Valentine Ozigbo challenges Anambra Diaspora on change for brighter future

NewsNigeriaValentine Ozigbo challenges Anambra Diaspora on change for brighter future

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)October 16, 2023

“Ozigbo’s speech was marvellous, fantastic, and well-received by everyone at the hall,” Prof. Osita E. Aka, the immediate past Caretaker Chair of Anambra State Association, USA [ASA-USA] remarked after the keynote address delivered by politician and business mogul Chief Valentine Ozigbo at the national convention of ASA-USA in Atlanta on Saturday, Oct. 14. Prof. Aka’s remark is one of the many positive feedbacks that greeted Ozigbo’s speech. Onyi Erinne, ASA-USA Board Chairperson, described it as...

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S African Development Foundation CEO Travis Adkins visits Nigeria

BusinessNewsNigeriaS African Development Foundation CEO Travis Adkins visits Nigeria

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)October 16, 2023

President/CEO of the US African Development Foundation, USADF, Travis Adkins will be in Nigeria from October 16 to October 20. The USADF is an independent US government agency established to invest directly in African grassroots enterprises and social entrepreneurs. Adkins will visit Lagos State and the nation’s capital Abuja to deepen economic engagement and investment ties with Nigerian grassroots enterprises and social entrepreneurs. “In Abuja, P/CEO Adkins will engage with USADF grantees in the agricultural...

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Google, KDSG To Train 5,000 females In Data Science, Artificial Intelligence

BusinessNewsNigeriaGoogle, KDSG To Train 5,000 females In Data Science, Artificial Intelligence

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)October 15, 2023

Google in partnering with the Kaduna State Government is to train 5,000 women and girls in data science, artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurial applications of digital technologies. Rabi Salisu, Kaduna State Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development disclosed this at a Roundtable on ‘Mainstreaming Girl Child Education in Kaduna State, Challenges and Policy Recommendations for Families and Government.’ The roundtable, held in Kaduna, was organized by the Kukah Centre in partnership with HJDP Church and Society....

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Security Operatives Rescue 26 People In Kebbi, Jigawa

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaSecurity Operatives Rescue 26 People In Kebbi, Jigawa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)October 14, 2023

The military in a joint operation with other security agencies rescued 18 persons abducted at Kanya, Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State. The Chairman of Danko Wasagu Local Government, Alhaji Hussaini Aliyu-Bena, while confirming the operation to journalists said the abducted persons were rescued at Karen Bena as the bandits attempted to cross into Zamfara State at about 5:30 p.m Thursday. “Many villagers have started returning to their homes and continued with their...

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Tinubu appoints new heads for CAC, SMEDAN, SON, others

NewsNigeriaPoliticsTinubu appoints new heads for CAC, SMEDAN, SON, others

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)October 14, 2023

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointments of new chief executive officers of several agencies and parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment. Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, issued a statement on the appointments on Friday. Ngelale said the appointments were in line with the president’s “resolve to base Nigeria’s economic revival on the foundation of trade expansion through small, medium and large scale industry facilitation...

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CBN lifts foreign-exchange ban on 43 items

BusinessNewsNigeriaCBN lifts foreign-exchange ban on 43 items

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)October 14, 2023

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has ended an eight-year ban on 43 items that had been restricted from accessing foreign exchange, forex, on the official market. The importers of all the previously restricted items “are now allowed to purchase foreign exchange in the Nigerian foreign exchange market,” Isa AbdulMumin, CBN’s director of corporate communications said in a statement on Thursday. In 2015, the CBN banned manufacturers and importers of the items from accessing forex...

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Enugu Governor Flags Off Construction of New City, 40km Dual Carriageway, 71 Urban Roads

NewsNigeriaEnugu Governor Flags Off Construction of New City, 40km Dual Carriageway, 71 Urban Roads

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)October 14, 2023

The Enugu State Governor Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah assures residents of the Coal City of reconstruction and construction of 71 roads within the urban area before the end of the year. Dr. Mbah stated this on Thursday when he flagged off the construction of New Enugu City roads made up of 17km dual carriageway and feeder roads, 40km Owo-Ubahu-Amankanu-Neke-Ikem dual carriageway, and the construction/reconstruction of 71 urban roads in Enugu capital city; the 71 urban...

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Senator Ifeanyi Ubah Confirms Move to APC

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSenator Ifeanyi Ubah Confirms Move to APC

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)October 12, 2023

The senator representing Anambra South senatorial district, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, has joined the All Progressives Congress – APC. This very move is considered in many quarters as a very strategic, though unexpected one, for some reasons, might change a lot of political permutations in Anambra and the Southeast in the coming weeks ahead. Only yesterday, the senator was seen in a photograph with some of his Anambra brothers in Abuja the nation’s capital, in what...

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Ifeanyi Ubah parts with YPP  over “irreconcilable differences” and joins APC

NewsNigeriaPoliticsIfeanyi Ubah parts with YPP  over “irreconcilable differences” and joins APC

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)October 12, 2023

Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah has on Thursday announced his decision to defect from the Young Progressive Party (YPP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ubah, who made his decision known in a letter read by President of Senate, Godswill Akpabio at plenary said that he decided to join the APC because of some irreconcilable differences in the YPP. He said, “I am writing to formally notify and inform you that due to irreconcilable differences, I have...

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Coal Mining Firm To Pay N1billion For Remediation Of Enugu Environment

EconomyNewsNigeriaCoal Mining Firm To Pay N1billion For Remediation Of Enugu Environment

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)October 12, 2023

Following an agreement with the Enugu State Government, Milhouse Energy Services Ltd, a coal mining firm at Awhum in Udi Local Government Area is to pay the sum of one billion naira only into the Enugu State Environmental Remediation Trust Fund; the company will also pay a hundred thousand naira only (N100,000) for tax on every truckload of coal evacuated from the site. The Fund will be managed by an independent committee of professionals and...

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