AS part of  Global HandWashing Day and in continuation of its “A Million Clean Hands” programme, Saponaria Industries, maker of Sanitol range of hand sanitisers, celebrated the day at Ilupeju Primary School, Lagos in the presence of teachers, children and Headmistress with distribution of soaps to children and cleaning products to the school.

IN February 2018, Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo described MTN as a classic example of the many success stories of Foreign Direct Investments, FDIs, in Nigeria. Prof. Osinbajo noted this much during the launch of a policy laboratory aimed at accelerating the intervention of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP. The ERGP initiative is catalyst for the required $35 billion to bridge Nigeria’s massive infrastructure gap over a six to seven year period. The deficit in Nigeria’s infrastructure is the main reason it was listed as the country with the largest number of poor people in the world. As the  pressure from a lack of resources in power, roads, education, healthcare and industrial capacity continue to erode the quality of life for an exploding population, our government officials – career civil servants and political appointees alike – play hard and fast with one of the most globally effective tried and tested mechanisms for bridging these gaps; public private partnerships, PPP, backed by foreign investment.

ABA— THE death toll from last Friday Osisioma fuel pipeline explosion has risen to 200, even as protesting youths from the host communities of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, depot, yesterday, shut operation at the facility over the incident.

Worried by the decay in the nation’s health care system, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, has stressed that revitalization of primary health facilities, if prioritized by governments at all levels, will put the country health system on a better paedestrian.

A former presidential aspirant and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Charles Udeogaranya  has described as wrong and a serious breach of constitutional rights of a citizen, the ascribing of corrupt tag on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar by APC  when no court of law has found him guilty on corruption charges. 

NIGER Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has assured the people of oil-rich Ugborodo in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State that the shore protection mega project in the area would be completed.

An Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has advised the Ojukaye Flag-Amachree and Peter Odike factions of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state not to take any step that would truncate the court process on the matter.

THE Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, Engr Simbi Wabote,Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, and Mr. Udom Inoyo, Executive Vice Chairman, ExxonMobil, Nigeria, and several others are set for the 3rd Africa Oil & Gas Talent Summit in Lagos, Nigeria.

GOtv, a digital pay television offering on the digital terrestrial television, DTT, platform has announced the commencement of its open week for their subscribers in celebration of its 7th   anniversary.

Stakeholders have called for the prioritization of girl-child empowerment as part of strategies to overcome the high level of poverty in Nigeria.

WHEN an aggrieved Senator Magnus Abe led his faction of Rivers State All Progressives Congress, APC, to conduct parallel primaries recently, many had branded those who indulged Abe as delusional. 

THE death toll from last Friday Osisioma fuel pipeline explosion has risen to 200, even as protesting youths from the host communities of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporatio

The federal government has defended the country’s position with regards to  foreign borrowing which the International Monetary Fund IMF listed the vulnerability to foreign debt as one of the major threats to economic growth amongst African countries, especially in the sub-Saharan group which includes Nigeria.

THE 2019 governorship contest in 2019 is taking shape and fanning out as the battle of two Abdulrazaqs given the emergence of Hon Abdulrazaq Atunwa as the candidate of the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Parry,PDP, and Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq as the standard bearer of the main opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.

The federal government 2017 budget recorded an 86 per cent implementation, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma, has disclosed.