2020

AFRICAN UNION CHAIR PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA APPOINTS SPECIAL ENVOYS TO MOBILISE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC SUPPORT FOR CONTINENTAL FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

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MEDIA STATEMENT TO : ALL MEDIA/NEWS EDITORSDATE: SUNDAY, 12 APRIL 2020 AFRICAN UNION CHAIR PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA APPOINTS SPECIAL ENVOYS TO MOBILISE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC SUPPORT FOR CONTINENTAL FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 The Chairperson of the African Union, President of the Republic of South Africa His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Dr Donald Kaberuka, Mr…

COVID-19: NCDMB Assures Business Continuity

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The management of NCDMB wishes to use this medium to intimate members of the public, particularly Oil and Gas Industry stakeholders that despite the disruptive effect of Coronavirus (COVID 19) in Nigeria and globally, critical operations and services offered by the Board will continue unabated. Although we have scaled down the size and spread our…

COVIC 19: A Time To Stand With The People By Dr. Godwin Maduka

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We welcomed the year 2020 with very high hopes, marching in great strength and zeal. We charted a course to explore the new year. The news on Coronavirus started trickling in December 2019 and we hoped that it would be managed till when it fizzles out. My heart goes out to people in Italy, China,…

Buhari approves withdrawal of $150m from Sovereign Wealth Fund

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The President, Major-General Muhamadu Buhari (retd.), has given approval for the withdrawal of $150m from the Sovereign Wealth Fund for distribution to the three tiers of government. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this on Monday, in Abuja during a media briefing on the fiscal policy measures to tackle…

Treatment of coronavirus ready soon – Iwu

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The drug for the treatment of the dreaded coronavirus will be ready soon if the testing of the vaccine is completed. The assurance was given by the Chairman of the Imo State Taskforce on COVID-19, Prof. Maurice Iwu in Owerri on Wednesday. The professor of Pharmacognosy from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), had presented…

Beware of Facebook Impostors, NDDC Warns

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The Management of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has alerted members of the public to the fraudulent activities of some dubious individuals who impersonate the Commission’s Acting Managing Director, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, in dishonest Facebook Accounts. Two such duplicitous Facebook accounts used to deceive members of the public, promising them jobs and contracts in…

Covid-19: Cross River to release palliative measures

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Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has said that his government will soon list out palliative measures to cushion the effects of the sit at home and lock down of the state directives of the government.Speaking in Calabar, Ayade said, “We are sensitive to the challenges of locking down a state where people have…

Covid-19: NGOs criticise FG’s ‘panic’ lockdown measures

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Two non-governmental organisations have criticised the measures adopted bynthe federal government as part of the lockdown to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.In their statements on Wednesday, Charles Onunaiju of the Centre for China Studies (CCS) and Nnamdi Ahaiwe of Civil Society Observatory for Constitutional and Legal Compliance (CSOCLC) called for the adoption of…

Trucks With Relief Materials Heads For Lagos, Ogun, Abuja

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The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq has said that trucks conveying relief materials have been deployed to states in lockdown in line with presidential directive to ease the sufferings of the vulnerable that might be affected by the order following the outbreak of COVID-19. She said the trucks are…

SOME MILESTONES OF PROF. F.F.O. ORUMWENSE’S ADMINISTRATION

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Prof. F.F.O. Orumwense assumed office as the 9TH substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, by divine providence on November, 30th 2014. May I state here with all modesty, that prior to my appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the University, I have had over two decades of experience in University administration in various capacities, the climax…

DEJI ADEYANJU: JOURNALIST RESPONDS TO ALLEGATIONS AGAINST PETER OBI.

Rights Group Demands Transparent Probe Into Ex-Minister Kabiru Tanimu Turaki’s Alleged Assault On Hadiza Musa Baffa

SECURITY SITUATION IN NIGERIA, FCT IMPROVING…….WIKE.

PDP Zones Presidential ticket to south.

FCTA promotes 49 Deputy Directors out of 915 to Directors

Bishop Extols Ogbuku’s Virtues at Thanksgiving Service

AFRICAN UNION CHAIR PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA APPOINTS SPECIAL ENVOYS TO MOBILISE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC SUPPORT FOR CONTINENTAL FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

COVID-19: NCDMB Assures Business Continuity

COVIC 19: A Time To Stand With The People By Dr. Godwin Maduka

Buhari approves withdrawal of $150m from Sovereign Wealth Fund

Treatment of coronavirus ready soon – Iwu

Beware of Facebook Impostors, NDDC Warns

Covid-19: Cross River to release palliative measures

Covid-19: NGOs criticise FG’s ‘panic’ lockdown measures

Trucks With Relief Materials Heads For Lagos, Ogun, Abuja

SOME MILESTONES OF PROF. F.F.O. ORUMWENSE’S ADMINISTRATION