Community
Development: Chevron releases N800m for Community Projects
As part of its Corporate Social Responsibilities
(CSR), Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) said about N800 million has been
released to the Ilaje Regional Development Council (IRDC) since inception for
the implementation of both infrastructure and non infrastructure projects areas
of its operation.
Published in ThisDay Newspaper
on Sunday, 27th October, 2013
Agriculture: NAPEP
partners German Agency on Agricultural Resources
In its quest to improve on its core mandate of
lifting the underprivileged above poverty level, the National Poverty
Eradication Programme (NAPEP) has entered into a partnership agreement with the
German International Development Agency, as part of efforts to boost its
agricultural support scheme to provide modern tools and capacity building for
extreme poor farmers and those ready to embrace farming by improving them farm
yields and productivity.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Sunday, 27th October, 2013
Health: Rotary,
Gates to raise $35m for Polio
In its quest to step up efforts towards
eradication of polio worldwide, Rotary International and its partners including
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hope to raise up to US$35 million per
year through 2018. This initiative, the partners believe, is to build public
support for the historic final push now underway to wipe out this disabling
viral disease once and for all.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Sunday, 27th October, 2013
Climate Change:
House Vows to Probe Climate Change Funds
The House of Representatives Committee on Climate Change
has vowed to investigate the utilisation of funds donated by
international agencies and development partners to the Department of
Climate Change in Nigeria.
Published in ThisDay Newspaper
on Monday, 28th October, 2013
Health: Borno Trains VVF Patients on
Skill Acquisition
The Borno State Government yesterday concluded the training
of 40 Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) patients in different skills after they had
undergone successful corrective surgeries.
Published in BusinessDay
Newspaper on Monday, 28th October, 2013
Health: FG confirms
death of 74 persons
About
74 persons feared dead from the outbreak of cholera in Okota area of Lagos
State and several others hospitalised in different parts of the state,
following the outbreak of the disease.
Published in Punch Newspaper
on Tuesday, 29th October, 2013
Agriculture: Lagos
Poultry Industry generates N44.88b
The poultry industry generates
about N44.9billion yearly, the Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture
and Cooperatives, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, has said.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 30th October, 2013
Labour: Ajimobi
employs 66 disabled persons
Oyo
State Governor Abiola Ajimobi has employed 66 people with disabilities into the
civil service.
Special Assistant to the Governor on People With Disabilities
(PWD) Prince Paul Adelabu announced this yesterday at a three-day workshop by
the government in partnership with the MALE Knowledge Limited.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 30th October, 2013
Education: Kano
spends 400m on adult literacy campaign
The
Kano State Government has said it has spent N400 million on adult literacy
campaign on the state.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 30th October, 2013
Philanthropy: Bank
donates to Orphanage
As
part of its corporate social responsibility efforts, FinaTrust Micro Finance
Bank Ltd, a leading microfinance Bank, has made donations of food and money to
Modupe Cole Memorial Child Care and Treatment Home School.
Published in The Vanguard
Newspaper on Thursday, 31st October, 2013
Oil: Benin Republic discovers Oil in
Commercial Quantity
The Republic of Benin Thursday said it had
discovered 87 million barrels of oil off its coast, a tiny amount compared to
neighbouring Nigeria’s reserves, but which could boost the small country’s
economy.
Published in The Vanguard
Newspaper on Thursday, 31st October, 2013
Environment: Air
Pollution Causes Cancer, Says WHO
The World Health Organisation has classed outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic, and says urban and industrial air
pollutants cause lung cancer and are linked to bladder cancer.
Published in The Vanguard
Newspaper on Thursday, 31st October, 2013
Health: 86 die in
1,623 cholera cases – FG
The
Federal Government yesterday said that at least 86 people died f the reported
1,621 cholera cases in the country in recent months.
Published in National Mirror
Newspaper on Friday, 1st 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, 1st November, 2013
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