The Joint Nigeria International Election Observation Mission of the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute on Tuesday said women now held only 3.8 per cent of seats in the 9th assembly.
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The World Bank has cut its growth forecast for Sub-Saharan Africa for the year to 2.8 per cent from an initial 3.3 per cent, it said on Monday.
Nigeria’s real GDP growth will expand by 2.2 per cent in 2019, the World Bank said in its annual Global Economic Prospects published on Wednesday, slightly upgrading the country’s projected growth rate from 2.1 per cent in June 2018.
Olubunmi Lawal, the National President, National Association of Paediatric Nurses on Saturday said Nigeria ranked third with about 800,000 preterm births annually.
Natassia Badenhorst, Corporate Communications Manager, South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa, Oracle, said on Tuesday that Sordam took over from Cherian Varghese.
Kamwi was speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing 38th Southern African Development Community summit for the Elimination VIII regional initiative.
Apart from ensuring availability of rice in the market, the mill, which is of 32 metric tons per hour production capacity, is projected to facilitate the creation of over 200,000 jobs across the agricultural value chain, while it will also bring about the cultivation of 32,000 hectares of farm land to produce rice paddy, equating to an estimated 130 million kg of processed rice per year (an equivalent of 2.6 million 50kg bags of rice).
Osinbajo spoke at the opening of a two-day High-Level Policy and Private Sector Trade and Investment Facilitation Forum, with the theme, Facilitating Trade and Investment for Development.
Access Bank Plc, One of Africa’s leading Banks, with operations across Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK, has further consolidated its position as a service focused bank in Nigeria by been adjudged the “Best Local Bank in Nigeria 2014” by EMEA Finance Magazine.
A statement by the IOC on Wednesday said Infront had acquired exclusive broadcast rights on free to air television and non-exclusive internet and mobile broadcast rights