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OlabodeAdaramola No fewer than four domestic airline operators are pressing forapprovals from aviation authority to make use of Minna Airport despite thepreference and insistence of the Federal government for the use of KadunaAirport. This request is coming on the heels of challenges beingencountered by airline operators due to the closure of Nnamdi AzikiweInternational Airport, Abuja for repairs of the runway by …

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The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christianpilgrim commission (NCPC), Rev Tor Uja has said that Africa could overcome herlanguage barrier with good language policy. He disclosed this in Abuja during a dinner in hishonour by the Cote d’voire Ambassador to Nigeria, Her Excellency Nee ToureMaman. He stressed the need for the intervention of boththe Nigeria and Cote d’voire government to …

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The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE orExchange) in collaboration with Access Bank Plc will commemorate the 2017Global Money Week themed: ‘Learn. Save. Earn’ with a series of educationalprograms to raise awareness and improve the capabilities of young people tomake sound decisions when it comes to financial matters. The knowledge sharing sessions will hold from March27 to March 31, 2017 across all …

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The World Bank Group President, Mr Jim Kim said the bankwould be investing $57bn to accelerate growth and development In Sub-SaharanAfrican countries over the next three years. In a statement released to Nigerian journalist by theSenior Communications Officer, World Bank Nigeria, Mrs Olufunke Olufon, onMonday in Abuja, Kim said the money would be raised by three subsidiaries ofthe group. According …

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The Federal Governmenthas officially confirmed that it has attained self-sufficiency in theproduction of cement and is now an exporter of the commodity, ascribing thefeat to Dangote Cement which spare headed the backward integration policyintroduced by the government. Minister for Solid Minerals Development, Dr.Kayode Fayemi who leads a team of the federal government to the Dangote Cementplants in Ibese, Ogun State at …

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Senegalese lawmakers, who are divided between a 150-seat NationalAssembly and a 100-seat senate, voted to do away with the Senate, passing alaw, which dissolves the institution in order to save an estimated $15 million. Minister of Justice Aminata Toure explained that the suppressionon Tuesday of the Senate is intended to curb government spending, and wouldprovide the cash needed to help …

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Finance ministers fromworld’s biggest economies have dropped an anti-protectionist commitment afteropposition from the US. G20 ministers left thetwo-day meeting without renewing their long-standing pledge to bolster freetrade. Last year, the groupof the world’s 20 largest economies vowed to “resist all forms ofprotectionism”. But since then,President Donald Trump has taken office, and is aggressively pursuing an“America First” policy. His policies includepenalties …

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Olabode Adaramola The Governing Council of the Federal University of Technology, Minna has approved the appointment of Professor Yahaya Ahmed Iyaka of the Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences as the  Deputy Vice Chancellor, (Administration) designate. The Registrar of the Institution , Mrs. Victoria Kolo, in a letter conveying the appointment disclosed that the Council, approved the appointment  in …

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Chairman House Committee on Rural Development, Honourable Oladipupo Olatunde Adebutu has called for resolution of the current impasse in the National Rural Telephony Programme (NRTP), while acknowledging that current technologies, especially the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), had overtaken events in the sector. He said because of the huge sums of money the government had already spent on the …

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The Bank of Industry has said itsloan exposure to enterprises owned and promoted by women has hit N13bn, notingthat plans are underway to improve access of related businesses todevelopmental financing. It said this in astatement, adding that this was in furtherance of efforts to support thediversification programme of the Federal Government and create employmentthrough empowerment of women entrepreneurs The statement …

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