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Month: March 2017

ACCA reaffirms commitment to producing professional accountants

Amaka  Obiefuna The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has reaffirmed its readiness to ensuring professional accountants of high ethical standard. Olatunji Adeleye, the acting Country Director of ACCAA, while speaking with our correspondent at the sideline of the organizations maiden event said “that one of the things that the ACCA pride in is ethics […]

Sprite/Fanta crisis—Health Stakeholders set record straight..

Winifred Bosa. Arising from the recent court judgement on the case filed by Fijabi Holdings and another versus Nigeria Bottling Company and NAFDAC (joined as a nominal party), the Hon. Minister of Health summoned a meeting of the Department of Food and Drug Services, Federal Ministry of Health, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration […]

Naira appreciates to N455 against dollar

Amaka Obiefuna. The Naira on Thursday consolidated its gains against the dollar at the parallel market. The Nigerian currency gained two points to exchange at N455 to a dollar, from N457 it posted on Wednesday, while the Pound Sterling and the Euro traded at N550 and N480, respectively. At the Bureau De Change window, the […]

IMF: Nigeria’s economy has recorded growth, to recover soon

Amaka Obiefuna. The World Bank has said that Nigeria will soon recover from its economic recession. Eme Essien-Lore, the Country Manager in Nigeria, International Finance Corporation, stated this in Lagos on Thursday. ”In our perspective and with the numbers that we have seen coming from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Nigeria’s […]

NBC says benzoic acid in Fanta , Sprite not poisonous

Winifred Bosa To those who may have doubted the Nigerian Bottling Company NBC Ltd health claims on their product, Fanta and Sprite  given the recent  court  judgement, directing NAFDAC to mandate NBC to include a warning on the bottles that its contents cannot be taken with Vitamin C as same become poisonous, NBC has  appealed […]

Abuja airport: Helicopters can now use airport –Hadi Sirik

Fidelia Okafor. The Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika says Helicopters are now free to fly in and out of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja (NAIA). Sirika made this known while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Wednesday. The National Security Adviser, Babagana Munguno, on Monday announced the ban […]

Gov. Ambode seeks N60b to renovate Lagos public schools

Winifred Bosa. Lagos state, south west Nigeria, will require about N60bn to give public schools a befitting facelift. The proposed amount will also be used to set up new schools especially in the riverine areas of the state. The Lagos state Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, who made the statement during an interview with journalists, said […]

Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control to get legal backing

Winifred Bosa. The Nigerian government has commenced the processing of a legal framework for the establishment of the National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole made this known to journalists, while briefing them after Wednesday’s meeting of the Federal Executive Council, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister said […]

Full text of the DSS letter that nailed Magu

Read the full DSS letter below: RE: NOMINATION OF MR IBRAHIM MAGU MUSTAPHA AS EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION (EFCC) SECURITY REPORT OF THE NOMINEE Your letter NASS/CS /SA/01/17/ 08 /02 dated 7th March 2017 requesting for security report on the above named nominee refers The security report being requested for on […]

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