The World Bank Board of Directors has approved an education programme, supported by a US$61.5-million grant from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), for the Sudan Basic Education Support Project (BESP). This constitutes the largest education financing project in Sudan, the Bank said in a news dispatch on Wednesday. The project will enable Sudan to sustain and improve basic education for children, with significant support to teachers. It will strengthen schools, community and government capacities to formulate policies and monitor progress at system level. The project will also contribute to Sudan’s progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. “This programme comes…
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International Money transfer company, WorldRemit, has launched its World Remit Entrepreneurs Programme in Africa. WorldRemit said in Nairobi that it has launched the programme in Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. The digital money transfer service company said since the outbreak of COVID-19 across Africa, the continent has experienced a significant setback with the businesses of many entrepreneurs taking a hit. The entrepreneurs control the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) landscape, that have made significant contributions to the growth of the African economies, especially through the creation of jobs. WorldRemit said it is kickstarting the significant investment to support and empower…
International accounting firm, PwC’s Africa Oil and Gas Review 2020 anticipates that the global transition to renewable energy will accelerate rapidly throughout the coming decade. It will cause exponential disruption as well as opportunities in Africa and beyond, the review says. The 10th edition of PwC’s Africa Oil and Gas Review provides updated insights into the African oil and gas industry. It expands the focus to include the unprecedented disruption caused by the coronavirus global pandemic as well as the biggest global theme for this decade: the renewable energy transition. The decade of the 2020s will be recorded in history…
Some eminent Nigerians from on Thursday expressed divergent views over the defection of Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). They spoke in an interview in Abuja on Thursday. Recall that Umahi defected to the APC on Tuesday along with members of his cabinet. The President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nwodo said Governor Umahi’s defection to the APC was an act of exercising his fundamental rights as a politician. The elder statesman, who said it was not in his character to determine for a politician on what platform he or…
The Federal government says 101,567 beneficiaries have benefitted from its Payroll Support Scheme track of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs, Survival Fund, the presidency has said in a statement. The statement signed by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, on Thursday in Abuja, said the Survival Fund was part the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP). The MSMEs Survival Fund scheme is a component of the ESP, which was developed by the Economic Sustainability Committee, chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He said that the implementation of the Payroll…
Dr John Edor, the Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Calabar (UniCal) branch, has debunked rumours that the union has called off its eight months old strike. Edor debunked the rumour in a telephone interview in Calabar on Thursday. He was reacting to a statement on Twitter purportedly credited to the union, calling off the strike. “As I talk to you now, ASUU does not have a Twitter account, so I wonder where that statement came from. As far as I am concerned, it is fake news, ” he said. The chairman, however, said that a…
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Aliyu Ahmed on Wednesday said the three tiers of government shared N604.004 billion as federation allocation for October. Ahmed said this in a statement issued by the Director for Information, Hassan Dodo at the end of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting in Abuja. The permanent secretary said the N604.004 billion shared included cost of collection to Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Department for Petroleum Resources (DPR) and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). He said the Federal Government received N220.751 billion, the States received N161.825 billion, and the Local Government…
President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with former President Goodluck Jonathan on his 63rd birthday, declaring that his was a life of service that had brought honour and goodwill to the country. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, quoted Buhari as noting with appreciation, the peculiar and remarkable climb of the former president on Nigeria’s political ladder. The president also noted with delight Jonathan’s dedication that had kept him working most recently as ECOWAS envoy to bring peace to the Republic of Mali. Buhari prayed that the almighty God would grant Jonathan longer life,…
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has advised members of the public to ignore a fake advertisement claiming that it had begun its 2020/2021 recruitment exercise. In the advert widely circulated on social media, applicants, who must not be more than 35 years, were asked to visit the NAN portal – www.nan.ng – to access the recruitment form and how to apply. It urged the public to access the portal to obtain information on required qualification, stating that applicants must be of good behaviour and be computer literate. The advert cautioned applicants against paying money to anyone, urging them, however,…
By Tina George, Minna The Quarter Guard of the Niger State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has received a befitting facelift and will now be functional. The facelift of the Command was done by the Special Marshals of Unit 3 and 5 in Niger state. According to Niger State Coordinator of the Special Marshals, Deacon Oyeniran Shina, the repairs of the quarter guard gulped N650,000, adding that the project was done to improve the image of the Sector. “As men of timber and calibre, we saw that the quarter guard was not enforcing, that is why…