Empowerment:
Group to empower 500 women
Not less than 500 women, from the women’s wing of the Vigilante
Group of Nigeria (VGN), will soon have cause to smile, as the group said it as
mapped out strategies to empower them in the area of Agriculture.
Published
in Vanguard Newspaper on Sunday, 20th October, 2013
Health:
Nigeria women bear average of six children – World Bank
The World Bank database has shown that Nigerian
women give birth to an average of six children within their childbearing years.
Published
in The Punch Newspaper on Sunday, 20th October, 2013
Education:
Nigeria to Access U.S. $500 Million for Education
Nigeria is to access $500 million from international funding
agencies to boost educational development and enhance access to universal basic
education in the country.
Published
in ThisDay Newspaper on Sunday, 20th October, 2013
Philanthropy:
DFID Project Donates N288m Health Equipment to Yobe
The United Kingdom’s Department For International
Development (DFID) funded project, Partnership for Reviving Routine
Immunisation in Northern Nigeria and Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PRRINN-
MNCH) Initiative, has donated health equipment worth N288 million
to Yobe State.
Published
in ThisDay Newspaper on Sunday, 20th October, 2013
Sustainable
Development: World Bank forecasts Africa’s growth
The
World Bank has forecast a 4.9 percent economic growth for sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA).
According to the bank, almost a third of the countries in the
region are growing at 6 per cent and more. It said African countries were now
routinely among the fastest-growing countries in the world.
Published
in ThisDay Newspaper on Sunday, 20th October, 2013
Infrastructure:
Government unfolds N200m Port Decongestion Plan
The Federal Government may have concluded plans to transfer 4,000
containers from the Lagos Ports to a dedicated terminal for unclaimed cargoes
in Ikorodu.
Published
in Vanguard Newspaper on Sunday, 20th October, 2013
Agriculture: Ghana
Launches National Yam Strategy
Ghana has taken a major step ahead of other yam-producing nations with
the launch of a strategy for the development of the yam industry from farm to
market. This follows the global conference on yams held in Accra on October 3-6
and ongoing strategic development for the sector.
Published in ThisDay
Newspaper on Monday, 21st October, 2013
Award: Sanusi
bags Central Bank of the year award for sub-Saharan Africa
For the third time in his four years in office, Sanusi Lamido
Sanusi, the governor of the Central Bank o f Nigeria (CBN), has bagged the 2013
best Central Bank of the Year Award for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Published
in ThisDay Newspaper on Monday, 21st October, 2013
Labour: Delta
to employ 20,000 youths through SEEFOR project
Worried by the high rate of youth unemployment in
the state, Delta State Government is to employ over 20,000 youths in the next
five years through the Small Public Works sub-component of the State Employment
and Expenditure for Results, SEEFOR Project.
Published
in ThisDay Newspaper on Monday, 21st October, 2013
Award:
Standard Chartered CEO wins African Business Award
Bola Adesola, CEO, Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Limited, has
emerged winner of the outstanding woman in business category at the African
Business Awards, 2013.
Published
in BusinessDay Newspaper on Tuesday, 22nd October, 2013
Philanthropy:
X3M Ideas give school a new face
A top creative advertising firm in Nigeria, handling advertising
needs of renowned organisations has renovated a block of classrooms of Opebi
Junior Grammar School as part of its corporate social responsibility
programmes.
Published
in BusinessDay Newspaper on Tuesday, 22nd October, 2013
Philanthropy:
Nestle renovates school, brings joy to Ogun Community
History was made recently when Nestle Nigeria Plc. handed over a
renovated block of St. Paul’s Anglican Nursery and Primary School, Orile-Imo,
in Owode Egba Ogun State, to the community.
Published
in Daily Sun Newspaper on Tuesday, 22nd October, 2013
ICT:
IBM develops two-factor security for Mobile Transactions
IBM unveiled a new mobile authentication technology based on the
near field communications standard, adding a additional layer of security to
NFC-based transactions including online banking and accessing a corporate
Intranet or private cloud
Published
in The Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 23rd October, 2013
Education: Sokoto to spend N2.86b
on Education
The Sokoto State government has said that it would spend over
N2.86 billion on various projects in primary and junior secondary education
sub-sectors.
Published
in The Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 23rd 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 Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 23rd October, 2013
ICT: Nigerians account for 40% smartphones purchases in Africa
Recent research has shown that Nigerian consumers are responsible
for 40% of smart phone purchased on the African continent.
Published
in The Vanguard Newspaper on Thursday, 24th October, 2013
Philanthropy: Nigeria
Communications Commission donates 220 laptops
The Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Communications,
Hon. Ojo Oyetunde, has advised Nigerian students to avoid all forms of cyber
crimes capable of destroying their future.
Published
in The Vanguard Newspaper on Thursday, 24th 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 National Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 25th October, 2013
Health:
Cholera Outbreak Kills 62 in Nigeria
About 12 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 Friday, 25th October, 2013
Nigeria
elected to UN Security Council
President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed delight
over Nigeria’s election into non-permanent seat of the United Nations Security
Council. This is contained in a statement
issued in Abuja on Thursday by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati.
Published
in Punch Newspaper on Friday, 25th October, 2013
Education:
FG praises Ekiti over Educational Growth
The Federal Government yesterday scored the Ekiti State Government
high on the provision of a mega Early Childhood Development Centre.
Published
in The Nation Newspaper on Friday, 18th 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 ThisDay Newspaper on Friday, 25th October, 2013
Climate
Change: Delta launches Climate Change Policy Plan
Delta State Government on Thursday launched its
Climate Change Policy and Integrated Territorial Climate Change Plan, making
history as the first State in the country to develop its own climate change
policy and programme.
Published
in National Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 25th October, 2013
