Dayo Emmanuel The National Centre for Women Development has graduated about 300 women from its various vocational skills acquisition programs. The participants, trained on various vocations which include fashion and garment making, hospitality and tourism, interior decoration, hides decoration and catering, are now empowered to augment family income through their newly acquired skills. Acting Director General of the centre, Mallam …

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Dayo Emmanuel While the war on terror comes to an end, the obvious need for reconstruction and rehabilitation are of national concern. Observing these needs, the House of Representatives Thursday, passed a bill for the establishment of North East Development Commission. The Commission, when formed would receive funding from the Federal Government and donation from international donours for resettlement and …

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FRIDAY EKEOBA Barring any monumental change in the domestic economy, the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun,Thursday assured Nigerians that the nation would only face a short recession if the nation’s economy contracts again in the second quarter as the removal of fuel subsidies and policies to lower dependency on oil will pay off. It would be recalled that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) …

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FRIDAY EKEOBA Following the daunting challenges in the domestic economy, WEMA Bank Plc on Thursday posted a 16 per cent rise in its gross earnings unaudited financial result for the six month ended June 30th 2016. According to its filling to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for verification, the bank’s gross earnings rose to N24.3billion in 2016 compared to N20.9 billion …

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FRIDAY EKEOBA The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mr Waziri Adio, said recently that there was no reason for Nigeria to have 110 million people living in poverty. The numbers which constitute 64.7 per cent of the country’s 170 million population, according to the NEITI boss do not have business suffering considering the domestic economy income from …

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Ifako-Ijaiye Federal Constituency of Lagos State, Thursday was thrown into mourning as the news of the demise of a member of the House of Representatives representing the Constituency at the House of Representatives broke. Hon. Elijah Adewale was said to have slumped and died at the early hours of Thursday in his Abuja residence. The deceased was said to have …

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Zenith Bank Plc has been named as Nigeria’s most customer-focused bank by KPMG the leading advisory and consultancy firm. KPMG in its 2016 edition of the annual banking industry Customer Satisfaction Survey recently released, Zenith topped other Nigerian banks in the Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) with a total of 74.6 points to clinch the first position in the retail banking category. By this, the …

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Folake sokoya Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) is a network of 49 civil society organisations spread across Nigeria, and committed to promoting police accountability and respect for human rights. It was established in 2000 to provide opportunity for civil society input to police reform, and the enhancement of safety, security and justice in Nigeria. NOPRIN National Coordinator, Mr. …

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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has announced the replacement of Abdulmumin Jibrin from Kano State as the House Committee Chairman on Appropriations. Announcing the resignation on Wednesday, Dogara said that the Chairman, House Committee on Housing, Rep. Mustapha Bala Dawaki also from Kano State and a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would replace Rep. Jibrin as chairman of the appropriations …

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FRIDAY EKEOBA Lafarge Africa Plc, one of the leadingcement manufacturer in the domestic economy has posted a material loss of N28.0billion in its second quarter financial result for the year end June 2016, even as it attributed the dip to foreign exchange losses that impacted negatively on its operations to the tune of N27.5billion. In a filling to the Nigerian StockExchange on Wednesday for verification, …

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