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The acting Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Abuja Enterprise Agency (AEA) Mr. Chudi Ezirigwe, has said the agency is repositioning to deliver quality services to the public. Ezirigwe stated this at the opening of a two-week training facilitated by the German Agency for International Co-operation (GIZ), with the theme, “Trainer Facilitator and Coach”, in Abuja on Tuesday. He explained that the agency was undergoing massive reformation in line with President Bola Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda. Ezirigwe said that the move became necessary to ensure the delivery of top-notch professional entrepreneurial development services. This, according to him, will stimulate business…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the Nov.11 Kogi governorship election was free, fair and credible, faulting claims that it tampered with the accredited figures of voters in the election. INEC said this in a statement by its National Commissioner and member, Information and Voter Education Committee, Alhaji Mohammed Haruna in Abuja. “The attention of INEC has been drawn to some media reports alleging it tampered with the accredited figures of voters in Kogi governorship election results uploaded on the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal. “However, these reports are unfounded. “For the avoidance of doubt, the most accurate and…
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, says there should be global standards to regulate digital contents in the country. Sanwo-Olu stated this as a guest at the ongoing Third Nigeria Digital Content Regulation Conference (NDCRC) organised by the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), in Lagos. The governor, who was represented by Mrs Oloruntoyin Atekoja, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture. said that Lagos State had become a hub for creativity, talent, and innovation, attracting filmmakers from all corners of the globe. READ ALSO: Abuja Enterprise Agency Repositioning to Serve Citizens Better – MD ValueJet PortHarcourt…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his call to stop the killing of women and children in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu again appealed for support for his country’s fight against the Islamist group Hamas. “It is not Israel that is deliberately targeting civilians but Hamas that beheaded, burned, and massacred civilians in the worst horrors perpetrated on Jews since the Holocaust,” Netanyahu wrote directly to Trudeau in a post on X, formerly Twitter, early on Wednesday. “The forces of civilisation must back Israel in defeating Hamas’ barbarism,” Netanyahu continued. Earlier, Trudeau had…
By Halimah Olamide A Nigerian woman has alleged that Minister of Works, Engr Dave Umahi has refused to pay her N200m being the sum she allegedly spent to produce some promotional materials for him 9 years ago. Calling on President Bola Tinubu to come to her aid by asking Umahi, who was Governor of Ebonyi state for eight years to pay her money, the woman said rather than pay her her money, the Minister has allegedly resorted to threatening her life and that of her family. She said the development has tied down her business capital. READ ALSO: Old Naira…
Brazilian cities including Sao Paulo are among those to be experiencing high temperatures Red alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which have been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave. Records have been broken in areas including the city Rio de Janeiro – where temperatures felt as high as 52.5C. More than a hundred million people have been affected by the heat, which is expected to last until at least Friday. Officials have attributed it to the El Niño phenomenon and climate change. The city of Sao Paulo saw average temperatures of 37.3C on Tuesday afternoon, the…
Arinola Omolayo owns a frozen food store in Ogba, a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, where she sells mostly imported chicken, fish and turkey. She says she used to be happy coming to the shop, “but now I feel reluctant”. The reason is the soaring price of food. Frozen chicken now costs about 3,400 naira ($4; £3.50) per kilo – an increase of more than 26% in the past three months. “Customers that used to buy 1kg of fish or chicken now ask for half a kilo… my bigtime customers I usually supply… 3-4kgs, now they barely buy…
By Halimah Olamide The Nigeria Labour Congress has restated its demands on conditions to be met in order to open conversations over the ongoing nationwide strike that started on Tuesday. The NLC, in a statement on Tuesday said the arrest and prosecution of Mr. Chinasa Nwaneri Special Adviser to Governor Hope Uzodinma on Special Duties, is critical to the resolution of the impasse. Among other demands, the workers organization said police officers involved in the attacks on Mr. Joe Ajaero President of the NLC in Owerri must be dismissed from the force. The NLC also demanded identification and prosecution of…
By Kamil Opeyemi Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed over one party system in the country. This was as he believes that the merger of Nigeria’s opposition parties will help in forming a stronger front against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2023 presidential election, said this in Abuja on Tuesday when he hosted the national executive committee of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) led by its National President, Yabagi Sani. “Today, during a meeting with the National Executive Committee of the Inter-Party Advisory Council Nigeria (IPAC), I emphasised the…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes are to remain legal tender indefinitely. While new currency notes were introduced last year with the old ones set to cease as legal tender, the apex bank on Tuesday extended “the legal tender status deadline of the old design of N200, N500 and N1,000 denominations, ad infinitum”. In a statement on Tuesday by the apex bank’s Director of Corporate Communications Isa AbdulMuminIt explained that the move is in line with international best practices and “to forestall a repeat of earlier experiences. “Thus, all…