Agriculture: NAFDAC – Why Nigeria’s
Agricultural Produce Face EU Market Prohibition
The
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) weekend
stated that the European Union (EC) is set to ban some of Nigeria’s
agricultural produce currently being exported into European markets due to
contamination.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Sunday, 15th September, 2013
Oil & Gas:
Diamond Bank commits N150bn to oil, gas financing
The
Corporate Banking Director, Diamond Bank Plc, Mr. Samuel Egube, has said that
the bank has put together about $1bn (150bn) for the funding of oil and gas
projects in Nigeria.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Sunday, 15th September, 2013
Education: Nigeria Students Threaten
to Shut Private Varsities over Strike
University
students under the umbrella of National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS,
yesterday, took to the streets in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, calling on
the Federal Government to accede to the demands of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 16th September, 2013
Energy: GE partners
XD Electric to Boost Power across Africa
General
Electric (GE) and XD Electric Group have announced the formation of a new
partnership that combines GE’s grid automation capacities with XD Electric’s
comprehensive portfolio of primary high voltage equipment.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 16th September, 2013
Agriculture:
Nigeria’s Agriculture to benefit from IFC Loan
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the
World Bank Group and Olam International, a global integrated supply chain
manager and processor of agricultural products, has signed a USD120 million
(N18.7 billion) agricultural loan agreement.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 16th September, 2013
Energy: Power
Generation’ll rise to 20,000mw in 2016 – Sambo
Vice – President Namadi Sambo yesterday said the country
would be able to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity by 2016. Speaking
during an audience with the new executive members of the Alumni Association of
the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, Kuru, Sambo
said the transformation agenda had recorded success in key sectors of the
economy.
Published in The Punch
Newspaper on Tuesday, 17th September, 2013
Education: Nigeria
to Access U.S. $500 Million for Education
Nigeria
is to access $500 million from international funding agencies to boost
educational development and enhance access to universal basic education in the
country.
Published in The Punch
Newspaper on Tuesday, 17th September, 2013
Environment: Flood
wreaks havoc in Plateau
More than 100 houses and property worth millions of naira
have been destroyed by flood which affected five local government areas of
Plateau State
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 17th September, 2013
Philanthropy:
Residents rejoice as church brings free health services to communities
Hundreds
of Lagos residents are still rejoicing days after receiving free medical
services at a programme organised by a church to mark its health week.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 17th September, 2013
Philanthropy: Group
gives scholarship to students
About
five postgraduate students have benefitted from Ife May Club Education Support
Programme in the screening exercise at Ife, Osun State.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 17th September, 2013
Labour: FG targets
N320bn revenue, 1 million jobs from leather industry
The
Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Olusegun Aganga, on Monday said
the Federal Government was targeting annual revenue of about N320 billion from
tanneries and leather-related
manufactured goods in the country.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 17th September, 2013
Philanthropy: NPA donates buses to UNILAG
As part of its
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) has donated
two new Toyota coaster bus to the Department of Building, University of Lagos
(UNILAG).
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 18th September, 2013
Agriculture: FirstBank Chief seeks
collaboration for Agricultural Funding
Continuous
stakeholder engagements in agriculture would ensure sustained funding for the sector, Group Managing Director
(GMD), First Bank of Nigeria Ltd, Mr Bisi Onasanya has said.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 18th September, 2013
Agriculture: UBA
stakes N41b on Agribusiness
United
Bank of Africa (UBA) Plc has extended about N41 billion to agro and agro allied
businesses as part of its efforts to activate Nigeria’s largest economic
segment for sustainable development, mass employment and poverty alleviation
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 18th September, 2013
Health: Kwara targets .5m children, pregnant women in community
health programme
Kwara State Ministry
of Health has kicked off its maternal, neonatal and child health programme
across the 16 local government areas of the state.
Speaking with
journalists at one of the centres in Ilorin, the commissioner for Health,
Alhaji Kayode Issa, said the programme is targeted to provide health care to
500,000 children and pregnant women in the state.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 18th September, 2013
Philanthropy: Lawmakers train 120 youths
The
Chief Whip of Oyo State House of Assembly Hon. Abiodun Adigun-Hammed has
reiterated his commitment to support youths and the aged in his constituency.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 18th September, 2013
Philanthropy: NGO
offers free Education to 5,000 children
A
faith-based Non Government Organisation (NGO), the Inner City Mission for
Children has offered free education to about 5,000 indigent children across the
country.
Published in Daily
Independent Newspaper on Thursday, 19th September, 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, 19th September, 2013
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, 19th September, 2013
Education: Students
protest ASUU Strike
The
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) yesterday protested the two month
old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Friday, 20th September, 2013
Energy: Local Oil
Companies Boost Production as IOCs Retreat
Locally-owned
oil companies are boosting their share of Nigeria’s oil production by gaining
ownership of oilfields in unstable areas of the country as international energy
companies would appear to be in retreat.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Friday, 20th September, 2013
Agriculture:
Nigeria to control 10% of global fertiliser market
Nigeria
is being positioned to control 10 per cent of the global fertiliser market by
2017, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has
said.
Published in ThisDay Newspaper on Friday, 20th September, 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 ThisDay Newspaper on Friday, 20th September, 2013
Agriculture: BoA gets N15b for on-lending to farmers at single-digit
The Federal Government has granted the Bank of Agriculture (BoA) N15 billion for on-lending to farmers at a single-digit for the 2013 farming season
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, 20th September, 2013
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, 20th September, 2013
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