1.One of Nigeria’s leading banks,
Access Bank Plc has emerged the winner of the 2014 World Finance, UK Magazine ‘Sustainable Bank in Nigeria Award.’
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MainOne has lifted the Ogombo Community Primary School by renovating a block of four classrooms in Okun Mapo Primary School, and providing new school gates and classroom furniture for its students. Since 2011, MainOne has been involved in the Primary Schools in Ogombo, Okun Ajah and Okun Mapo with yearly donations of study materials including school bags, text and exercise books, and renovation of critical infrastructure facilities.
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The prototype of an innovative power-independent clinical device that monitors the heartbeat of a foetus while a woman is in labour has been unveiled in order to address the high rates of preventable neonatal or newborn mortality rates in Nigeria, and the rest of Africa.
4.President Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed that
the Federal Government has expressed its readiness to increase domestic food production by additional 20 million metric tonnes for the populace and create about 3.5 million jobs by 2015.
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The 2014 edition of the annual conference of the Brand Journalists Association of Nigeria (BJAN), will be held in Osun State, the association has said. The state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Hon. Sunday Aker, said the state is always willing to identify with individuals and organisations that could aid its developmental drive for the state.
6.Visitors to the stand of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) at the 9th Abuja International Trade Fair had first-hand experience of
how the airport remodeling project, part of the aviation sector master plan under President Goodluck Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda of the aviation industry, has transformed the Nigerian airports to international standard.
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The Federal Government is set to approve N100 billion to assist states establish mini modern ranches across the country. This is to check the movement of cattle and prevent cattle rearers/farmers clashes. Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam, said cattle rearers moving into the country from the neighbouring countries would soon be registered.
8. A total of
57,550,193 passengers used 22 Nigerian airports between 2010 and 2013, the latest statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics have shown.
9. The Director-General, Federal Budget Office,
Dr. Bright Okogu, recently said Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) received N441billion for its programmes from 2012 to date. He said that although the programme had an annual allocation of N180 billion from the Federation Account, it received N126 billion in 2012, N180 billion in 2013, and N135 in 2014 billion.
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Nigeria’s leading power exhibition dedicated to the burgeoning African power industry will open in Lagos next Tuesday. The exhibition is coming on the heels of the Federal Government’s announcement that the country requires consistent investment in the power sector to ensure her 135,000 megawatts generation capacity is met by 2030.
