-built $12.5million Federal Staff
Hospital to its Nigerian counterpart.
The
150-bed hospital, which covers 8,000 square metres, is a product of the
bilateral relationship between the two countries.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Tuesday, 29th January, 2013
Sustainability:
SMEs need assistance on sustainable business practices - ACCA
Policymakers, regulators and finance professionals must help
small businesses to adopt sustainable business practices, even as their huge impact is currently
being overlooked, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has
said.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Tuesday, 29th January, 2013
Environment:
Nigeria loses N1.011tm to oil theft, flooding
Nigeria lost N1.011 trillion ($6.439 billion) to oil theft
and production losses arising from the flooding that ravaged most parts of the
country last year, as the country recorded a decline in crude oil production in
November 2011.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Tuesday, 29th January, 2013
MDGs:
Private medical doctors seek effective ANC policy
Worried about the challenges of attainment of the fourth
Millennium Development Goal, MDG 4, by 2015, stakeholders in the
private medical sector have urged government at all levels to initiate policies
that would encourage proper antenatal procedure in the country.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Tuesday, 29th January, 2013
MDGs: UN-Habitat
launches new global consultation on wastewater
UN-Habitat's
Executive Director Dr. Joan Clos on Monday announced the lanch of a new Global
Consultation on Wastewater Management and Water Quality for the Post-2015
Development Agenda
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Tuesday, 29th January, 2013
Labour:
NDE, SURE-P create 3,000 new jobs in Ondo
Not less than 3,000 jobs have been created for unemployed
prsons by the Ondo State office of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE)
in collaboration with the Subsidy Removal Employment Programme (SURE-P) of the
Federal Government.
Published in Guardian
Newspaper on Tuesday, 22nd January, 2013
Community
Development: World Bank spends N450m on 71 Imo Communities
The World Bank, through the Imo State Agency for Community
Development Project (ISA-CSDP), has disbursed about N450 million for rural
development projects to about 71 communities in Imo State in the last four
years, General Manager of the agency, Mr. Augustine Amah, has disclosed.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 30th January, 2013
Philanthropy: Donors
raise $455m for Mali, UK deploys 350 troops to West Africa
International donors meeting in Ethiopia have pledged
$455.53m (£289m) for an international campaign tackling Islamist militants in
Mali.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 30th January, 2013
Development:
World Bank to spend $5b on projects in Nigeria
The World Bank, Tuesday, unfolded plans to spend
$5billion (about N785 billion) on 27 projects across the country in the
next five years.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 30th January, 2013
ICT:
WITIN opens mobile apps challenge for girls in Nigeria
Women
in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN) says it has unveiled a mobile application
challenge tagged ``Technovation’’ for secondary school girls in the country.
The
Chairperson of WITIN, Mrs Martha Alade, said this in a statement on Thursday
made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 30th January, 2013
Philanthropy:
First Bank donates bus to Olivet High School
First
Bank Nigeria Limited on Tuesday donated a 30-seater Toyota bus to the Olivet
High School, Oyo, Oyo State.
The
donation, according to the Chairman, First Bank, Prince Ajibola Afonja, is
in demonstration of the bank’s commitment to its corporate social
responsibility.
Published in Punch
Newspaper on Wednesday, 30th January, 2013
Investment:
Nokia invests $250m in venture funding
Finnish mobile phone maker, Nokia, said on Tuesday it would
invest $250m in a new venture fund for mobile technology startups.
Published in Punch
Newspaper on Wednesday, 30th January, 2013
Appointment: Ikeazor
Appointed Keystone Bank MD/CEO
Another change is imminent in Keystone Bank Limited as the
current Executive Director, Corporate and International/Investment Banking and
Treasury, Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Mr. Philip Ikeazor, has been appointed the
substantive Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the bank,
acquired by Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) in 2011.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Thursday, 31st January, 2013
Development: Health, Safety, Environment issues top Oando’s
drilling agenda
In a statement made available to
our correspondent on Tuesday, the firm said the OES Teamwork, one of its four
rigs, had recorded a safety milestone of three years of uninterrupted
operations without a Loss Time Injury.
Published in Punch Newspaper
on Thursday, 31st January, 2013
Development:
Falcon Petroleum reaffirms commitment to host communities
A
wholly indigenous oil and gas service company, Falcon Petroleum Limited, has
said it remains committed to developmental projects that will impact lives in
its host communities.
The firm also expressed its intention to continue to invest in the
people as well as the local environment where it was operating within the
confines of its resources and statutory approvals from the Nigerian Gas company
Published
in Punch Newspaper on Thursday, 31st January, 2013
Partnership: Transcorp, GE partner to develop Nigeria’s power
infrastructure
General Electric (GE) and Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp)
have signed a framework agreement to collaborate in developing the power and
transport infrastructures in Nigeria.
The
agreement primarily sees the two companies open an avenue for discussion with
regard to partnering in the development of the Transcorp owned Ughelli power
plant, in Nigeria’s Delta State, pursuant to broader plans for the advancing of
Nigeria’s power infrastructure
Published in Punch Newspaper
on Thursday, 31st January, 2013
Police
Affairs: IG lays foundation of N77m forensic lab
Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Abubakar on Thursday laid the
foundation of a N77m forensic police laboratory, with a promise to rehabilitate
existing barracks nationwide. Represented by the Deputy Inspector- General
in-charge of ‘C’ Department, Mr. Emmanuel Udeoji, the IG said the facility
would cater for modern investigation needs of the force.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 1st February, 2013
Investment:
General Electric to establish manufacturing plant in C-River
The facility is part of a $1 billion investment that General
Electric intends to make in the Nigerian economy in the next five years. It
also plans to build a training facility in Calabar.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 1st February, 2013
MDGs: Nigeria’ll erdaicate Polio by 2015
The Director-General of the National Primary Health Care Development
Agency, NPHCDA, Dr. Ado Mohammed, yesterday said the Federal Government’s
committee on the eradication of polio had increased its campaign to kick out
polio from the country by 2015
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 1st February, 2013
Nigeria
records zero case of Polio in two months
Nigeria has attained an outstanding
feat by recording no incidence of poliomyelitis in the last two months.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja
yesterday after meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, the Director General
of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Ado Mohammed,
said the committee on the eradication of polio had stepped up its efforts to
totally eliminate the disease from the country in the next two years.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 1st February, 2013
Environment:
Lagos assures residents of flood control
Lagos State Government, Wednesday, asked residents not to panic as
it had put adequate measures in place to reduce cases of flooding to the barest
minimum in the state this year.
Commissioner
of Environment, Tunji Bello, at a briefing on the work plan and activities
of the ministry for the year 2013, noted that drainage and road construction
projects contributed to the flood recorded last year.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 1st February, 2013
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