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Again, Financial Times of London Endorses Award-Winning Kwara Community Health Insurance

The Financial Times of London has once again endorsed the award-winning Kwara Community Health Insurance Scheme for its transformational impact on the people of the State, particularly the rural dwellers. In an article titled, “The Innovators: devices and services to improve maternal and child health” published on its website on Thursday, the Financial Times listed Kwara Community Health Insurance among ... Read More »

Gbadamosi!Yoruba has lost an icon Otunba Gani Adams

We received with rude shock, the passing of Chief Rasheed Gbadamsi, erudite industrialist, distinguished politician, intelligent arts collector and Patron/member of the Board of Trustee, Olokun Festival Foundation, Olokun Festival Foundation (OFF) On behalf of the Olokun Festival Foundation (OFF), we commiserate with the family, friends, associates and staff of Chief Gbadamosi, who slept in the Lord on Wednesday evening ... Read More »

LAGOS DENIES DEMOLISHING OTODO GBAME COMMUNITY

LAGOS DENIES DEMOLISHING OTODO GBAME COMMUNITY …Cautions Against Spreading Of Unverified News On Social Media The Lagos State Government on Thursday denied the unsubstantiated claims being circulated in some sections of the media and on social media of its involvement in the fire incident that took place in Otodo Gbame Community in Lekki area of the State last Wednesday. The ... Read More »

LAGOS TO ADOPT BOSTON MODEL TO TACKLE ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES

…State Open To New Innovation, Says Ambode The Lagos State Government on Thursday unveiled plans to adopt the Boston model to clean up the State Waterways and tackle other environmental issues confronting the State. State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode disclosed this shortly after series of meetings with the Mayor of Boston, Marty Walsh and the Executive Director of Massachusetts Water ... Read More »

FG WORKING IN SIX GEO-POLITICAL ZONES, DEVELOPS THREE-YEAR PLAN, FOR REHABILITATION OF ROADS, BRIDGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

  As Fashola reports progress in Works, Power and Housing at his one-year stewardship Priority given to roads that allow farmers, businessman, industries and travellers move their goods, support energy sufficiency and lead to and from the nation’s major sea and airports             In Power: Paying contractors and getting the necessary approvals for them to return ... Read More »

Quill Awards Winner visits Promasidor, Applauds Thomson Foundation Course

The first runner-up in the 2016 Promasidor Quill Awards, Olatunji Ololade, has commended Promasidor Nigeria Limited for the Thomson Foundation Summer Convergence Course, which is part of the overall prize for the annual competition. Ololade, who just returned from Britain after attending the course, gave the commendation during his visit to Olivier Thiry, Managing Director, Promasidor Nigeria in his Isolo, ... Read More »

FG PLEDGES COMMITMENT TO CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS ON POWER SECTOR PRIVATIZATION

, PLANS TO SPEND $150MILLION ON RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROGRAMME 44 tertiary institutions audited to anchor the programme Funds to be deployed on solar, gas Independent Power Plants (IPPs) to power the institutions, rural areas As Power, Works and Housing Minister disagrees with proponents of cancellation of privatization of power sector   The Federal Government has pledged to uphold all contractual ... Read More »

Heritage Bank is not in Distress

The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been drawn to false and malicious stories on the social media insinuating that Heritage Bank is under financial distress and therefore unable to discharge its obligations to its depositors. We wish to state that Heritage Bank is not in distress and as such its depositors should go about their transactions ... Read More »

FASHOLA ADVOCATES LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORMS TO REFLECT CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  Says more attention should be paid to the process leading to emergence of leadership of local governments Calls for a change of the revenue allocation formula to provide for more resources to local governments “The battle to overcome poverty, disease, illiteracy, infant and maternal mortality and many indices of our underdevelopment will be fought, won and lost at the ... Read More »