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Campaigners from fifty countries from around the world meeting in Montreal, Canada to strategise on pushing further the frontiers of transparency in oil, gas, and mining industries, have blamed opacity in oil and mineral licensing for the bad deals natural resource-dependent countries are often saddled with.
Nigeria's poor maintenance culture is public knowledge. So the worry is why it has refused to improve. It shows in every aspect of national life - roads, schools, hospitals and now stadia.
There could not have been a better way for Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development, Alhaji Hassan Lawal and Ondo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, to experience what millions of Nigerians pass through daily than their recent trapping, for hours, in a traffic jam on the Benin-Ore Expressway.
Governor Muhammad Danjuma Goje of Gombe State is not happy with the non-availability of a standard stadium in his domain before the commencement of the just concluded FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Indications emerged, Friday, that it took what could have culminated into a violent riot at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Apapa, Lagos for prison authorities at Maximum Prisons, Kirikiri to formally hand over the popular prison blue-and blue uniform to convicted Chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Board Chairman of Nigerian Ports Authority, Chief Bode George.
How would you like to sit in the comfort of your home and shop in major stores in the UK? Say for example, you sit in your home in Lagos, and shop at Marks and Spencer, Mothercare, TM Lewin or the Apple Store?
Golden Star Resources Ghana Limited announced on Thursday, November 12, this year, that during the third quarter of 2009, it paid US$3,127,398.42 in royalties to the Government of Ghana, out of production from the Bogoso/Prestea and Wassa Mines.
A former Finance Minister in the previous administration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo has lauded the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government's decision to re-introduce the duty tax on importation of rice and other staple foods into the country. He has, however, cautioned the government to support local production to avert possible shortages.
As the CBN approves the harmonisation of the two association in the microfinance sector, the Association of All Microfinance and National Association of Microfinance Banks of Nigeria, the CBN and the umbrella body regulating the activities of microfinance banks in Nigeria is hereby advised to launch deep in bringing sanity in the sector.
Mr. Jack Derickson, Managing Director of West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo) has disclosed that the gas pipeline from Nigeria to Ghana has been completed but there are few difficulties.
Retrieval of state owned vehicles from ex-Ministers and other former government officials in the immediate past New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration became a topical issue in Parliament yesterday, when deputy Minister of Information, Agyenim Boateng appeared in the House on behalf of Zita Okaikoi, the substantive Information Minister, to answer questions pertaining to his Ministry.
Experts in the telecommunication industry in the West African Sub-region have called for policy implementation to regulate and also break the monopoly of cyber optic cables in the hands of few players, whiles intensifying the penetration of broadband access to the sub-region.
MEMBER representing Warri Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Daniel Reyenieju, has expressed utter disgust over what he described as poor implementation of the 2009 federal budget, particularly as it affects the Warri Federal Constituency.
Hope is rising on the possibility of discovering oil and gas in the Benue Trough as experts researching into it say the prospects are high.
The Federal Government is to spend N350million on waste management in Onitsha and its environs, Commissioner for Environment, Dr Mike Egbobike, has said.
As Muslims brace up to observe the feast of Eid -Ul-Adha, commonly known as Tobaski, some private companies in the business sector have been deploying all types of marketing strategies with a view to luring potential customers to buy their products.
The governor of Central River Region (CRR), Alhaji Ganyie Touray, accompanied by a high-powered delegation, on Wednesday, November 18, visited the ongoing construction work of the new Brikama-ba market in the Lower Fulladou District, CRR South.
Eight trainees have successfully passed out of the Institute of Local Government Studies (ILGS) Microsoft IT Academy with certificates in Digital Literacy after undergoing a five-day programme from November 9-13.
'Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in good health, even as thy soul prospereth,' the Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Elvis Afriyie- Ankrah, echoed these Biblical words following a health walk organized by Zenith Bank at the last weekend.
The government has been given thumbs up for its plan to formulate a framework that will guide the oil industry in accordance with the demands of Extractive Industry Transparency Initiatives (EITI) principles.
Compared to non smokers impotence is approximately 85% higher in male smokers and it is a key to erectile dysfunction (ED).
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development ...
A study recently conducted in 24 African countries shows that the poor state of infrastructure in Sub Saharan Africa - its electricity, water, roads, and information and communications technology (ICT) - cuts national economic growth by 2 percentage points every year and reduces business productivity by as much as 40 percent.
"Growth and Stability" The 2010 Budget
First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Hajiya Turai Umaru Yar'Adua has set up a skills acquisition centre at the Maitama General Hospital, Abuja, for the training of special patients in income generating trades by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE).
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