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Shettima inaugurates Intergovernmental Carbon Market Activation Plan Committee
-As FG moves to tap from $2.5 billion market Vice President Kashim Shettima on Thursday inaugurated the Intergovernmental Committee on Carbon Market Activation Plan in the bid to create a blueprint to drive an efficient sustainable carbon market ecosystem. This is in fulfillment of the promise made by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reduce Nigeria’s carbon footprint as well as…
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EFCC arrests 48 suspected Internet fraudsters, herbalist in Lokoja
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has arrested forty-eight suspected internet fraudsters and a herbalist for offences bordering on conspiracy and obtaining under false pretence in Lokoja, Kogi State. They were arrested upon credible intelligence on Tuesday, March 5, at various locations in Lokoja, The herbalist, believed to be a…
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Tinubu suspends indefinitely MD, EDs Rural Electrification Agency, appoints interim management
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended indefinitely from office the Managing Director/CEO of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, and the three Executive Directors (EDs) of the Agency. The suspended EDs are Olaniyi Alaba Netufo, Executive Director, Corporate Services; Barka Sajou Executive Director, Technical Services, and Sa’adatu Balgore, Executive Director, Rural Electrification Fund (REF). Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, announced on…
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Awo and the truth about Baba Layinka, by Dare Babarinsa
Were Chief Obafemi Awolowo to be alive, he would have turned 106 yesterday, March 6, 2024. Thirty-seven years after his death, Awolowo’s thoughts remain a dominant element of the Nigerian political landscape. Many members of the political class, who may not have read a paragraph of Awo’s writings, love to wear the fez cap that became a symbol of Awolowo’s…
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Gov. AbdulRazaq in the race to sparkle economic opportunities through KW-SAPZ Programme, by Sangodare Ayinla
“In the next two years when our Agro-Processing Zones are launched, you will see that Kwara will be the leading state in dairy production and milk production as well” Above were His Excellency’s re-assuring words when he was responding to a reporter’s questions in Cairo-Egypt some months ago during the “Intra-African Trade Fares 2023” to reiterate his government’s resolve to…
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FG trains farmers, herders on cattle ranching, others
The Federal Government through the National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW), has rolled out a capacity building and training programme on Pilot Cattle Ranching, Fodder farming and Orchard Plantation to foster peaceful coexistence between farmers and herders. The Director General, National Agency for the Great Green Wall, Dr. Yusuf Maina Bukar, said the training with the theme: Cattle…
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Environment Minister charges architects on environmentally-friendly building designs
The Minister of Environment, Mallam Balarabe Abbas Lawal, has charged Nigerian architects to be conscious of the health and safety of the environment when designing buildings. The Minister made this call on Wednesday when he received a team from the Nigerian Institute of Architects led by Arc. Mobolaji A. Adeniyi. They were in the Environment Ministry to discuss areas of…
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No to false bill on Local Government Autonomy, by Adewale Adeoye
I have read about the bill seeking autonomy for 774 Local Governments in Nigeria. This is a bill that seeks to castrate Nigerian indigenous people and tie the fate of their political economy to the Abuja hegemon. We must think critically, and employ symbolic logic to understand the immediate danger this bill represents. We must kill it. The day this…
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He’s a change-maker, Tinubu celebrates Awo Leadership Prize winner, AfDB’s Adesina
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated the President of the African Development Bank, (AfDB), Dr Akinwunmi Adeṣina, for clinching the 2023 Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership, describing the former Nigerian Minister of Agriculture as a “maverick change-maker who has not only flown Nigeria’s flag all over the world but has dazzled the world with the novelty of his thoughts, indispensability…
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Gov AbdulRazaq commissions Diabetes Centre in Offa, urges more collaboration
Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday inaugurated a Diabetes Screening and Treatment Center donated by the Lions International District 404 B2 Nigeria for Offa community and its environs, calling for more partnerships with the administration for improved living standards of the people. Commissioning the facility, located inside General Hospital in Offa, the Governor said the donation…
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