Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday presided over a virtual meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was the fourth virtual meeting as the nation complies with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) protocol on COVID-19 pandemic. The governors joined the virtual NEC from their respective states. At the last virtual meeting on Aug. 20, NEC disclosed that President Muhmmadu Buhari had approved the sum of N13 billion for the implementation of community policing in the country. It said the president’s gesture was borne out of his resolve to rejig the security…
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EU competition regulators on Thursday gave the green light to a 44-billion-euro (51.9 billion dollars) Italian recapitalisation scheme for virus-hit large companies. They noted it would support the Italian economy and labour market. According to the regulators, the scheme consists of four measures involving recapitalisation instruments, in particular equity and hybrid capital instruments such as convertible bonds and subordinated debt. They also aimed at large companies that saw a sharp fall in this year’s revenues. According to the European Commission, the scheme complies with its conditions for state aid granted to companies affected by the coronavirus outbreak. “This include ban…
Alhaji Bilyamu Othman, the Emir of Dass, has urged journalists in Bauchi State to uphold the ethics of the profession and report objectively while discharging their social responsibility of information dissemination. Othman gave this advice while receiving the executive members of the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ) Bauchi State Council on Thursday in Dass Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Emir of Dass is the grand patron of the NUJ in Bauchi. He said that journalists as the fourth estate of the realm should employ quality reportage in all the sectors of…
FC Barcelona and Argentina captain Lionel Messi has won a legal battle over trademark rights relating to his own logo. This was after the European Union’s top court on Thursday dismissed an appeal against the player from a Spanish cycling clothing brand. The EU’s Court of Justice in Luxembourg said in a statement it had authorised the player to register the trademark Messi. It dismissed an appeal from the EU’s intellectual property office EUIPO and the Spanish company Massi. Messi first filed an application with the property office in 2011 to trademark his surname as a sportswear, footwear and equipment…
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo says President Muhammadu Buhari’s call for a peaceful and credible governorship election in the state is a re-assuring tunic that will boost voter turnout on Sept. 19. Mr Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser on media and communications strategy to the governor, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Thursday in Benin. According to him, the governor thanks the president for his wise counsel, saying this will make all Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), supporters and voters to troop out on Saturday. “We thank the president for his quick intervention urging the security…
A 30-year-old man, Dickson Ezekiel, on Thursday appeared at a Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, for allegedly selling three stolen pre-paid meters to a man. Ezekiel of Saburi village in Abuja is charged with criminal conspiracy, impersonation and being in possession of property suspected to be stolen. The Prosecution Counsel, John Okpa, told the court that the complainant, Abdulrahman Hadilu, reported the matter at the Kubwa Police Station on Sept. 8. Okpa said that the defendant and one Chisom Uhegwu currently at large conspired and presented themselves as members of staff of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to…
The Abia Government has declared the developer of a collapsed building at No. 85 Azikiwe road, Aba, one Mr Emmanuel Ohaka, wanted for alleged complicity. The declaration is contained in a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information, Chief John Kalu, on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government made the declaration, following the discovery of two additional dead bodies in the collapsed building, bringing the number of dead persons at the site, to three. According to the commissioner, one survivor was brought out of the rubbles alive while the other three, two females and…
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is to partner with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) towards generating investment in Information Communication Technology (ICT), start-ups, to create jobs and wealth in the country. NITDA Director-General, Mr Kashifu Inuwa, said this on Thursday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy visit on Mr Uche Orji, the Managing Director of NSIA. Inuwa noted that ICT was taking over world economies, hence the need for massive investment that would result in IT infrastructure development in the country. “It is important to stimulate the IT industry through content localisation rather than importation from…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerian traders in Ghana that the Federal Government will ensure that they get justice despite the delay in resolving their concerns regarding some stiff business regulations imposed by Ghanaian authorities. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the vice president gave the assurance during a meeting with representatives of the Nigerian community in Ghana on Tuesday. The meeting, which was held at the official residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, was focused on the challenges facing Nigerians living in the West African nation including the locking of…
Kim Kardashian West is joining other celebrities to freeze her Facebook and Instagram accounts on Wednesday, in a campaign urging the world’s biggest social media company to curb the spread of hate and propaganda. “Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our democracy,” Kardashian West wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday expressing support for the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign against Facebook Inc. Actors including Kerry Washington, Jennifer Lawrence and Sacha Baron Cohen also tweeted on Tuesday, calling on Facebook to do more. The campaign, launched by civil rights groups this summer,…