Under the programme, which took off in 2011, a total of 18,000 young entrepreneurs have been trained in various aspects of Small and Medium Enterprises management and business skills, with 3,900 of them, including 1,200 women, each given non-repayable take-off grants for businesses of their choice ranging from a minimum of N1 million to a maximum of N10 million.
Author: NAN
Muda Yusuf, the Director-General of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the FX Futures Market had doused the tension in the FX sector
The Vice President of the Court, Justice Micah Wright, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that only three out of 15 Member States had put in place mechanism to execute the court’s decision
Experts at the French air accident investigation office will attempt to repair the second black box, which contains sound recordings from the cockpit, on Wednesday, according to the committee.
He said the Fund will within the limit of available resources continue to strengthen the public affairs unit to carry out its assigned responsibilities in addition to developing internal capacity and sharpen the skills of the public relations officers for improved productivity.
The Muslim Rights Concern is deeply perturbed by the silence of civil society on events going on in the state. It is well known that the assertion of civil liberties is a dividend of democracy and the hijab issue is indubitably a civil liberty matter. We therefore find it strange that a vital section that has always been vocal on issues of human rights has chosen to sit on the fence in a matter that has attracted a Tsunami of reactions in the print, electronic and social media
The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), and the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, said the Dangote Refinery, Petrochemicals and Fertilizers Company, reputed to be the biggest in Africa, when completed offered hopes in the quest for diversification of Nigeria’s economy from total dependence on oil to other areas like agriculture and solid minerals
In one of the schools visited by NAN, only 15 out of more than 50 members of staff had reported for duty at about 10am and idling away.
Also, most primary and secondary school students had to return home
Akpofure said: “I am objecting my lord in the first place to the admissibility of document sought to be tendered by the prosecution because it has been labelled by the witness as being computer generated
The D-G, who described the rumours as fabrications, called on the batch “A” stream of the scheme to embrace the NYSC skill acquisition programme.
He said that the skill acquisition programme would enable the corps members become employers of labour rather than searching for non-existing white collar jobs
The UNHCR official said about 15,000 displaced persons had relocated from camps in the North East to Abuja, while some others had moved to the South West for survival
Ghebreab, who told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the number of Nigerians in America was increasing, also said about 30,000 Americans were living in Nigeria
A source at the Federal Medical Center, Owo told Radio Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State that Asaju was on his way to Abuja for a meeting
The management of the company told the team it was ready to defray its tax liabilities, but the FIRS officials said it was not possible because banking hours had elapsed, leaving the FIRS team with no option than to shut its gates.
The court said Ogah, a PDP gubernatorial aspirant in the 2015 election in Abia State, was entitled to the certificate of return in the election held in April 2015
It will also attract significant capital inflows to the Nigerian fixed income and equity markets apart from achieving naira exchange rate stability.
During the launch, the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, said the bank remained steadfast to position the Nigerian foreign exchange market to be competitive, transparent, liquid and diversified.
The Technical manager of the club, Stanley Eguma, who made this known to Rivers United Media, explained that the decision had to be taken in the overall interest of the club
Attendees should inform that they are attending the Global Village Extra Seminar to claim the discount, which will afford them the opportunity to pay $159 per night for a standard single/double occupancy room, while the Salon suit goes for $229 per night
“On June 25, John Paul died in an accident while hiking near Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the State University, where he was studying civic leadership as a 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow
He warned the illegal occupants that it was not going to be business as usual as the state government was determined to make public primary schools more conducive for qualitative education