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No fewer than 3,000 critical stakeholders in the mining sector, drawn from the 36 states will converge on Ado- Ekiti, Ekiti State Capital on this week as the third edition of the National Council on Mining and Mineral Resources Development (NCMMRD) takes place between Wednesday and Friday. The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc Olamilekan Adegbite and the Minister of State for Mines and Steel, Dr Uchechukwu Ogah will be leading state commissioners and Permanent Secretaries in charge of mining and mineral resources ministries from the 36 states to the meeting. Others include participants from the academia, private sector…
Mr John Adeleke, the Executive Chairman, Oyo State Internal Revenue Service (OYSIRS), on Monday said the state monthly revenue had increased to N2.7 billion from N1.3 billion. Adeleke, who made this known at a briefing organised by a group, known as ‘Friends of Seyi Makinde’ in Ibadan said OYSIRS would continue to build on the progress recorded. “We intend to keep on this trajectory, we are going to follow the steady trajectory growth until within our first year in office we are able to double Oyo state IGR from where we met it. “We have to rise up to the…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in London signed the amended Deep Offshore Act. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Monday. It is an Act to, among other things, give effect to certain fiscal incentives given to the oil and gas companies operating in the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin areas under production sharing contracts between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation or other companies holding oil prospecting licenses or oil mining leases and various petroleum exploration and production companies. Buhari said: “Today is an important day for…
The Federal Government says it will link one million farmers to its Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) across the country. Mrs Abimbola Adesanmi, National Programme Manager of the programme, disclosed this at the National Level Exchange and Experience Sharing Meeting of HGSFP in collaboration with Action for Aid International in Minna on Monday. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that participants at the meeting were drawn from Kaduna, Benue, Bauchi, Ogun, Anambra and Akwa Ibom states. NAN also reports that the participants were expected to learn and share experiences from the implementation of HGSFP in Niger. The meeting is…
Oba Ajibade Gbadegedi Ogunoye of Owo kingdom, in Ondo, has described the National Youth Service Corps Scheme (NYSC) as the panacea for disunity in the country. The newly-crowned monarch stated this when he hosted the Ondo State NYSC Coordinator, Mrs Grace Akpabio, and her management team in his palace on Monday. He said that the establishment of the scheme had eroded the primordial knowledge and beliefs which made one ethnic group to suspect the other. According to Ogunoye, NYSC over the years has encouraged social and cultural integration, which is now the reason suspicion has given way to mutual trust…
By Amosu Adeboye Watford midfielder Tom Dele-Bashiru believes that the Olympic Eagles have the quality to successfully defend their title at the Africa U-23 Cup of Nations in Egypt. Imama Amapakabo’s charges will begin the defence of the title they won four years ago in Senegal against Cote d’l voire at the Al Salaam Stadium, Cairo on Saturday. The West Africans will also face South Africa and Zambia in Group B of the competition. The competition will hold from 8th to 22nd November, 2019. “The team is very good. I believe we can go all the way in the competition…
By Amosu Adeboye Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets will face the Netherlands in the Round of 16 at the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil on Tuesday. The Golden Eaglets finished as Group B winners and will now face the Europeans who qualified from Group D as one of the four best third-placed teams. The encounter will hold at the Estadio Olimpico, Goiania where the Eaglets played their opening two games in the competition against Hungary and Ecuador. Manu Garba’s charges lost 2-1 to Australia in their final Group B game last Friday. The winner of the contest will take on either…
The Federal Government is poised to strengthen its partnership with the Guild of Medical Directors and other stakeholders to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the country. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this in a statement signed by Mrs Enefaa Bob-Manuel, Head of Media and Public Relations in the Federal Ministry of Health, on Monday in Abuja. According to the statement, Ehanire said this at the 25th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the National Guild of Medical Directors. Dr Ehanire was represented by Dr Sani Gwazo, a Director in the Minister’s office, at the conference…
“Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools.”― Richard Steele I do not like the present administration. I have never hidden my disdain for the manner in which the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has piloted the affairs of our motherland, in respect to how state security apparatus under his watch are being used to harass journalists for carrying out their constitutional duties, intimidating political opponents as well as the nosedive of the economy. If in times…
Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption crusader and a presidential candidate in the country’s 2019 election, Omoyele Sowore, who is being detained by state authorities on trumped-up charges, may not regain freedom soon, because he happens to be a paragon of virtue who truly personifies the famous quotation: “I belong to nobody.” It is clear this uncommon patriotism has not been put into consideration by the principal actors in Sowore’s ongoing prosecution, particularly the presiding judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu. Recall that Justice Ojukwu, while reducing one of Sowore’s bail conditions from N100 million to N50 million, had wondered why a Nigerian of his pedigree…