CRASoN set to host 2nd National Cooperative Awards, calls for adequate recognition by the gov’t to boost Cooperative activities in Nigeria
CRASoN Executives at the Press briefing: R-L: Akande Olayinka, Director of Finance; Muhammed Bello, Chairman, College of Juror; Victor Oyegoke, CEO/President; Victoria Akpan, Director of Administration/Secretary and Idowu Oluremi,…
Exercise Swift Response: Border closure remains till January 2020 – FG
President Muhammadu Buhari The Federal Government has extended the duration of the ongoing ‘Exercise Swift Response’ across the nation’s borders till next year. President Muhammadu Buhari approved the extension…
Women in Africa need to claim the entire continent as their marketplace
Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) Conference, Expo and Awards celebrates five-year anniversary in 2019 with the theme ‘Enhancing Impact: Digitalisation, Investment and Intra-African Trade’ The Africa…
China’s proposed digital currency more about policing than progress
Chinese central bank chief Yi Gang As China prepares to become the first country to launch a digitised domestic currency, market participants and experts say it is a testament to…
Border closure: CBN will do everything possible to promote local products, says Emefiele
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele has vowed that the apex bank would not allow the country to be used as a dumping…
Employment: At NCC we give preference to physically challenged persons – Danbatta
Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Monday said that the organisation would give preference to the physically challenged in employments. Danbatta made the…
Tramadol seizures in West Africa jumps ten-fold in three years – Report
Seizures of Tramadol drug increased ten-fold from 17 tonnes in 2014 to 170 tonnes in 2017 in West Africa, according to West African Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (WENDU) Report…
AfDB approves record capital boost of 125% to $208 billion to meet funding needs
AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina The African Development Bank’s board approved a 125 per cent capital increase to $208 billion on Thursday, the largest in the lender’s history, AfDB President…
LASG, U.S gov’t collaborate to treat 60,000 HIV patients
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu The Lagos State Government says it is collaborating with the U.S. Government on the treatment of additional 60,000 People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in the state….
I would like Brazil to join OPEC -President Bolsonaro
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that he wants his country to join OPEC, a move that would add the most significant new…