Fire razes buildings
in Cross River
An early morning fire on Sunday burnt down eight shops and six
residential buildings including a law chamber at Nelson Mandela and Targets
roads, in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
This came just as a member of National Youth Service Corps,
Ifeanyi Uche, escaped electrocution while trying to put the fire out.
The fire, according to an eyewitness, Mr. Etim Young, started
from a hair dressing salon about 4.30 am as a result of power surge.
Published in The Punch
Newspaper on Monday, 29th October, 2012
Insecurity: Methodist
church supports global arms trade treaty
Following the increasing level of insecurity in the country, the
Methodist Church of Nigeria has pledged its support for a strong and effective
global arms trade treaty.
This is just as the first global arms trade treaty is being
negotiated by various governments worldwide.
The arms trade treaty is a trade policy that seeks to regulate
movement of all conventional weapons across international borders.
The church said that insecurity in the country could be
attributed to the ease at which persons procure arms.
Published in The Punch
Newspaper on Monday, 29th October, 2012
Ogun hosts UNICEF
zonal network programme for children in 2013
The Ogun State Government is to host the 14th United Nations
International Children Education Fund (UNICEF) Zonal Network for Children (ZNC)
in Abeokuta next year.
To this end, it has inaugurated an 8-man Committee to guide
the planning. Seven other States across the Country under the UNICEF B-Field
Office in Lagos are expected to participate in the conference where they
are expected to give account of all UNICEF activities in their respective
States.
Published in Business
Day Newspaper on Monday, 29th October, 2012
Flooding: FG to
construct dams in Upper Niger, Benue
The
Federal Government has disclosed plans to construct dams in the Upper River
Niger and Benue River.
This
is in a bid to control future flooding and avert the present devastation
visited on various parts of the country.
Published in Business
Day Newspaper on Monday, 29th October, 2012
NGO wants FG to deploy
military to rescue flood victims
Social Action, a non governmental organisation (NGO), has
appealed to the Federal Government to deploy military personnel to assist in
the rescue of persons in areas affected by flood disaster in some parts of the
country.
Published in Business
Day Newspaper on Monday, 29th October, 2012
Okonjo-Iweala: FG will
borrow to Fund Infrastructure Development
The
Federal Government is planning to borrow from international financing agencies
to fund infrastructure development, Coordinating Minister for the Economy and
Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-iwala, said in Tokya yesterday.
Published in Business
Day Newspaper on Monday, 29th October, 2012
Manufacturing Group tasks FG on
Infrastructural Development
An
industrialist and Chairman of Eteleson Group, Sir Alfred Nworah Etele, has said
that the best approach to boost trade and commerce in the country was for all
tiers of government to step up measures more than ever before to create a
conducive environment for businesses to grow.
Published in Business
Day Newspaper on Monday, 29th October, 2012
Lagos to establish oil
and gas corporation
Lagos State Government is seeking to pass into law, a bill for
the establishment of the Lagos State Oil and Gas Corporation. This was
discussed yesterday during a public hearing on the proposed executive bill,
which was held in the Lagos State House of Assembly.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 30th October, 2012
We seek resettlement
not new nation – Bakassi natives
Bakassi
people’s General Assembly under the leadership of Senator Florence Ita-Giwa has
dissociated itself from the call for Bakassi Efik natives to join other ethnic
nationalities of Southern Cameroun to form a new sovereign state.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 30th October, 2012
Fayemi commissions
multi-million naira ward, ambulances
Ekiti
State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi yesterday commissioned a multi-million naira
accident and emergency ward, a laboratory and a male surgical ward at the
state’s teaching hospital, Ado – Ekiti, with a promise to increase funding of
health care services in the state.
Published in The Daily
Sun Newspaper on Tuesday, 30th October, 2012
Seven die in Delta
camps, Senate to donate N201m
No
fewer than seven persons have died in 18 relief camps in Delta State, according
to Governor Emmanuel Uduagahan.
Also,
the Senate yesterday resolved to donate about N201 million to flood disaster
victims across the country as part of its contribution towards alleviating
their suffering.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Tuesday, 30th October, 2012
ITU rallies Nigeria,
others on sustainable broadband policies
Nigeria
and other developed nations’ quest for a robust broadband regime may be marred
by lack of sustainable plans and policies, the Interational Telecommunicaton
Union (ITU) has said.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Tuesday, 30th October, 2012
Philanthropy:
BAT donates cassava factory to Achoze community
The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation has donated
cassava processing cottage industry to the OgwozumoFadama Users Group, Achoze
community of Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State.
Dr. Gbenga Ibikunle, who represented its chairman, Dr. Christopher
Kolade, said the foundation, which is an independent arm of BATN, funded the
cottage factory as part of its corporate social responsibility, focusing on
four areas namely: agricultural, potable water supply, environmental protection
and educational development.
Published
in The Guardian Newspaper on Tuesday, 30th October, 2012
‘Canada’s Confidence in Nigerian Economy is
Stronger’
The
Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Chris Cooter, has said Canada is
currently working on strategies aimed at increasing its Foreign Direct
Investment in Nigeria within the next few years due to enhanced confidence in
the local economy.
Cooter
disclosed this during a meeting with Nigeria’s Minister of Trade and
Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, in Abuja.
Published
in The Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 31st October, 2012
Lifebuoy
Moves to Tackle Diarrhea
This
year marks the fifth birthday of Global Handwashing Day (GHD), a day co-founded
by Unilever’s health soap brand Lifebuoy to raise awareness of handwashing with
soap as a simple but lifesaving habit.
Published
in The Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 31st October, 2012
Jonathan
makes minor cabinet reshuffle
President Goodluck
Jonathan yesterday effected a minor cabinet reshuffle with the directive that
the Minister of State for Power, Darius Ishaku, swap position with the Minister
of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Hajia Zainab Kuchi.
The President, who gave the directive yesterday at the Federal
Executive Council (FEC) meeting, said the two ministers should swap positions
next week.
Published
in The Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 31st October, 2012
Climate Change:
Lagos earmarks N40bn to protect coastal areas
To mitigate
the recurring ocean surge and negative impact of climate change on Lagos State,
Governor Babatunde Fashola yesterday said his administration had designed
coastal protection plan that would cost about N40 billion.
The project, which will stretch for about seven kilometres to
protect coastline areas in the state, is expected to be implemented in two
budgetary cycles.
Published
in National Mirror Newspaper on Thursday,
1st November, 2012
Abia
govts shuts 100 illegal schools
The state government
has sealed the premises of the affected schools while it has set up a tribunal
to try the operators of the school.
Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Monica Philips, who disclosed
this to newsmen at a briefing in Umuahia yesterday, said the illegal
schools were used to perpetrate examination malpractices in the state.
Published in National Mirror Newspaper on Thursday, 1st November,
2012
Afren boosts
national’s production capacity with 5,000 bpd
Nigeria’s
2.7 million barrels per day (BPD) production capacity has been boosted by
additional 5, 000 bpd as Afren, a major oil exploration and production firm has
stated oil production in the country.
Confirming the development, Afren stated that the
additional output would come from the Okoro Field Extension, offshore south
east Nigeria, at a stabilised rate of 5,000 bopd of 38° API oil, increasing
total output from the Okoro area to approximately 21,500 bopd. The firm stated
in a statement that: “The Okoro-14 (Okoro Field Extension) development well was
drilled by Afren and partner Amni International Petroleum Development Company
Ltd.
Published
in National Mirror Newspaper on Thursday,
1st November, 2012
Productive
land favours Africa in fight against hunger
A new report suggests that Africa is
progressing in combat against hunger, thanks to availability of
productive land. Notwithstanding the fears about possible food shortage both
locally and internationally, a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation
News Africa has said Africa is making headway in its desire to tackle hunger.
Published
in Punch Newspaper on Thursday, 1st November, 2012
ExxonMobil
donates N80m to Flood Victims
Mobil
Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN) and Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria
Limited (EEPNL), affiliates of Exxon Mobil Corporation have donated the sum of
$500,000, about N80 million to victims of the recent flooding disaster in five
of the worst hit states.
Lead Country Manager of ExxonMobil Affiliates in Nigeria, Mr.
Mark Ward said in a statement on Tuesday that the company’s affiliates in
Nigeria had partnered the Nigerian Red Cross to provide relief to Akwa Ibom,
Rivers and three other states which have been severely affected by the
disaster.
Published
in Punch Newspaper on Thursday, 1st November, 2012
NSE Woos Agric Firms to Stock Market for Funds
The
Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr. Oscar Onyema, has
called on entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector of the economy to access the
nation’s capital market for long-term funds to finance their operations.
Onyema, who made the call during the recent presentation of
facts behind the figures by Presco Plc, noted that despite the huge potentials
in the agricultural sector, it has remained subsistent because of the huge
funding requirements, which cannot be met through the money market.
Published
in ThisDay Newspaper on Friday, 2nd November, 2012
ESSPIN
invests
N35m in Kwara LG
An international education support agency, Education Sector
Support Programme in Nigeria, said it expended over N35m in 2011 on educational
development in Kaiama Local Government Council of Kwara State.
The Organisational Development and Management Specialist,
ESSPIN, Mr. Taiye Fatoki, made this known on Thursday during the
inauguration of some facilities at Nassaraawa-Ngatte Local Government Education
Authority.
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