Africa’s leading technology entrepreneur, Leo Stan Ekeh has charged the Federal Government to leverage technology in reducing to the barest minimum the growing incidences of corporate debts and usher in an era of unprecedented boom and sanity in the Nigerian…
* Lagos: Police barred from operating in mufti (Vanguard) * Save Lagos from coastal erosion, NCF urges FG (Nation)
THISISLAGOS MIDDAY NEWS UPDATE JULY 14, 2018 Lagos: Police barred from operating in mufti (Vanguard) The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Edgal Imohimi, yesterday, warned that “any policeman who carries out operational duties in mufti will…
FG launches national campaign against fake news (Punch)
The Federal Government on Wednesday launched the National Campaign against Fake News, with an assurance that it would not resort to censorship. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at the launch of the campaign in Abuja, described…
FG, Indian coy to install rice mills in ten states (DailyTrust)
The Federal Government has signed a $10.7 billion agreement with MV Agro Engineers Limited to install large rice mills in ten states. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh and his counterpart for State, Heineken Lokpobiri signed the…
FG caution Nigerians against treating malaria without lab test (Nation)
The Federal Government has advised Nigerians against taking malaria treatment before a confirmed laboratory test. Dr Audu Mohammed, the National Coordinator, National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), gave the advice at the second quarter media chat in Abuja. Mohammed, who was…
FG begins HIV/AIDS survey nationwide (SUN)
The Federal Government has launched the Nigeria HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS), which, they believe, will end the era of “guess work” in terms of burden of HIV disease in Nigeria. The survey will be conducted by experts from…
Govt to set up ranches in Oyo, Benue, Kaduna, seven others (Punch)
The Federal Government and states have agreed to set up cattle ranches in 10 states — Adamawa, Benue, Ebonyi, Edo, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Oyo, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara to end herders, farmers’ crisis in the country. The 10 states are in…
Echoes from The Nation Agric, food Summit (Nation)
Besides widening the tax net and eliminating leakages in the revenue accruing to it, the Federal Government is banking on the non-oil sector to diversify the economy. Prior to the introduction of diversification policy by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration,…
FG invites Abiola’s family, Soyinka, Tinubu, Nwosu, activists to investiture (Nation)
The federal government last night rolled out the programme for the conferment of national honours on the late Chief Moshood Abiola, winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, his running mate Ambassador Baba Gana Kinbige and the late…
