The
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has concluded plans to increase
to 40 percent by 2015 the cassava inclusion in bread making from the current 20
percent.
Published in BusinessDay
Newspaper on Monday, 25th March, 2013
Award: 15 Africans bag Dangote’s
sponsored global youth leaders’ awards
Fifteen Africans
including six Nigerians are among 199 honourees that have been selected for the
2013 Young Global Leaders Award of the World Economic Forum (WEF) instituted by
the Dangote Fellowship.
Published in BusinessDay
Newspaper on Monday, 25th March, 2013
Environment: SEMA urges FG to relocate C’River flood
Communities
The
State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has called on the Federal Government
to fulfil its counterpart obligation to relocating the flood community of
Agwuagwune, in Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State.
Published in DailySun Newspaper
on Tuesday, 26th March, 2013
Philanthropy:
UNILAG student receive LG electronics scholarship
Ten students of engineering of the University
of Lagos have received scholarship award from LO Electronics, a global leader
in consumer electronics and mobile communications.
Published in DailySun Newspaper
on Tuesday, 26th March, 2013
Health: Researchers
want funding of researches on TB cure
Researchers
and health experts have called for the channelling of more funds into research
and development of new drugs for the cure of tuberculosis.
According
to them, most drugs currently in use for the cure of TB have become outdated.
Published in DailySun Newspaper
on Tuesday, 26th March, 2013
Philanthropy:
Optimal Foundation offers free cancer screening for women
Worried
by continuous ravaging impact of cancer especially on Nigerian women, Optimal
Cancer Care Foundation, in partnership with Seven-up Bottling Company recently
took free screening exercise to Ijora, Lagos, where hundreds of women were
sensitized and screened for different kinds of cancers.
Published in DailySun Newspaper
on Tuesday, 26th March, 2013
Community
Development: Kinabuti Fashion Initiative cleans Bundu Waterfront Community in
Port Harcourt
To
improve the lives and living conditions of people in the Waterfront communities
of Port Harcourt, Kinabuti Fashion Initiative (KFI), recently embarked on a
sanitation exercise
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 27th March, 2013
Community Development: Bank workers
support Lagos Environmental Initiatives
Sterling
Bank, at the weekend, mobilized over 500 of its workforce for a routine
environmental cleanup exercise at Ikeja roundabout and its environs, in Lagos
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 27th March, 2013
Philanthropy: MTN
Foundation donates science lab to schools in Edo
MTN Nigeria through its Foundation has donated
science laboratories for 22 secondary schools across the country.
Executive Director of the MTN Foundation Dennis
Okoro said the gesture was a result of the organisation's belief that science
and technology form the bedrock of modern society.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 27th March, 2013
MDGs: How to
achieve MDGs’ water target, by NOI Polls
EXCEPT there is a deliberate
reorganization of socio-economic policies regarding access to potable water,
attaining the goal of an increase in the proportion of people with access to
potable water, one of the Millennium Development Goals may remain a mirage by
2015.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 27th March, 2013
Health: Experts
call for end to Tuberculosis
Medical
experts have said that Tuberculosis (TB) is curable and its treatment is free
in most government hospitals across Nigeria.
Published in The Nation
Newspaper on Wednesday, 27th March, 2013
Labour; Yobe
employs 3,000 youths
No
fewer than 3,000 youths, women and vulnerable persons have been engaged under
the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) in Yobe State, its
co-ordinator in the state, Alhaji Umar El-Gash, has said.
Published in The Nation
Newspaper on Wednesday, 27th March, 2013
Philanthropy: N10m bounty
for less-privileged
Global
Harvest Church, Ikeja, Lagos has spent N10 million to provide foood, clothing
and other materials for the less-privileged.
Published in The Nation
Newspaper on Wednesday, 27th March, 2013
Energy: ECOWAS determined to improve energy access in W’Africa
The Executive Director of the Cape Verde-based ECOWAS Centre for
Renewal Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), Mr. Mahama Kappiah, said that about
52 per cent of West Africa’s estimated 300 million population lacked access to
electricity supply despite the region’s huge bio-energy, hydro, solar and wind
power potentials.
Published in Daily
Independent Newspaper on Thursday, 28th March, 2013
Community
Development: Youths begin work on Makurdi PHC
Students
on the Kennedy – Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Programme in Makurdi have
embarked on work to fix the Primary Health Care (PHC) In Wadata, Makurdi, the
Benue State Capital.
Published in Daily
Independent Newspaper on Thursday, 28th March, 2013
Climate
Change: Lagos shops for N27bn to protect shorelines
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, yesterday,
said the State needed N27 billion for the protection of shorelines in the next
three years as part of measures to find a lasting solution to the frequent
ocean surge in the state.
Published in Daily
Independent Newspaper on Thursday, 28th March, 2013
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