For Agriculture: FG distributes Fertilizer to Farmers in Bauchi
The
Federal Government has said it has distributed 33,000 bags of assorted
fertilizer to 11,000 registered rice farmers in Bauchi State for this year’s
dry season farming.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 10th February 2014
Appointment: UC RUSAL Appoints New Management Team for ALSCON
The Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria has
announced the appointments of new acting Managing Director; acting Director,
Human Resources; acting Director, Finance; acting Director, Commercial, among
others.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 10th February 2014
Industry Pulse: Ikazoboh, Ebi join Dangote Cement Board
Dangote
Cement Plc, DANGCEM, yesterday announced it has appointed Emmanuel Ikazoboh,
former interim administrator of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE and Ernest Ebi
as non-Executive Directors of the Company.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 10th February 2014
Industry Pulse: EMP
Hires Murat Ozulku as CEO of its Bank Processing Division
Emerging Market Payments (EMP) announced that Murat Ozulku has
been appointed CEO of its Bank Processing Division, replacing Hoda Shoukry who
has retired after an illustrious career.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 10th February 2014
Industry Pulse: P & G appoints new MD in Nigeria
Procter and Gamble (P&G) has announced the
appointment of Mr. George Nasser as the new company Managing Director for
Nigeria. The announcement was made this week by Miss Olatomiwa Akande, the
company’s communications Manager.
Published
in Daily Independent Newspaper on Monday, 10th February 2014
Reporting: CBN,
SEC, DPR urged to Sustainability Reporting
Regulatory agencies such as the
Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Stock Exchange, Department for Petroleum
Resources, Security and Exchange Commission and Federal Inland Revenue Service,
amongst others have been charged to evolve ways of regulating sustainability
reporting in the country.
Published
in Daily Independent Newspaper on Monday, 10th February 2014
Environment: Agip Oil Well Head Leak Pollutes Biseni
Community In Bayelsa
A
leak in a well head has been discharging crude oil in Egbebiri area of Biseni
in Yenagoa Council area of Bayelsa since Friday, February 7.
A Sahara Reporter said on Monday the leak, due to corrosion at Idu Well 3, operated by Agip, is spewing crude oil in gaseous form which liquefies and settles on the ground.
A Sahara Reporter said on Monday the leak, due to corrosion at Idu Well 3, operated by Agip, is spewing crude oil in gaseous form which liquefies and settles on the ground.
Published
in Daily Independent Newspaper on Monday, 10th February 2014
Partnership: Microsoft partners Mobile Monday, others in Techpreneurship
Microsoft Nigeria has partnered Mobile Monday Nigeria, Nokia and Verve to develop a new crop of techpreneurs with the unveiling of the first DevCon Alpha competition.
Published in Punch
Newspaper Tuesday,
11th February 2014
Grant: 10 varsities get $80m World Bank’s grant for research
Ten Nigerian Universities have won grants of about $8 million US Dollars each for research and related activities under the World Bank- supported Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) project.
Published in The Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th February 2014
Agribusiness: Sahel Capital Raises $33m to Boost Agribusiness in Nigeria
West
African-focused Fund Manager, Sahel Capital has unbundled a $33 million
investment fund for agribusiness in Nigeria, with particular focus on the
sector’s SMEs.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th February 2014
Partnership: MTN partners Shoprite on telecoms services
MTN,
Nigeria’s leading technology company, has partnered with Africa’s biggest
grocer, Shoprite Retail Supermarkets, to avail subscribers its products and
services at all Shoprite outlets nationwide.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th February 2014
Business Finance: CBN earmarks N220b development fund for SMEs
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido
Sanusi, has said that N132bn has been earmarked for providing financial
services to women from the N220bn Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Development Fund.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th February 2014
Business
Opportunities: U.S. business group to partner Entrepreneurs
An
Atlanta, US-based group, Geek Gone Global, is currently visiting Nigeria to
explore business opportunities in Nigeria and Africa.
Published in The Guardian
Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th February 2014
Audit Report: NEITI begins new Audit Report
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
(NEITI) has promised that it would going ahead with its planned audit of the
fiscal allocation and statutory disbursement of funds from the country’s Excess
Crude Oil Account (ECA), ecological funds and 13 per cent derivation allocation
which are shared between the country’s three tiers of government.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th February 2014
Industry Pulse: Total gets first female MD for upstream firms in Nigeria
Mrs. Elisabeth Proust has been appointed Managing
Director/Chief Executive of the Total Upstream Companies in Nigeria and as the
Total Group representative in Nigeria, with effect from Wednesday, February 12,
2014.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th February 2014
Insecurity: Anxiety
as Cameroun annexes territories in Cross River
Effective take-over by the Republic of Cameroun of Nigerian
territories in northern Cross River State may have begun in earnest. This is
coming 11 years after the International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled
that the natural resources-rich Bakassi Peninsula belongs to Cameroun.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th February 2014
Entrepreneurial skills: NECA’s women business association trains on bookkeeping
Many
small businesses have missed the opportunity to get credit financing or equity
investment simply because the business books were not in order.
Business
experts world over all agree that proper bookkeeping is essential for continued
sustenance and expansion of a business because it is through this that tax
officials, bankers, other investors or even the business managers can know the
actual performance of a business.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th February 2014
Philanthropy: Moneygram donates Books to School
MoneyGram has donated 3,000 exercise books and 5,000 copies
of the Junior Graphic newspaper to three schools in the Akyem Swedru
Municipality, as part of this year’s “Awaa waa” School Promotion.
Published in Vanguard Newspaper
on Thursday, 13th February 2014
Event: Nigeria to participate in Global Education Summit in US
Nigeria will be among the 80 countries that will participate
in the Global Education Summit to be organized by the British Council in the
United States in May this year.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Thursday, 13th February 2014
Education: Education for all, not likely till 2086
When the Education for All by 2015 Millennium Development Goal was postulated in 2000, sceptics doubted the ability of countries like Nigeria to live up to that goal in a 15-year time frame.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Thursday, 13th February 2014
Empowerment: Firm to empower Nigerian entrepreneurs
Geek Gone Global, a business group from Atlanta has said it is poised to encourage Nigeria and African entrepreneurs to achieve their individual set goals and objectives and thus improve the economic growth of their economies
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Thursday, 13th February 2014
Health: New guidance for treating children with acute malnutrition
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released new treatment guidelined for the almost 20 million children under – five worldwide who have severe acute malnutrition.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Thursday, 13th February 2014
Investment: Dangote Sugar Poised For Increased Production
Nigeria’
Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, has commended the
country’s No.1 sugar refinery, Dangote Sugar Refinery for making headway on its
sugar backward integration project.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Thursday, 13th February 2014
Poverty Eradication: FG earmarks N108 million for 12 pilot states
The Federal Government has earmarked the sum of N108 million for
12 pilot states for the grassroots micro-credit scheme of the National Poverty
Eradication Programme.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Thursday, 13th February 2014
Labour: FG moves to
end Poly Strike, Kicks off NEEDS Assessment
As part of efforts to end the ongoing strike by polytechnic
lecturers across the country, the federal government yesterday commenced a
needs assessment exercise of 66 state and federal polytechnics across the
country.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 14th February, 2014
Infrastructure: ‘Why Ogun’s multi-billion naira power plant is lying fallow’
Ogun State government has given reasons why the multi-billion power equipment purchased by the immediate past administration has been lying fallow for the past 31 months.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 14th February, 2014
Energy: U.S. to assist in Building Power Distribution, Transmission Capacity in Nigeria
United State’s Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker is expected to lead an energy business development mission to West Africa, with visit to Ghana and Nigeria.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 14th February, 2014
Energy: ENI needs
$96m to double solar plant capacity to 15mw
Executive Vice Chairman of the
National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Mohammed
Haruna, says about $96 million would be required to double the agency’s solar
capacity from its current 7.5 to 15 megawatts of electricity.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 14th February, 2014
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