Shelter Afrique Supports Housing Projects In Nigeria With
$100m
Shelter Afrique, a Kenyan-based Pan-African
Housing Institution, on Monday announced a donation of N100 million dollars to
support housing projects in Nigeria.
President Goodluck Jonathan disclosed this at the
end of a one-day ``Presidential Stakeholders’ Retreat on Housing and Urban
Development’’ held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Published
in ThisDay Sun Newspaper on Monday, 12th November, 2012
Meningitis
Vaccine Breaks Barrier, Gains Approval ToTravel Outside Cold Chain
Signalling a potential breakthrough for immunization programs in
resource-poor countries, researchers in a statement obtained by LEADERSHIP today
announced at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
conference that regulatory authorities after conducting a rigorous review of
stability data, will for the first time allow a vaccine in Africa to be
transported and stored for as long as four days without refrigeration or even
an icepack.
Published
in ThisDay Sun Newspaper on Monday, 12th November, 2012
Philanthropy:
ECOWAS donates $382,000 to flood victims
President of the Commission,
Mr Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo, who made the donation on behalf of the commission
noted that the donation is in line with ECOWAS mandate to support and show
solidarity with people of the sub-region who are going through a disaster.
According to him ECOWAS is the only sub-regional body with a
comprehensive Disaster Risk Response strategy and the gesture is an expression
of solidarity and goodwill from the rest of the people of the sub-region.
Published
in Daily Sun Newspaper on Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
NOSDRA,
Mobil confirm oil spill at Mobil facilities
The
Director, National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Mr. Idris
Musa, has confirmed the receipt of a report of the oil spill from the facility
of Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), a subsidiary of the American oil giant,
ExxonMobil.
Musa, who is in charge of oil spills in NOSDRA said: “We
received a report from Mobil that there was a spill at their field and we have
dispatched our officers from our Uyo office to the spill site to access the
impact.
Published
in Daily Sun Newspaper on Tuesday, 13th November, 2012
Kano to
spend N750m on boreholes, public toilets
A Kano based Non-Governmental
Organization (NGO), Women Farmers Advancement Network (WOFAN), has constructed about 40 modern
toilets in schools and primary health care facilities across the state.
Disclosing this on the occasion of
commissioning the toilets as part of activities to mark the International Women
Day at Gabasawa Local Government of Kano state, the Director of WOFAN, Hajiya
Salamatu Garba, said the gesture was to ensure good environment of the schools
and the health centers.
Published
in The Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 14th November, 2012
‘CBN won’t force mobile money firms
to merge’
The
15 licensed mobile money operators will not be forced into mergers
and acquisition because of their weak capital base, an official of the
Shared Services Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Chidi
Umeano, has said.
He was reacting to speculations that the firms may merge and
acquisition to improve efficiency and speed up the reduction of the unbanked
population from 65 per cent to 25 per cent by 2015.
Published
in The Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 14th November, 2012
Investors dump Ibadan, other ICDs,
six years after successful concession
Investors
may have dumped their initial investment plan in the six Inland Container
Depots (ICDs) and freight stations being established in each of the country’s
geo-political zones as the government has hitherto failed to declare them port
of destination for imported items.
Investigations revealed that many of the investors
have not moved to site in their location at Ibadan, Kano, Isialangua,
Funtua, Maiduguri and Gombe.
Published
in The Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 14th November, 2012
Govt. loses N1.7bn monthly to rice
smuggling
Local rice millers have raised an
alarm that the Nigerian government loses over N1.7 billion worth of revenue
every month to smuggling activities in the rice sector.
The millers, under the aegis of Rice
Millers, Importers & Distributors Association of Nigeria, (RiMIDAN) called
on the government to ensure a level playing field in the sector and remove
waivers.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Thursday, 15th November, 2012
Local content
implementation retains $4b, says Nwapa
The
implementation of Nigeria local content initiative in the oil and gas industry
has ensure the spending of about $4 billion out of $20 billion in-country, the
Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board
(NCDMB), Ernest Nwapa has said.
Speaking on the arrangements for the hosting of the
2012 edition of the Practical Nigerian Content in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State,
slated for November 21 and 22, Nwapa explained that the event which was earlier
scheduled to hold in October was postponed due to the flooding.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Thursday, 15th November, 2012
’32 of 606 oil wells
in Nigeria are abandoned’.
The
state of abandoned oil wells in the country has become a source of concern to
stakeholders in the oil industry.
For instance, Shell, is said to have abandoned 32 of
their oil wells in Akwa Ibom State axis of Nigeria. Currently, there are
abandoned oil wells in three communities in Eastern Obolo Local Government Area
of Akwa Ibom State for increased daily oil production
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Thursday, 15th November, 2012
World Bank proposes African
Centres of Excellence in Nigeria varsities
The
World Bank has sent a team to Nigeria to discuss the proposal to support the
emergence of centres of excellence in some universities in seven African
countries, as part of its mandate in the region, with key stakeholders.
Welcoming
participants to a consultative meeting, organised by the National Universities
Commission (NUC), to discuss the modalities for the project, last Tuesday, the
Executive Secretary, Prof Julius Okojie, said centres of excellence (CoEx) must
be relevant to the needs of the country, if their objectives were to be
achieved. He advised that an institution hosting a centre of excellence must
have human and material resources required to sustain it.
Published in Vanguard Newspaper on Thursday,
15th November, 2012
LASG trains 15 youths
on energy, power
Lagos State Government on Wednesday said the 15 selected
candidates of its Youth Energy Career Program, undergoing course on power/energy
generation and management would receive a world-class training
A statement by the state Electricity Board said the LSEB General
Manager, Mrs. Damilola Ogunbiyi, stated this while disclosing the intention of
the government to host a career breakfast for the YECP pioneering candidates on
Friday.
Published
in Vanguard Newspaper on Thursday, 15th November, 2012
FG approves National
Policy on Public-Private Partnership
The
Federal Government has approved a National Policy on Public-Private Partnership
(PPP) to complement the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC)
Act of 2005.
The policy is aimed to provide legislative, regulatory and
institutional framework for PPP to thrive. Vice-President Namadi Sambo stated
this Thursday while declaring open the fourth annual African Public-Private
Partnership Conference in Abuja.
Published
in The Punch Newspaper on Friday, 16th November, 2012
EDC, Etisalat float
entrepreneurial programme
The
Enterprise Development Centre of the Pan African University and Etisalat Nigeria
have partnered to host the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Week in Nigeria, as
part of a continuous support to the growth and development of Small and Medium-scale
Enterprises.
Published
in The Punch Newspaper on Friday, 16th November, 2012
Philanthropy: Nestle donates relief
material to flood victims
Nestle has donated relief materials to Nigerian Red Cross
Society for distribution to flood victims in all affected states in the
country.
The presentation of the items, which included table water and food
products, was made, on behalf of the company, by its Corporate Communications
and Public Affairs Manager, Dr. Samuel Adenekan.
Published
in The Punch Newspaper on Friday, 16th November, 2012
Philanthropy:
NGO distributes uniform, books to pupils
As part of efforts to provide opportunities to the
less-privileged children, a non-governmental organisation, The Rhythm of His
Grace, has distributed 72 sets of school uniforms and more than 200 branded
exercise books to the pupils of Tokunbo Alli Primary School, Ikeja, Lagos.
Published in
The Punch Newspaper on Friday, 16th November, 2012
Yobe to
Train 400 Youths
As
part of efforts to tackle youth unemployment and insecurity in the state, the
Yobe State Government has concluded plans to send 400 youth across the state to
Kano for skills acquisition.
The
state Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Aji Yerima Bularafa,
disclosed that the youths would be sent to the General Sani Abacha Training
Institute Kano during a meeting of all the 17 local government caretaker
chairmen in his office. Bularafa said he convened the meeting in order to
finalise the arrangement for the movement of the 400 youths to Kano.
Published
in ThisDay Newspaper on Thursday, 8th November, 2012
Nigerians in Diaspora Plan to Double
$10bn Yearly Remittance
The All Nigerian Nationals in Diaspora (ANNID) has expressed its desire to double its yearly $10 billion remittance to the country in the coming years.
Its
National President, Dr. Peter Mozie, disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, while
addressing a press conference on the forthcoming Diaspora convention that will
take place in California, United States from November 29 to December 2.
Published
in ThisDay Newspaper on Thursday, 8th November, 2012
Development of Local Software
excites FG
The Federal Government has expressed delight that
efforts at encouraging the development of locally made software that would
address the peculiar needs and support the growth of the information and
communication sector of the nation is beginning to yield desired results.
Published
in ThisDay Newspaper on Thursday, 8th November, 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, 8th
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, 8th
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, 8th
November, 2012
CBN reviews criteria
on power, aviation intervention funds
The Central Bank of
Nigeria, CBN, has revised guidelines on the N300bn Power and Airline
Intervention Fund, PAIF.
In a circular signed
by Director , Development Finance Department, Mr. Paul Eluhaiwe, the apex bank
said that power projects by any corporate entity, duly registered in Nigeria,
involved in electricity power supply value chain, including power generation,
transmission, distribution, gas-to-power projects and associated services, are
eligible to apply for the fund.
Published in National Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 9th
November, 2012
FG targets $16bn FDI
in 2013 – Aganga
The Federal Government
on Thursday said that it was targeting 16 billion dollars in foreign direct
investment, (FDI) into Nigeria in 2013 to further create jobs and wealth for
the nation.
Dr Olusegun Aganga,
Minister of Trade and Investment, said this in Abuja at the closing ceremony of
the 8th National Conference on Investment (NCI) organised by the Nigerian
Investment Promotion commission (NIPC).
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 9th November, 2012
Philanthropy: Omu-Aran
spends N30m on schools’ rehabilitation
Projects in Omu-Aran,
Kwara State, executed through the N2 billion Omu- Aran Development Fund to
which Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim contributed last May, have been completed.
Under the fund, N30
million was spent on rehabilitation of science buildings and construction of
laboratories, purchase of science materials, equipment, computer sets, floor
tiles and other items in four community secondary schools.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 9th November, 2012
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