IN torrents, mixed reactions yesterday continued to trail President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal to initiate a bill for a single tenure for president and governors in the country beginning from 2015.
Although, President Jonathan said he would not be a beneficiary, the proposal drew opponents and supporters in equal measure from all parts of the country.
A coalition of over 60 Civil Society Organisations under the auspices of CSO Health Watch, yesterday, raised alarm that Nigeria might lose the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFTAM) following alleged misappropriation of the grants by Nigeria’s Country Coordinating Mechanism, CCM, which oversees and manages the grant.
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MARITIME lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Mr Olisa Agbakoba has decried the neglect of the N7trillion Cabotage trade, calling for a review and full implementation of the Cabotage law to the benefit of the economy.
As the world frowns at the activities of pirates of the Gulf of Edan following its effect on the world’s trade, the virus seem to be spreading to the West African region as pirates again seize a second vessel in the area last weekend.
The Central Bank would soon review upward the limit on banks’ autonomous foreign exchange sales to bureaux de change (BDC).
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called on the 7thNational Assembly “not to bleed the economy.”
Centre for Microenterprise Development (CMD), has called for a holistic overhaul of the model of the micro, small and medium enterprises practice (MSME) in the country.
In its avowed bid to sustain The Wole Soyinka prize for Literature in Africa which started in 2006 as a way to encouraging people to read, think and write, Lumina Foundation
THE Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar has assured that the nation’s railway sector would be fully resuscitated within the next twenty five years to enable Nigeria to compete favourably with the other countries of the world in the area of railway transportation.
The Minister of Trade and Investment Dr. Olusegun Aganga has called for more collaboration between the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment in order to promote and accelerate sustainable Industrial development in the country.
Reserve Bank of India has raised its key interest rate by half a percentage point Tuesday, the 11th hike in less than a year and a half, as it warned that inflation remains the country’s main economic concern.
DANGOTE Cement Plc, and Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc will next month, commission two new cement plants with a total grinding capacity of 8.5 million metric tonnes per annum.
Determined to rid the country of touts and hooligans, a non governmental and social service organization, Change-A-Life Foundation, last week unveiled a special scholarship scheme tagged “Adopt-A-Child Project” under its educational scholarship scheme.
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