NEPC partners NGO to sensitise Imo youths on non-oil exports
Saby Elemba
October 28, 2022
By Saby Elemba The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has continued its advocacy aimed at enlightening citizens on the various exportable non-oil products. In line with this push, the Council recently held a sensitisation workshop at the Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Secretariat in Imo State, in partnership with NobleGoal Community Development Initiative (NCDI), […]
Imo positions for digital economy with agenda 2022-2026
Saby ElembaOctober 26, 2022
By Saby Elemba The Imo State government has unveiled what it called the Imo Digital Economy Agenda (IDEA) for 2022-2026, anchored on six strategic pillars and aimed at highlighting the plan of the government to ensure the digitalisation of Imo State economy. The Imo Digitalisation Economy Agenda, entails having the entire communities in Imo […]
Unizik, NCF partner on environmental protection through tree planting
Godfrey OfurumOctober 21, 2022
Godfrey Ofurum …target 10,000 economic trees The management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, is partnering with the Nigeria Conservation Foundation (NCF) to plant no fewer than 10,000 trees within the institution in a bid to preserve (and discourage illegal human activities against) the environment. The two institutions held a tree-planting exercise on Tuesday in […]
Ikpeazu woos Igbos to divest in South-East region
Godfrey OfurumOctober 21, 2022
By Godfrey Ofurum …says proposed EEC project will create 600,000 jobs Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has urged Igbo entrepreneurs in diaspora to divest some of their investments into the South-East region of Nigeria in order to create jobs and improve the economy of the region. Ikpeazu made the appeal at his country home […]
How Imo transport commissioner restored sanity on Owerri Municipal roads – aide
Saby ElembaOctober 20, 2022
The activities of touts who mount illegal motor parks and traders who abandon their shops for street trading on roads in Owerri Municipal, Imo State, have for long frustrated business activities, motorists, and other road users. The menace had continued on Douglas, Wetheral, Tetlow, Okigwe, and Mbaise roads, among others, despite the efforts of […]
Abia to complete review of Child’s Right Law this month
Godfrey OfurumOctober 17, 2022
By Godfrey Ofurum, in Aba …as rights advocates decry increase in baby factories The government of Abia State is in the process of reviewing the state’s Child’s Right Law of 2006 in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including the state House of Assembly. Innocent Akomas, state coordinator for Child Protection Network and senior special assistant to […]
PDP guber candidate pledges to transform Kano’s ailing industrial sector
Adeola AjakaiyeOctober 11, 2022
By Adeola Ajakaiye, in Kano Governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State, Sadiq Mohammed Wali, has said he would leverage his robust private sector background to reinvent the ailing economy of the state if elected governor. Wali said this while unveiling his party’s electioneering plans for the state to […]
Agric firm declares readiness to partner South-East states on food security
Saby ElembaOctober 11, 2022
By Saby Elemba, in Owerri An agriculture firm, JLN Agric Implementation Services Limited, has declared its readiness to partner with the five states of Nigeria’s South-East region in order to achieve the global standard of food security as stipulated by the World Bank. In this regard, the firm is finalising plans to visit […]
Abia set to start disbursement of NG-Cares stimulus package to beneficiaries
Godfrey OfurumOctober 11, 2022
By Godfrey Ofurum The Abia State government, through the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises and New Business Development, has announced plans to start disbursement of NG-Cares stimulus package on Result Area 3 to beneficiaries. NG-Cares, Nigeria’s COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus programme, is an initiative of the federal government, supported by the […]
Edo seeks stakeholders’ support on domestication of National Health Act
Rosemary IwualaOctober 7, 2022
By Rosemary Iwuala The Edo State government has said the domestication of the National Health Act (NHAct), which is a part of the state’s health reforms, will provide legal support for the many initiatives being introduced to develop the health–care delivery system in the state. Obehi Akoria, the state’s commissioner for health, stated this while addressing participants at a workshop for […]