Trade experts on Wednesday validated Nigeria’s implementation strategies for success under the Africa Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA). They spoke in Lagos at the final validation roundtable by stakeholders before presentation to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval. In his comments, Mr Francis Anatogu, a former Secretary, National Action Committee on AfCFTA, said the validation of Nigeria’s strategic choices on how to win under the AfCFTA was critical. According to Anatogu, Nigeria’s strategies had outlined deliberate choices based on its market’s location, the country’s strengths and areas of preparedness for Nigerian businesses to trade in…
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By Abdulsalam Mahmud He sat calmly on his mother’s lap, fiddling with three of his tiny fingers. One can say that he is as fit as fiddle, judging from his tender skin, and very healthy look. Known as Moammadu, the seven-month-old is unaware of the ‘enclosed’ world his mother is living in, as a civilian turned inmate. Aisha Ibrahim, mother of the little Moammadu, may not have shown any visible sign of worry, but she definitely would have gotten tired of her ‘new-found’ home. She is one of the females detained at the Giwa Barracks in Old GRA, Borno State.…
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has ordered the immediate reinstatement of Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia as a judge of the Federal High Court (FHC). This was made known in a circular issued by the Chief Judge of FHC, Justice John Tsoho, on Dec. 5 notifying judges of the court about the development. The NJC took the decision on December 1 during a meeting it held. Justice Tsoho’s circular reads: “Your lordships are, by this circular letter, notified that at the meeting of the National Judicial Council held on the 1st of December, 2022, the council reinstated Justice R. N. Ofili-Ajumogobia as…
The Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun 1 Area Command, says it has seized goods worth N4.88 billion between February and December 6 in the state. The Area Comptroller, Bamidele Makinde, made this known during a press conference in Idiroko, Ogun, on Wednesday. Makinde said that the command, during the period under review, recorded a total of 842 seizures, which included 44,933 bags of smuggled foreign parboiled rice of 50kg each, equivalent of 73 trailer loads. He listed some of the items seized to include 736 sacks of second-hand clothing, 3,629 pieces of used tyres, 4,700 bags of cement, 3 bales and…
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has concluded plans to disburse N4.2 million loan to 42 unemployed youths in Adamawa to boosting agriculture production in the state. Abubakar Fikpo, the NDE Director-General made this known at the orientation course for beneficiaries of agricultural empowerment scheme in Yola on Wednesday. Fikpo, represented by Ibrahim Jimada, NDE Coordinator in Adamawa said that each beneficiary would access N100,000 as start-up capital. He said that the beneficiaries were trained under the Department of Rural Empowerment scheme (REP) on sustainable agricultural development. “They were trained on Agricultural Enhancement Scheme, Sustainable Agricultural Development Scheme, Community-Based Agricultural…
The National Museum, Lagos, has been selected as a beneficiary of the Bank of America Arts Conservation Project 2022 grant of US$40,000 to restore and preserve the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes. Mr Abba Tijani, Director-general, National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Tijani said that the inimitable Igbo-Ukwu bronzes in the Lagos Museum were among the 19 major global art conservation projects selected, with fund from the grant to restore 350 Igbo-Ukwu bronze objects. Tijani said that the Bank of America Arts Conservation grant was the first fund to be received for the…
The federal government in collaboration with the Saudi Arabian Relief Centre on Tuesday donated relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and flood victims in Borno. Presenting the items to Borno government in Maiduguri, Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Habib lauded the sustain interventions being made through the Agency. “Today; we are handing over relief items donated by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, and also items donated by the Presidential Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation (Dangote Committee). “The relief items are meant to support Nigerians affected by both insurgency as well as those impacted…
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has announced its Dec. issuance of two Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) Savings Bonds at N1,000 per unit. According to a statement by the DMO, the first offer is a two-year FGN Savings Bond due in December 14, 2022, at an interest rate of 12.255 per cent per annum. The second one is a three-year FGN Savings Bond due in December 14, 2025 at 13.255 per cent interest rate per annum. It said that the opening date for the bonds issuance is December 5, closing date is December 9, settlement date, December 14 while coupon…
“The SuperDarn, as we have heard, is a network of High Frequency (HF) radars that look into Earth’s upper atmosphere. The radars operate round the clock and they observe the motion of charged particles (plasma) in the ionosphere and other effects that provide scientists with information on Earth’s space environment” By Chijioke Okoronkwo Over the years, space weather hazards, high frequency signals in ocean going vessels and aircraft, global broadcast communications and short wave radio communication have been subjects of continuous monitoring and advanced research. Worldwide, only few countries have Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) sites for such atmospheric…
By Abujah Rachael Ms Julian Yohanna, 23 year-old of Bazango Community, Kubwa in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, said she knew she was living with HIV when it was almost nine months into her pregnancy. Yohanna said during one her visits for antenatal, the doctor on duty inquired about her sexual history. Her pregnancy was fallout of rape. She was serially raped by her abductors on her way back to the FCT from Kaduna. However, what she didn’t know is that her rapists not only impregnated her but also infected her with HIV. “As was preparing to give birth,…