Safety
Rules: Lagos Reads Riot Act to Private Schools
Lagos State government has warned
proprietors of private primary and secondary schools operating in the state
against the increasing cases of accident and hazard, which have either claimed
their students’ lives and cost them irreparable damage.
The
state government also lamented the growing rate of death among pupils and
students in the state private primary and secondary schools, resulting from the
compromise of safety measures.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Sunday, 17th February, 2013
Environment:
Prepare for Heavy Rains, Flooding This Year – NIMET
Nigerians
have been asked to prepare for heavy rainfall and flooding in 2013 which could
be the same or worse than the 2012 episode.
Presenting
the 2013 Seasonal Rainfall Prediction for this year and the release of the 2012
Nigerian Climate Review Bulletin in Abuja yesterday, director-general of
Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET), Dr. Anthony Anuforom, said that this
year's rainfall prediction pattern in most parts of Nigeria would likely to be
similar to that of 2012.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Sunday, 17th February, 2013
Environment:
NIMET predicts Heavy Rainfall, Flooding
in Sokoto, Kwara, Others
With
memories of last year’s flooding still fresh, the Nigerian Meteorological
Agency (NIMET) has predicted heavy rainfall for year 2013.
The
agency’s Director General, Dr. Anthony Anuforom, Saturday, in Abuja, said this
year’s rainfall pattern would not be different from what the country witnessed
last year.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Sunday, 17th February, 2013
ICT:
Gov, Minister Disagree Publicly on Supply
of Schools’ Computers
Computers were supplied. No, they weren’t. Thus the drama
played out, Saturday, during the National Good Governance Tour of Rivers State,
as Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, and State Governor, Rotimi
Amechi, disagreed on whether the Federal Government supplied computers to 10
secondary schools each across the 36 states of the federation.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Sunday, 17th February, 2013
Health:
Nigeria’s HIV Resource Centre will enhance Research - Experts
Nigeria has set up an HIV/AIDS
centre to ensure better coordination of researches into the endemic in the West
African country.
The
centre, funded under the Enhancing National Response (ENR) programme of the
Department for International Department (DFID), aims to make HIV/AIDS related
researches like Nigeria AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey (NARHS), Modes of
Transmission (MOT) Study, Integrated Biological and Behavioural Surveillance
Survey (IBBSS), among others, available to stakeholders.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Sunday, 17th February, 2013
Health:
Roadmap on Quality Healthcare Underway
A
roadmap that would facilitate the realization of country’s quest to
improved healthcare delivery is in the making.
This
was disclosed by the Minister of State, Health, Muhammad Ali Pate,
at the strategy meeting of the task team on quality improvement and
clinical governance held in Abuja at the week end.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Sunday, 17th February, 2013
Agriculture:
Ethiopian Government launches US$5 Million Project with AGRA
A
new set of 93 management trainees have successfully completed the third
edition of the banking school programme of the UBA Academy as part of the
bank’s pre-requisite for gainful employment in the institution.
At
the colourful convocation ceremony held at the bank headquarters,the group
managing director/CEO, Phillips Oduoza described the banking school as a key
platform for gauging the human capital investment of the bank noting that
‘human capital investment’ remains UBA Plc’s biggest asset.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Sunday, 17th February, 2013
Agriculture:
Ethiopian Government launches US$5 Million Project with AGRA
The Ethopian Ministry of Agriculture and the Alliance for
Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has launched a new US$ 5million project aimed
at doubling agricultural production by smallholder farmers in the next five
years.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Sunday, 17th February, 2013
Philanthropy:
Fayrouz partners Darey On Love --- Like a Movie
Fayrouz,
the unique premium soft drink from the stable of Nigerian Breweries, is
partnering with Africa’s King of R/B Darey Art Alade to give music lovers the
ultimate experience this valentine with theatrical expressions of love.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Sunday, 17th February, 2013
Development: FG
secures $12bn for real sector development
The
Federal Government weekend announced that it has mobilised about $12 billion
for real sector development as part of its efforts to boost the economy in 2013
and beyond.
Published in BusinessDay
Newspaper on Monday, 18th February, 2013
Health:
Lassa Fever claims 100,000 lives in Nigeria
A
total of 100,000 lives were lost to Lassa fever in the country between January
1969 and January 2013, Dennis Agbonlahor, former vice-chancellor of Ambrose
Alli University (AUU), Ekpoma in Edo State has said.
Published in BusinessDay
Newspaper on Monday, 18th February, 2013
Philanthropy:
Oil firm donates furniture, laboratory, equipment to school in Benin
In
fulfilment of one of its Corporate Social Responsibility, the management of
Integrated Data Services Limited donated school furniture and science
labouratory equipment to Oba Ewuare Grammar School located at Oko community in
Benin City.
Published in BusinessDay
Newspaper on Monday, 18th February, 2013
As part of efforts geared towards enhancing bilateral trade
between Nigeria and Niger Republic, the National Association of Chambers of
Commerce, Industry, Mine and Agriculture of Nigeria (NACCIMA) and the Niger
Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Cottage Industry have inaugurated the
Nigeria-Niger Chamber of Commerce to such end.
Published in Guardian
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th February, 2013
Philanthropy:
Dickson breathes life into secondary education scholarship
One of the few things Governor Henry Seriake Dickson promised
during his electioneering is to declare a state of emergency in education and
make education compulsory at all levels. As part of his promise to make
education a top priority in his administration, Dickson resuscitated the
secondary education programme known as Jonathan Scholarship Scheme, but now
rechristened Bayelsa Restoration Scholarship Scheme.
Published in Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th February, 2013
Despite increasing production from emerging oil producing
countries around the continent, Nigeria still produces over half of sub-Saharan
Africa’s total oil, the Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development
Company (SPDC), Mr Mutiu Sunmonu, has said.
Published in Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th February, 2013
Labour:
FG plans UN jobs for skilled corps members
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the
Federal Government, under an arrangement with United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), will recruit young professionals that will work on a variety
of UN programmes in various parts of the world.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th February, 2013
Water sachet nylons, polythene bags, plastic
bottles, broken plastic buckets, basins, cans etc., litter the streets and
gutters leading to blockage of drains and generally making the environment
unsightly and unhealthy.
It was so bad that the former Director-General of
NAFDAC, Professor Dora Akunyili called for the banning of sachet water because
of the amount of waste generated.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th February, 2013
An Information Communication Technology, ICT
expert, Dr. I.K. Oyeyinka, has said that Nigeria can be far better than India
in technology if the right institutions and government agencies properly manage
computer gurus in the country.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th February, 2013
The President, Nigerian Academy of Letters and
former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor
Munzali Jibril, has called for funding of reforms in Nigerian higher education
system to diversify its recourse base and deliver the quality output that is
needed to make Nigeria a respected player in the knowledge economy of the 21st
Century.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th February, 2013
Education: Lagos tasks parents on Free Education
The Permanent Secretary,Ministry of Education,
Lagos State, Mrs. Omolara Erogbogbo, has urged parents to take advantage of the freebasic education offered by the state government and send
their children to school.
Published in Vanguard
Newspaper on Tuesday, 19th February, 2013
MDGs:
Okonjo –Iweala to MDGs Office: Complete unfinished business
The
Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi
Iweala, yesterday advised the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Office to
complete its unfinished business by achieving the remaining goals
Published in The Nation
Newspaper on Wednesday, 20th February, 2013
Environment: NEMA,
SEMA begin damage assessment
Officials
of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) have been deployed in
Ibadan, the Oyo State capital to assess the damage doe by Sunday’s rainstorm.
Published in The Nation
Newspaper on Wednesday, 20th February, 2013
Projects:
Lagos to rehabilitate 1,000 roads
Lagos State government has expressed its determination to
make residents’ movement hitch-free. It has therefore set a target of
rehabilitating about 1,000 roads, a proposal that has been captured in the 2013
budget.
Published in The Nation
Newspaper on Wednesday, 20th February, 2013
Health:
WHO, Nigeria unveil fresh plan to tackle NTDs
Nigeria has taken a step further in the global fight against
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) with the launch of a Multi-Year Master Plan
for the control and elimination of the diseases
Published in The Guardian
Newspaper on Wednesday, 20th February, 2013
Philanthropy:
Red Cross gives N20m worth of relief materials to flood victims in Anambra
In
response to disaster emergencies, the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRSC) has
commenced the distribution of relief matrials worth over N20 million to the
nine local councils of the state devastated by flood last year.
Published in The Guardian
Newspaper on Wednesday, 20th February, 2013
Philanthropy:
Rotary Club of Lagos Palmgrove donated incubator, waterbeds to LUTH
In
continuation of its humanitarian services, the Rotary Club of Lagos Plamgrove
Estate yesterday donated an incubator and five water beds to Lagos University
Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos.
Published in The Guardian
Newspaper on Wednesday, 20th February, 2013
Partnership:
Nigeria, Oman sign MoU on Capital Market Development
The
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Nigeria and Capital Authority of
Oman has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the effective
development of Capiyal Market Operation across the Africa and Middle East
continents.
Published in The Guardian
Newspaper on Wednesday, 20th February, 2013
Oil & Gas: Our
operations threatened by vandals – Momoh
Managing Director, Pipelines and Products Marketing Company
(PPMC), Mr. Haruna Momoh, says the quest to ensure efficient and uninterrupted
supply of petroleum products in Nigeria has been severely hampered by a set of
people, who specialize in the vandalisation of pipelines conveying both raw
crude oil, as well as refined petroleum products across the country.
Published in Daily Sun Newspaper on Thursday,
21st February, 2013
Oil & Gas: FG to reduce gas flaring to 2% by 2014
The Federal Government, as part of initiatives to improve on its gas
master-plan, has disclosed its resolve to reduce gas flaring in the country to
two per cent from the current 11 per cent by the year 2014.
Published in Daily Sun Newspaper on Thursday,
21st February, 2013
Partnership: Akwa Ibom, Canada to partner on Power
Supply
Akwa
Ibom Government has sought partnership with Canadian companies in the
generation of adequate electricity supply to boost the state economy.
Governor
Godswill O. Akpabio, who made the call Tuesday when the High Commissioner of
Canada to Nigeria, Mr. Chris Cooter, paid him a courtesy visit at the
Governor’s Office, Uyo, said currently the state Independent Power Plant is
producing 191 megawatts of electricity and needs partnership to generate more
and distribute same to many consumers.
Published in Daily Independent Newspaper
on Thursday, 21st February, 2013
Philanthropy: Addax donates N5m to orphanage in Calabar
Addax
Petroleum Company has donated N500,000 to an orphanage in Calabar 9Uwanse) as
part of its Corporate Social Responsibility.
Published in Daily
Independent Newspaper on Thursday, 21st February, 2013
Project:
Imo govt begins N10b project
Imo State government has commenced the construction of eight
units of lower 16 floor towers that would be dedicated as centenary project,
which is estimated to cost N10 billion.
Published in Daily
Independent Newspaper on Thursday, 21st February, 2013
Oil: Nigeria to
keep Oil Production steady at 2.4mbdp in 2013
Nigeria’s
current oil production if 2.4 million barrels per day (mbdp) is expected to
remain at steady at that level this year, Group Executive Director (GED), in
charge of Exploration and Production at the National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Abiye
Membere has said.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Friday, 22nd February, 2013
Inauguration: FG
inaugurates Board of SON, CAC, NEPC, OGFZA
The
Federal Government, on Thursday, inaugurated the boards of four parastatals
under the supervision of the Ministry of Trade and Investment.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Friday, 22nd February, 2013
Environment: Fresh
oil spills devastate Bayelsa Community
At
least, six fresh oil spills from pipelines belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil
Company, NAOC, have devastated the environment of Kalaba Community in Yenagoa
Local Government Area of Balyesa State, destroying acquatic lives and crops in
their farmlands.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Friday, 22nd February, 2013
Appointment: CAC,
NEPC, othees get new boards
The
Federal Government yesterday inaugurated boards under the Ministry of Trade and
Investment.
The
four agencies include: Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Corporate
Affairs Commission (CAC), Nigerian Expor Promotion Council (NEPC) and the Oil
and Gas Free Zone Authority (OGFZA).
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 22nd February, 2013
Agriculture: ‘FG’s
agric transformation will not succed without technology’.
The
Agriculture Transformation Agenda of the Federal Government will not succeed
without the application of modern technology used for enhanced agriculture
activities, including the provision of phones for farmers.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 22nd February, 2013
Projects: Nigerian
steel pipes best for construction projects, says firm
The
Managing Director of Nigeria Gas and Steel Limited (NGSL), Mr. Hasib Moukarim,
said Nigerian engineers, architects and steel structural engineers have
gradually adopted welded steel pipes due to its cost saving benefits and other
advantages in construction projects in the country.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 22nd February, 2013
