Source: Vanguard WHAT is the role of AIO to the communities it serves? AIO works on various initiatives to, among others, strengthen a number of insurance pools to grow African insurance and reinsurance capacity across the continent. It has also worked to develop micro insurance. The AIO hosts an annual conference and general assembly that creates a platform for members to share global experiences on insurance and re-insurance matters with the goal of furthering the development of the insurance industry. The conference is held on a rotational basis and Uganda is hosting it this year. Considering this conference is attracting…
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Yemisi Izuora The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Engr. Saleh Dunoma, has initiated the implementation of the Executive Order given by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. Engr. Dunoma assured the Acting President of full compliance and has immediately put in place machinery to ensure a successful implementation of the Executive Order which he will supervise himself. He said the importance of the Executive Order cannot be overemphasized, especially because it will strengthen the nation’s fight against terrorism, eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that impedes business activities at our airports. He also added that, this will improve safety,…
Yemisi Izuora Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has announced a package of over N300 million to train 52 executive members of the National Association Nigerian Students (NANS) in non-violence education in Nigeria and at Emory University in the United States. Onyema broke the news when the Grand Patron of NANS in Akwa Ibom State, Ubong King, and leaders of the students’ body visited the corporate headquarters of Air Peace in Lagos recently. The airline, he added, would also henceforth fly leaders of NANS and all other categories of students to school on resumption and out of school…
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…
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…