NEPZA’s special security outfit to enhance investment security | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has described its newly inaugurated Special Economic Zone Security (SEZSEC) outfit as the best move to further attract investments to the free zone areas. It is also expected to create a safe and secure environment for the zones’ employees, facilities, contracted service providers, members of the public, the special economic zones and NEPZA resources. The Guardian gathered that the outfit was borne out of the need to further strengthen existing security architecture and provide adequate security to lives and properties in the free zones. In his remarks, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo, said the decision to create the body was apt in order to secure and keep the special economic zones (SEZ) safe and give confidence to investors. Ali, who was represented by Catherine Ekekezie, Deputy Comptroller-General in-charge of Excise, Free Trade Zones and Industrial Incentives Department, cautioned the personnel against going on a “one-man patrol” to avoid running into trouble.
Source:The Guardian
June 21, 2022 02:29 UTC
Milk firm to inaugurate dairy farm in Ogun
Makers of frozen dairy and ice cream brands, Fan Milk, is set to unveil their newly completed model dairy farm in Odeda, Ogun State. A statement made available to The PUNCH on Monday revealed that the farm will be inaugurated to boost local production of milk in Nigeria. The statement party read, “The dairy farm is Danone’s first investment in dairy farming in Sub-Saharan Africa to boost local milk production in Nigeria. Hence, the partnership with the Ogun State will harness the social and economic potentials of participating in local dairy production. He added that the company also intended to commission a dairy training institute and a milk collection centre to train local dairy farmers and reduce the importation of milk in Nigeria.
Source:Punch
June 20, 2022 23:57 UTC
BREAKING: Ex-minister Orubebe resigns from PDP, gives reasons
A former Minister of Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party. He made this known in a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the party,lyorchia Ayu, on Monday. In a copy of his resignation letter obtained by our correspondent, the former minister expressed dismay over the emergence of a northerner, Atiku Abubakar, as the party’s presidential candidate. Part of the letter read, “I write to formally inform you of my resignation from the PDP. “Consequently, I am by this letter intimating you of my total withdrawal from all activities at the Ward, Local, State, and National levels of the PDP.
Source:Punch
June 20, 2022 23:42 UTC
'Eight dead' as Nigerian churches attacked
Gunmen have killed eight people and kidnapped 38 others in an attack on two churches in the northern state of Kaduna, an official from the Christian Association of Nigeria says, weeks after a similar deadly attack in the southwest.
Source:The Guardian
June 20, 2022 18:39 UTC
EU adds West African jihadists to sanctions blacklist | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
The European Union on Monday added three Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist commanders in West Africa to its terrorist sanctions blacklist for attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso. The new asset freezes and visa bans target Sidan Ag-Hitta and Salem ould Breihmatt, senior commanders within the UN-listed Al-Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimin (JNIM) in Mali, as well as its Burkinabe branch Ansarul Islam and its leader Jafar Dicko. “The sanctioned group and individuals are responsible for several terrorist attacks, including against civilians, the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali and defence and security forces in Burkina Faso,” the EU said. “Their activities contribute to the expansion of the terrorist threat in Western Africa and therefore pose a serious and continued threat to the EU and to regional and international stability.”The move takes to 13 people and four groups the number of targets now on the EU’s blacklist against Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
Source:The Guardian
June 20, 2022 14:39 UTC
Passengers Stranded As Fuel Scarcity Hits Lagos
Many passengers were stranded at various bus stops in Lagos State, Monday morning, as commercial vehicles were scarce on the road. The scarcity of vehicles was attributed to the fuel scarcity, which was gradually building up in some parts of Lagos. Our correspondent saw that many people were stranded at major bus stops along Ogba-Berger road, such as Aguda, college road, among others. Commercial drivers interviewed by our correspondent confirmed that the development was due to the fuel scarcity, particularly the Premium Motor Spirit. The PUNCH reported that the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, had recently been caught up in some fuel scarcity, with vehicles seen queuing up for fuel since May.
Source:Punch
June 20, 2022 11:47 UTC
Witnesses accuse rebels of killing hundreds in Ethiopia | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
“I lost my 16-year-old daughter in the attack shot by a bullet from the (OLA) gunmen,” one Amhara man said, adding that the rebels had blocked the main highway. “The Abiy regime is again blaming the OLA for atrocities committed by its own retreating fighters,” he said on Twitter. The EHRC, a state-affiliated independent rights body, said in a statement that security forces had carried out “door-to-door executions” in Gambella, which borders Oromia. The OLA last year forged an alliance with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which has been locked in conflict with federal forces in northern Ethiopia since November 2020. Ethiopia’s government declared a “humanitarian truce” in March, allowing limited supplies of international aid into Tigray for the first time since mid-December.
Source:The Guardian
June 20, 2022 11:38 UTC
Amnesty trains additional 450 ex-agitators
The Presidential Amnesty Programme says additional 450 ex-agitators have been deployed to facilities in the Niger Delta to learn the business of oil spill response, cleanup and remediation. The programme, it said, was in line with the novel Train, Employ and Mentor scheme introduced by its Interim Administrator, Col. Milland Dikio (retd). Dikio, stated this while addressing the ex-agitators after the second batch of Basic Orientation Course organised for the former agitators in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Related News Amnesty office closes scholarship application portal“I want to urge you to take the training seriously. He didn’t achieve it in one day, it took him years but he was focused and determined to succeed”.
Source:Punch
June 20, 2022 09:17 UTC
Group seeks conservation of biodiversity, animal species
A non-Governmental organisation, the Coalition for Biodiversity Conservationists of Nigeria (CBCN), has called for concerted efforts to save the world’s fast-depleting biodiversity. The unintentional transport of plants and animals to new regions is threatening the world’s ecosystems’ biodiversity, structure and function. The threats posed to biodiversity by invasive species are considered second only to habitat loss. Mwansat, who spoke on ‘Escalating Anthropogens on Biodiversity Conservation: Past, present, and future’ said human activities are eroding biodiversity, adding that some species are extinct already, and up to one million other species are threatened with extinction. Others are Dr Clement Ebin, Chairman, CBCN Board of Trustees and Prof. Ahmad Sanda of Usmanu Dan Fodio University, Sokoto state.
Source:The Guardian
June 20, 2022 09:10 UTC
Ikarama paradox
There are communities in the Niger Delta that would compete to have the dubious notoriety of being the oil spill capital of the world due to the regularity of oil spill incidents they experience. Ikarama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State is one such community. Naidoo went on to reference the ecocide in Ikarama in his excellent book, Change: Organising Tomorrow Today. And that is why I am returning to Ikarama today, eight years after. He was at a field monitoring visit and community environmental monitoring training at Ikarama, Bayelsa Stare, Nigeria on 16 June 2022.
Source:The Guardian
June 20, 2022 08:50 UTC
PoS operations boom in urban neighbourhoods amid rising challenges
According to the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System, PoS operations recorded an 86 per cent increase of N1.5tn in the first quarter of 2022 when compared to the 45 per cent increase of N958.19bn in January 2021. PoS in urban areasInitially, the CBN established mobile banking and PoS systems to drive its cashless policy. As a matter of fact, some of these PoS operators could be said to be operating mini-banks in their own right. Contributions PoS riseMany factors have contributed to the success of the PoS payment system, especially in urban areas. Oladapo explained that even the charges by the PoS operators had not deterred customers from patronising them due to the obvious ease that they offered.
Source:Punch
June 20, 2022 08:33 UTC
Profit-taking takes up activities at NGX
Equities trading at the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), last week, as equities investors took off profits from their investments. Analysis of performance at the local bourse indicated that 13 equities appreciated in price during the week, lower than 29 equities in the previous week. 51 equities depreciated in price higher than 36 equities in the previous week, while 92 equities remained unchanged higher than 91 equities recorded in the previous week. The Conglomerates Industry followed with 89.87 million shares worth N246.06 million in 764 deals, while the Consumer Goods Industry, stood in third place with a turnover of 54.23 million shares worth N1.23 billion in 2,923 deals. Top 10 Business Ideas In Nigeria You Can Start With 100,000 NairaProfit-taking takes up activities at NGXHow We Carried Out The 1993 Nigerian Airways Hijack —OgunderuProfit-taking takes up activities at NGX
Source:Nigerian Tribune
June 20, 2022 07:15 UTC
Nigeria’s disappearing forests – in pictures
Egbontoluwa Marigi paddles his logs out of the flooded forest floor on to the river in Ipare. ‘During the time of our forefathers, we had big trees but sadly what we have now are just small trees and we don’t even allow them to mature before we cut them,’ he says
Source:The Guardian
June 20, 2022 06:01 UTC
People are tired of Lawan, let him go and rest –Machina, Yobe politician
Since then I have been an active politician till today; I was a political adviser to the then Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. I later became the pioneer National Auditor of Action Congress and also served as Deputy National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party. How did you emerge as the senatorial candidate of the Yobe North senatorial district of the APC? Who do you think Tinubu as President would have preferred to be in the Senate between you and Lawan? How can he allow his name to be submitted to INEC when he knew that he didn’t participate in the senatorial primary?
Source:Punch
June 20, 2022 04:11 UTC
Emi l’okan entitlement bogey as metaphor
This Emi l’okan singsong will appear to fall flat in the face of the popular desire to re-affirm the culture of the people undeniably anchored on cherished values. Tinubu has conveniently substituted igbo l’okan for a personal self-seeking Emi ‘lokan bogey. Perhaps we must all begin to cultivate a sense of entitlement regarding issues or policies that are incidents of our citizenship. An Emi l’okan bogey has appeared on the horizon threatening an orderly panoply and frightening men of moderate means out of the way or out of contention. Igbo l’okan as a deep-seated conviction for order and fairness has been cavalierly substituted for Emi l’okan without compunction.
Source:The Guardian
June 20, 2022 03:18 UTC