The oil and gas industry has been strengthened and elevated with simplified vocabulary to promote effective communication aimed at improved business transactions and processes. The bolstered language is contained in a new book, entitled, The Language of Oil & Gas, and it is specifically designed to assist industry players...
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By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has concluded arrangements to commence the implementation of the second phase of its plan, which is christened: ITF Reviewed Vision: Strategies for Mandate Actualization. ITF’s Head of Public Affairs, Mrs. Suleiyol Fred Chagu, who made this known in a...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has charged residents of the Territory to take personal responsibility for their health and desist from violating the extant guidelines put in place to curtail the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the FCT. Minister of the FCT, Malam...
Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has paid glowing tributes to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, on the occasion of her 60th birthday, describing her as a gift to Nigeria. Agba, in a goodwill message on...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), through its Youth in Agribusiness office, is partnering with the Mastercard Foundation in Nigeria to implement the Young Africa Works strategy. The partnership aims to enable 242,724 young Nigerian women and men to build skills and secure...
Paradigm Initiative, a pan-African social enterprise working to advance digital rights and inclusion in Africa, said its deeply concerned about the Tanzanian authorities’ attempts to abolish Public Interest litigation. The group expressed in a statement made available to NATIONAL ACCORD on Tuesday. It said: “Over the course of the last...
THE United Kingdom, UK, All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief has indicted the Nigerian government and the military of aiding killer heard to occupy communities and villages in Benue and Plateau States. The indictment was contained in the report the group released on Monday, June...
The number of people on British company payrolls fell by more than 600,000 in April and May as the coronavirus lockdown hit the labour market, and vacancies plunged by the most on record, official data has shown on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The jobless rate unexpectedly held at 3.9 per...
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) said it has identified fake websites leveraging on the COVID-19 pandemic to defrauding unsuspecting citizens. As a result, the agency has raised the alarm that Nigerians using the cyberspace should be wary of such websites, and on no account fill out their...
…Mosques, churches to operate at 25% capacity By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force announced on Monday that it has relaxed the curfew imposed on the state following the advent of the ravaging coronavirus pandemic. The Task Force, which made the decision public after a...
Nigeria recorded 573 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number of Infections to 16,658. The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) announced this official Twitter handle. It said that as at June 15, Nigeria recorded four deaths while no new state reported any case in the last 24...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos Asiwaju Tinubu, national leader, All Progressives Congress and former Lagos state governor, says he is deeply hurt over the sudden death of Senator Bayo Osinowo, whom he described as a “more than a close friend”, family member, brother and political associate. Tinubu stated in a released...
The Federal Government has inaugurated a National Steering Committee for the restructured Multi-sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (MCRP) currently being implemented in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States. Inaugurating the committee on Monday, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, was reported saying the project would...
Senator Adebayo Sikiru Oshinowo, representing representing Lagos East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, is reported to to be dead. The 64-year old Senator (also known as Pepper), was a staunch member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos state. Born in Ijebu – Ode on November...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi On Sunday 7th June, 2020, while waiting for a friend at a location in Lagos, I sat very close to three friends. They were at that moment involved in a very deep political conversation. I later discovered that the one I considered brightest among them was a...