Agriculture: Nigeria’s agricultural
sector undergoing massive transformation
Shamsuddeen
Usman, minister of national planning commission, says the nation’s agricultural
sector is undergoing massive transformation with the focus on growing
agriculture as a business aimed at turning the nation into a global
agricultural power house.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 26th August, 2013
The
Minister of Transport, Idris Umar, on Friday said that the Nigeria Railway
Corporation, NRC, would receive additional 200 wagons by December to boost
transportation in the country.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 26th August, 2013
Health: Elechi
disburses N200m to 6 private hospitals in Ebonyi
Governor
Martin Elechi of Ebonyi has disbursed N200 milion to six rural hospitals under
his Health Intervention Initiative in the 15th tranche of grants to
rural private hospitals.
Published in
BusinessDay Newspaper on Monday, 26th August, 2013
Energy: Egbin Plant
to boost Power Supply
Seven
years after it lost its full installed generation capacity as a result of a
faulty turbine, the Egbin Power Plc said it had bounced back to its installed
capacity following a N1 billion repairs on its sixth turbine unit (ST-06).
Published in
BusinessDay Newspaper on Monday, 26th August, 2013
Partnership:
Ecobank partners FG on MDGs Funds
The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President
on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has appointed Ecobank Nigeria as partner
in its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme aimed at assisting indigent and
less-privileged families with monthly social subventions as part of the federal
government’s MDGs project.
Published in DailySun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 27th August, 2013
Partnership: NESREA
partners Imo communities on waste disposal
The
National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement (NESREA) has
called on communities in Imo State to adopt safer and healthier means of waste
management to prevent human contact with the hazards of wastes
Published in DailySun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 27th August, 2013
Mining:
Nigeria Digs Deep in a Bid to Revive Its Mining Sector
Nigeria
forgot about its once lucrative mining industry. But through regulatory changes
and foreign investment, it is now trying to regain its lost past.
When people
talk of Nigeria's natural wealth, most immediately think of oil. After all,
Nigeria's black gold accounts for up to 95% of the country's foreign exchange
income and 80% of government revenue.
Published in Guardian
Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th August, 2013
Partnership: US to
partner Nigeria intelligence sharing
The
United States Consul-General in Lagos, Mr. Jeffery Hawkins, has described
Nigeria, Mr. Jeffery Hawkins, has described Nigeria as a great partner of the
United States of America in drug control.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th August, 2013
Investment: Anatomy of Return on Investment
in Nigeria
Eromosele
Abiodun highlights the misconceptions about return on investment and examined
other factors such as return on asset, return on equity annual or annualised
rate of return
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th August, 2013
Insecurity: Rising
insecurity threatens African maritime industry -FG
The
Federal Government has raised alarm that the economic opportunities in African
maritime industry are being threatened by the rising insecurity in the
continent’s water, calling on litoral states to defend their maritime sector
against criminals for exploitation of the resources.
Published in Vanguard Newspaper
on Thursday, 29th August, 2013
Health: Ogun plans
$150m cancer centre
The
Ogun State Government said it has concluded plans with the United States of
America-based cancer experts to construct a cancer institute worth $150m in the
state.
Published in Vanguard Newspaper
on Thursday, 29th August, 2013
Labour: Labour demands, N1.7bn workers’
entitlements from Arewa Textiles
National
Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has asked
the owners and management of Arewa Textiles Plc, closed since 2005, to pay
workers their N1.075 billion entitlements.
The
union in a statement detailed its efforts at making the owners of the company
to pay the entitlements since 2005 including legal action, where Union Bank Plc
joint receivers’ pleaded to settle the issue out of court.
Published in Daily
Independent Newspaper on Thursday, 29th August, 2013
Environment: 20 cities may be hit
with $50 billion floods by 2050
The year
2050 may not be one that about 20 cities across the world would be looking
forward to.
Published in Daily Independent
Newspaper on Thursday, 29th August, 2013
Economy: CBN explains components of N220bn
MSMEs fund
The
Central Bank of Nigeria says its N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprise (MSMEs) Fund will help participating financial institutions to
support entrepreneurs.
The
Director of Public Finance, Mr Paul Eluhaiwe, said this in an interview with
the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday.
Published in Vanguard Newspaper on
Thursday,
Education: Jigawa Government spends
N1bn on Adult Literacy
Jigawa state government said it has expended the sum of N1billion in the
training of 18,000 adults on basic literacy and provision of learning
facilities across the state, as part of its efforts to meet the UNESCO standard
on the universal education.
Published in Vanguard Newspaper on
Thursday, 29th August, 2013
Philanthropy:
Airtel Staff donates to Lekki Orphanage
Management
of the Lagos State Government Motherless Babies Home and Executive Members of
the Lekki Residents Association have commended employees of leading
telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, for showing love, care
and affection for underprivileged children.
Published in ThisDay Newspaper on
Friday, 30thAugust, 2013
Education: FG approves $100m to
fight HIV/AIDs Annually
The federal government has approved an additional sum of $100
million annually to fight the HIV/AIDs pandemic in Nigeria, saying the plan was
to identify priority attention and increase domestic resources to fight the
pandemics
Published in ThisDay Newspaper on
Friday, 30thAugust, 2013
Environment: China to spend $275b to
fight air pollution
China
will spend $275 billion over the next five years improving air quality –
roughly the same as the gross domestic product (GDP) of Hong Kong and twice the
size of the annual defence budget.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Friday, 30thAugust, 2013
Investment: Calabar
seeks investment for tourist sites
The
Managing Director, Cross River State Tourism Bureau, Mr. Michael Williams has
charged investors and stakeholders in the tourism industry not to concentrate
on simply building hotels to the detriment of investing in other profit tourist
attractions/sites.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Friday,
Labour: 40 millions Nigerian jobless, says Kolade
About
40 million Nigerians translating to 23.9 per cent are unemployed, Chairan,
Subsidy Reinvestment Programme (SURE-P) Dr. Christopher Kolade has said.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Friday,
Health: ‘Danger of poor breast feeding’
Expectant
and nursing mothers must breast-feed their babies and not husbands, the Head,
Department of Paediatrics, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi
Araba, Prof Adebola Akinsulie, has advised.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Friday,
Education: Kwara to upgrade 120 schools
The
Kwara State government has said it would upgrade 120 secondary schools to meet
global standards of teaching, infrastructure and pupil – teacher ratio in the
state.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Friday,
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