By Harry Awurumibe As part of his continuous engagements with critical stakeholders within and outside football, Dr. Christian Emeruwa in the early hours of Wednesday met with the Managing Director of TotalEnergies Nigeria Plc, Dr Samba Seye in Lagos to discuss the strategic plans for football in Nigeria and to explore potential partnership with the multi-national organisation when he comes to power. Dr. Emeruwa who is the leading candidate in the forthcoming Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) presidential election billed for September 30 in Benin City, Edo state, said the meeting with TotalEnergies supremo in Nigeria was very fruitful. According to…
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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau Ahead of the 2023 General Election, the impeccable economic management track records of the candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi while in government and as business executive are responsible for the huge support the former Governor of Anambra state is receiving across Nigeria. Also, Obi’s good knowledge of the many economic and political problems plaguing Nigeria and his promise to fix them have endeared him in the hearts of millions of suffering Nigerians hence they are flocking around Labour Party and its candidate. These are the submissions of Labour Party Senatorial candidate, Senator…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Securities and Exchange Commission has been commended on its efforts so far in returning the Commission to profitability and urged to explore ways to further deepen the capital market in a bid to attract more local investors especially young Nigerians. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola gave the commendation at the 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework/Fiscal Strategy Paper, MTEF/FSP interactive session with the Senate Committee on Finance in Abuja Tuesday. Senator Adeola while commending the Management of the Commission for their efforts so far in turning around the fortunes of…
Year after year, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) recommends solutions to tackle economic challenges, even though a good number of such recommendations are jettisoned. The annual summits were planted in February 1993 by Nigeria’s leading lights in the private sector — Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG). The 1990s heralded a pack-full of breathtaking global economic events. And, Nigeria, a leading oil and gas producer and the biggest and largest nation in African region was a factor in world’s economic equation of 90s. At the NES’ maiden edition of February 1993, national leaders explored the 1992 — 2020 global scenarios and…
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has received a donation of one million U.S. dollars from China to support education in the West Bank. The agency said in a statement that China donated one million U.S. dollars to provide Palestine refugee school children with access to quality, equitable and inclusive basic education through the UNRWA’s education program. “The generous donation from China will be used by UNRWA to educate about 9,200 students in 19 schools in the West Bank for two months this year,” the statement said. UNRWA expressed its deep appreciation to the Chinese…
An Ado-Ekiti High Court has on Wednesday sentenced a 31-year -old “Okada” rider, Ojo Adebayo to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old girl. The defendant was arraigned on one count charge of defilement before Justice Olalekan Olatawura in March. Delivering judgment, Justice Olatawura, held that identification of the defendant by the victim as the person who raped her is not only compelling but credible, same not having been discredited under cross examination and therefore not mistaken. “In all, I find established and proved beyond reasonable doubts by the prosecution that the defendant and no other person defiled the minor. ”Consequently…
Mr Daniel Okafor, National President, Potato Farmers Association of Nigeria (POFAN), says food security can be achieved in the country through technologically improved measures of preservation of perishable foods. Okafor said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. According to him, agricultural commodities are not only perishable, but time bound, unless there is effort towards food preservation either in processed form or fresh form, food security cannot be achieved. He noted that agro commodities were known to be relatively cheap during harvesting season because of availability, but only to be out of…
Some stakeholders in the project management ecosystem have identified diversity, inclusion and collaboration as some of Africa’s leading catalysts for economic growth. The stakeholders made the assertion at the 2022 Project Management Institute (PMI) Africa Conference which ended on Tuesday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the three-day conference had the theme: ‘Sustainable Growth for Social Good’’. The stakeholders urged governments to be inclusive in policymaking by collaborating with other stakeholders, including communities where projects would be domiciled. The Managing Director of PMI’s Sub-Sahara region, Mr George Asamani, said that successful countries, companies and communities applied project management…
A 17-year old teenager, Suleiman Muhammed, has drowned in a pond at Wailari Quarters in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State. This is contained in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, on Wednesday in Kano. Abdullahi said the incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon. “We received an emergency call at about 03:47p.m. from one Muhammed Salisu and we sent our rescue team to the scene at about 03:56p.m’’, saying Muhammed was brought out of the water unconscious and was later confirmed dead. Abdullahi said the corpse had been handed over…
The panel of judges for the Nigeria Prize for Science said that two outstanding scientific works have won the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) 100,000 dollars prize. Prof. Barth Nnaji, a former Minister of Power and Chairperson of the Advisory Board for the prize made the announcement at a news conference in Lagos on Wednesday. The theme of the event organised by NLNG for the 2022 edition is: “Innovations in Sustainable Food Security”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the panel of judges for the Nigeria Prize for Science received 107 entries from scientists worldwide for the 2022…