Award: Avuru Bags
Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Austin
Avuru, Managing Director and Chief Executive officer of Seplat Petroleum
Development Company has won the highly prestigious and coveted Ernst &
Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Master Category for the Nigeria and
West African sub-region.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 18th November, 2013
Agriculture:
Agricultural Transformation, Ban on Livestock Imports Lauded
Former Minister of Defence, Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, has
commended the Agricultural Transformation Agenda of the federal government,
saying there is no need to import poultry or poultry products into the country.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 18th November, 2013
Philanthropy: First
Bank donates to King, Queens College
As
part of the drive to support the development of education as it relates to
sports, First Bank of Nigeria Limited under its corporate responsibility and
sustainability initiatives has donated sporting facilities totalling N44
million to King’s College and Queen’s College, both in Lagos.
Published in Punch Newspaper
on Monday, 18th November, 2013
Health: $25.5m hospital built by
Pfizer set for commissioning in Kano
The
state-of-the-arts medical facility built by Pfizer, the global drug manufacturing
giant, as part of the out-of-court settlement reached with Kano State
government in respect of the disputed clinical test of Trovan drug in the state
is now set for commissioning.
Published in BusinessDay
Newspaper on Monday, 18th November, 2013
Community
Development: Chevron releases funds for Community Projects
Chevron
Nigeria Limited has released N800 million for the implementation of
infrastructure projects in the oil rich Ilaje Communities in Ondo State.
Published in Punch Newspaper
on Monday, 18th November, 2013
Investment: Palm
Oil N100bn Investment to create 50,000 jobs
PZ Wilmar Ltd has disclosed that its N100 bilion investment
in Nigeria’s palm oil industry will generate over 50,000 jobs in the economy.
Published in Punch Newspaper
on Monday, 18th November, 2013
Agriculture: N300m Cocoa Seedling
Wasting Farmers bear brunt
Farmers
are likely to be the proverbial ‘grasses’ that suffer when two elephants fight,
following the lingering crisis between the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria
(CRIN) workers and its Executive Director, Prof. Malachi Akoroda, to which the
Governing Board Chairman, Chief Francis Fadahunsi had naturally joined the
fray.
Published in Punch Newspaper
on Monday, 18th November, 2013
Investment: N3.2tn Investments attracted
in three years
Within the last three years, over $20bn (N3.2tn) Foreign
Direct Investment has been attracted into the Nigerian economy, the Federal
Government has said.
The figure was revealed on Monday in Abuja during a world press conference on the 24th World Economic Forum on Africa which Nigeria will host next year in Nigeria.
Published in Punch
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th November, 2013
Empowerment: Bayelsa kick-starts
women empowerment programme with N500m
The Bayelsa State Government has said it is set to launch the first phase
of its Women Empowerment Programme at various cooperative groups next week.
Published in DailySun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th November, 2013
Philanthropy: Yaba LCDA donates
vehicles to neighbourhood to watch, CDC, others
In a bid to make them more effective, Yaba Local Council Development
Authority (LCDA) has donated four utility vehicles to the Community Development
Committee (CDC).
Published in DailySun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th November, 2013
Climate Change: ‘1.5m millions
Nigerians may be displaced by flooding’
With global warming and the potential sea level rise in the Atlantic
Ocean, between 600,000 and 1.5 million Nigerians may be displaced in coastal
areas, the Vice-Chancellor of the Botswana International University of Science
and Technology and Professor of Environmental Engineering and Sciences, Prof.
Hilary Inyang, has said.
Published in DailySun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th November, 2013
Investment: Retail
Market attracted N205.4bn investment in two years
Nigeria
has attracted investment of about N205.4bn ($1.3bn) into the retail sector
within the last two years, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr.
Olusegun Aganga, has said.
Published in Punch
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th November, 2013
Health: Fashola, Bill Gates, Dangote
promises to eradicate polio form Nigeria
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN); Microsoft founder and
philanthropist, Mr. Bill Gates and Nigeria’s business mogul, Alhaji Aliko
Dangote, yesterday promised to eradicate polio from the country.
Published in The Nation Newspaper
on Wednesday, 20th November, 2013
Philanthropy: Skye Bank donates to
Rivers School
As part of the activities to commemorate the 2013 ‘Global Literacy Day’,
employees of Skye Bank Plc have donated books worth millions of naira to
Community Secondary School, Nkpolu, a public school in Rivers State.
Published in The Nation Newspaper
on Wednesday, 20th November, 2013
Infrastructure: Lagos needs $50b to
fix infrastructure, says Fashola
The Infrastructure need of Lagos State for the next decade is estimated
at $5 billion yearly, Governor Babatunde Fashola has said.
Published in The Nation Newspaper
on Wednesday, 20th November, 2013
Labour: Fed Govt saves N120b from ghost workers in MDAs
The Federal Government has said it saved N120
billion from ghost workers in its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister
of Finance, spoke in Lagos at the FBN Capital third annual investors’
conference. The minister said the figure was N20 billion higher than the N100
billion the government discovered in February.
Published in The Nation Newspaper
on Wednesday, 20th November, 2013
Agriculture: Nigerian farmers to
earn $800m from cassava chip export
Nigeria’s economy is beginning to reap from
President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation programme with following the
projection that the country is expected to earn N124.800 billion, about $800M
from her export of cassava chips to China.
Published in The Nation Newspaper
on Wednesday, 20th November, 2013
Economy: Nigeria’s Economy could
grow at 10%
Nigeria’s economy “could easily” grow at a rate of
10 per cent if the newly privatised power industry puts an end to daily
electricity cuts, a former chairman ofGoldman Sachs Asset Management, Jim O’Neill,
has said.
Published in The Nation Newspaper
on Wednesday, 20th November, 2013
Power: Nigeria gets $100m loan for
Power Supply
Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday
approved Nigeria’s quest for a $100m loan from the India Import-Export Bank to
boost power supply in Cross River, Enugu and Kaduna states.
Published in Daily Independent Newspaper
on Thursday, 21st November, 2013
Health: FG spends $7.6m on pneumonia
vaccine yearly
In the first quarter of next month, the Federal Government
will introduce Pneumonia Conjugal Vaccine (PCV) to target the leading causes of
Pneumonia in the country.
Published in Daily Independent Newspaper
on Thursday, 21st November, 2013
Economy: Cross
River Economy worth N1.28tr in 2011
The National Planning Commission has disclosed that
the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Cross River State in 2011 stood at N1.28
trillion.
Published in Daily
Independent Newspaper on Thursday, 21st November, 2013
Environment:
Uduaghan wants regulatory agencies to sanction oil firms
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has lauded the recent
report by Amnesty International which further traced the persistent wide spread
oil spill in the Niger Delta region to the activities of the International Oil
Companies.
Published in Daily Independent Newspaper
on Thursday, 21st November, 2013
Philanthropy:
Foundation screens, treats 3,086 babies free
The ANU Dosekun Healthcare Foundation, a Non-government
Organisation (NGO) based in Lagos has given free jaundice screening to 2,975
babies and treated 111 babies since 2011.
Published in Daily Independent Newspaper
on Thursday, 21st November, 2013
Labour:
Settlement of Labour Liabilities Gulps N609.4 Billion
The
Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Mr Benjamin Dikki, has
revealed that the federal government has spent about N609, 398,074,485.63 in
settlement of labour liabilities in privatised public enterprises between 2000
and 2013.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 22nd November, 2013
Health: Lagos to
screen 100,000 for Cancer, Hypertension, Diabetes
Lagos State Government yesterday said it would
screen 100,000 residents for diabetes, hypertension, cancer and other
Non-Communicable Diseases, NCDs, in all the 57 Local Governments, LGs, and
Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, in the state.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 22nd November, 2013
Nigeria's telecoms industry has added additional 6.8 million active telephone lines in the first three quarters of the year.
Published in ThisDay Newspaper on Friday, 22nd November, 2013
