Yemisi Izuora Dana Air said it is committed to youth development and entrepreneurship in Nigeria, with its recent partnership with Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs (A.Y.E) Reality TV Show. Communications Manager of Dana Air, Kingsley Ezenwa, while signing the partnership agreement with Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs said the partnership with Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs Empowerment Nigeria (AYEEN) is to identify budding entrepreneurs with exceptional ideas and help showcase their potential to the world. Ezenwa added: “As a responsible corporate organisation, we are committed to helping young entrepreneurs actualise their aspirations and we believe there is no better way to reduce crime rate and unemployment…
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Yemisi Izuora Nigeria is slightly moving close to self food sufficiency just as the country’s total paddy rice production in 2016 was estimated to have climbed to 17,487,562 metric tons, leaving a balance of about 11.4 million metric tons after accounting for 12.4 per cent of rice production wasted due to post-harvest losses. This left a total of 5.7 million metric tons of milled rice, bringing Nigeria’s rice production closer to the 7 million projected milled rice requirement for 2016. This information was contained in a report by Growth and Employment in States (GEMS4), a programme funded by the United…
Source: Vanguard The Federal and Lagos State Governments are seeking sanctions against Kenya Airways for conveying a corpse from the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, without necessary approval even as laboratory test conducted on the body revealed that the cause of death was not Ebola Virus disease. Also, contrary to speculations that the corpse was brought to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, the Management said the body was not taken to LUTH but quarantine at the airport. Reacting to the development on his twitter handle, the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole who paid an unscheduled assessment visit to…
Yemisi Izuora The Jesuit Alumni of Nigeria,an affiliate of World Union of Jesuit Alumni would converge in Lagos to discuss the up coming ‘2017 WUJA Congress’. The event is scheduled to hold from June 28 to July 2 at John Caroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. In a statement Sina Buraimoh-Ademuyewo, vice president World Union of Jesuit Alumni/ae, the WUJA which was founded in 1956, holds an international Congress every four years to gather Jesuit friends and alumni from as many as 50 countries representing a global network of Jesuit ministries to build international networks and affirm Jesuit centric values for a greater…
Yemisi Izuora Access Bank Plc has unveiled a new savings scheme tagged ‘Family Savings Scheme’ initiated to give its customers a boost in their savings. The exercise is in line with the Bank’s commitment to promoting savings culture among the populace. The ‘Family Savings Scheme’ is a savings scheme designed to encourage families to save together and enjoy exclusive privileges such as high interest rates and family rewards while they continue to enjoy the confidentiality of their banking relation and manage their accounts as unique individuals. The Scheme provides access to people who are presently excluded from financial services whilst…
Yemis Izuora The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG) have signed a Service Level Agreement (SLA) committing themselves to compliance with the provisions of the Nigerian Content Act and timely approvals of documents respectively. The Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Wabote and Managing Director of NLNG, Engr. Tony Attah signed on behalf of their organisations. The SLA, first of its kind to be entered between a regulator and another entity in the oil and gas industry would be adopted as the template for managing documentations, contracting and expatriate quota between the…
Yemisi Izuora The Senior Special Adviser on Media to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Kayode Oyeleye, has offered explanation to the decision of government to import grazing grass into the country. Oyeleye said the move was basically to facilitate the re-planting of lands reserved for cattle ranch so that the perennial lack of grazing grass for cattle nationwide would be eliminated. “The FG had good intentions in this regard so that the problem of grazing grass would be solved once and for all in the near future. But some people misconceived the government’s intention to mean regular…
Fidelity Bank Plc in collaboration with Gazelle Academy and the Federal Polytechnic, Oko Venture has finalized arrangement for an entrepreneurship training programme for 400 students in Anambra State aimed at reducing youth unemployment levels in Nigeria, The Programme which is packaged under the Fidelity Youth Empowerment Academy stream three, was put together to equip the students with requisite business skills even whilst in school. According to the Bank’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo, the initiative seeks to empower the Polytechnic Community by creating thriving business owners amongst students. He disclosed this during a closing ceremony of the third…
By Admin The Nigerian Senate has passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, the long-awaited legislation that promises broad reforms to the nation’s oil and gas industry. The report on the bill, produced by the Senate joint committee on gas, petroleum (downstream) and petroleum (upstream), was presented on Thursday by Donald Alasoadura, APC-Ondo. After a clause-by-clause consideration, with few amendments, the Senate approved the bill, moving a step closer to making its ambitious contents law. Amongst other objectives, the petroleum bill seeks to introduce reforms that would engender transparency, while at the same time making the oil and gas sector more…