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Nigerian Launches Crowdfunding Campaign To Help Reuben Abati

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In apparent attempt to mock Reuben Abati, a man, Ettu Mohammed, on Sunday opened a fundraising campaign on Gofundme.com on his behalf.

The man asked Nigerians to “please save Reuben Abati from EFCC.”

He said the former presidential spokesperson was influenced by “Aso Rock evil spirits” to collect N50 million from former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

Mr. Abati, former spokesperson to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, was arrested by EFCC operatives on Monday over allegations he illicitly received N50 million from the former NSA.

Although Mr. Abati was offered administrative bail that requires presenting a senior federal civil servant – preferably a director – with landed properties in Abuja, EFCC sources said he had been unable to meet the bail conditions.

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World Bank Launches Massive Solar Energy Programme In Nigeria

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The International Finance Corporation, IFC, a member of the World Bank group in collaboration with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is facilitating a massive solar energy programme, targeting Small and Medium Scale businesses across the country.

Under the initiative, the Financial Institution with the DFID would deploy off-grid and embedded solar systems in commercial and industrial sectors in Nigeria.

Providing insight into the project, country manager IFC, Eme Essien Lore, at a media briefing in Lagos, yesterday, said a number of financial institutions in Nigeria would be given incentives to provide finances for the programme.

She said studies would be conducted to fully understand the challenges that had stalled similar initiative in the past.

Lore stated that IFC is leading an initiative, creating and facilitating solutions to help increase access to energy at the home and corporate levels in Nigeria.

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#ChangeBeginsWithMe: Buhari Launches Fight Against Reckless Behaviour

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Today, President Muhammadu Buhari is asking for people to change the way they behave. The president launched the campaign in the capital, Abuja.

 In a speech he said:

It is safe to say today that honesty, hard work and godliness have given way to all kinds of manifestations of lawlessness and degeneration in our national life.”

The government is using #ChangeBegiunsWithMe on Twitter to get its message out. Read tweets below:

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UK Launches 24-hour Visa Service In Nigeria

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The UK has launched the Super Priority Visa Service in Nigeria to allow prospective visitors to Britain to process their applications within 24 hours.

The British High Commission, on its website, said the new service was targeted at meeting the needs of those who require urgent service to travel.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the High Commission quoted the British High Commissioner, Mr. Paul Arkwright, as welcoming the introduction of the Super Priority Visa service in Nigeria.

“I am pleased to see the Super Priority Visa service being launched in Nigeria.

“This comes with an additional cost but is designed to give greater flexibility to our customers and underlines our strong commitment to make improvements to the visa services we offer.

“We expect this new service to be particularly useful for business. We understand that business opportunities and urgent requirements can arise at very short notice.

“We recognise this and want to facilitate such travel to the UK with this new super-fast service,” Arkwright said.

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Aisha Buhari Launches Book On Essentials Of Beauty Therapy

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The Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has launched her first book on “Essentials of Beauty Therapy’’ to enhance the health and wellbeing of human body.

Mrs Buhari made the public presentation of the book on Thursday in Abuja at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

She described the book as the outcome of many years of research after series of courses she undertook in order to acquire the necessary knowledge to specialize in those areas.

“My natural passion for beauty and fashion developed the unique interest to work, teach and mentor young ones on beauty and fashion.

“In my over 10 years in beauty industry, l have trained, mentored and empowered hundreds of young Nigerians in different areas such as facial, skin and body care,’’ she said.

Aisha said that she had served as member of the technical team that developed the curriculum on beauty therapy.

She said the curriculum development was aimed at building the capacity of young school drop outs for empowerment and self-reliance programmes in vocational institutions.

She expressed hope that the book as a training manual would be part of the curriculum of the new National Board for Technical Education, Vocational Enterprise Institute and National Institute Diploma on Cosmetology in beauty therapy in Nigeria.

Aisha said that her decision to present the book was to contribute through her personal efforts to support the victims of insurgents particularly women and children.

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FG Launches N10 Billion Youth Entrepreneurship Support Project

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The Muhammadu Buhari administration, through the Bank of Industry, on Thursday formally launched a N10 billion Youths Entrepreneurship Support (YES) project to empower youth with loans to start businesses.

Speaking at the launch of the project in Abuja, the Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, said his ministry would partner all agencies of government to create new jobs.

He said more than 40 per cent of Nigerian graduates had no jobs and that an average of eight million Nigerians entered the job market annually.

The minister said that the ‘YES’ project of BoI was part of the Federal Government’s youth employment scheme, saying that about 36,000 jobs would be created annually through ‘YES’.

He appealed to prospective beneficiaries to repay the loans for the success and sustenance of the project.

Waheed Olagunju, the acting Managing Director of BoI, said that a participant under the scheme could access up to N10 million loan with single digit interest rate and repayable over three to five years.

He said that an applicant must present NYSC or higher education certificate as collateral to qualify for the loan with two external guarantors.


 

Mr. Olagunju said that the bank was partnering 11 consultants across the country for the first phase of the project.

Afolabi Imokhuede, a Special Assistant to the Vice President, said job creation was at the heart of the current administration.

He said that government intended to create 3.5 million jobs in the next three years, adding that the ‘YES’ project was one of the programmes.

Mr. Imokhuede advised participants to take the ‘YES’ seriously as online courses were now popular means of job creation world wide.

Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor ok Kaduna State, said that the state was partnering with BoI on job creation.

He said that the state had been able to take controlling shares in Peugeot Automobile Nigeria with the assistance of BoI.

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El-Rufai Launches Free School Feeding Programme

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Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai on Monday launched the much awaited free  school feeding programme for pupils of primary schools.

Governor El-Rufai, who tested the food himself at the Aliyu Makama Road Primary School, Barnawa, said the state government would be providing a meal for 1.5m pupils across all the primary schools in the state.

He noted that the school feeding was to ensure that every child had nine years of free, decent basic education, no matter the income level of their parents.

The governor thanked Vice-President’s office for providing technical support and the commitment to reimburse the Kaduna State Government up to 60 per cent of the cost of the school feeding programme.

According to him, the school feeding programme is directly creating 17, 000 jobs for catering vendors, each of whom will need to employ workers to help them deliver food to the pupils.

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Finance Minister Launches Cost Cutting Programme

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The Minister of Finance in Nigeria, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has inaugurated a government spending control team called ‘The Efficiency Unit’ (E-Unit).

Mrs Adeosun on Monday launched the programme to monitor and cut recurrent expenditure across Federal government ministries.

She said the Director at the Debt Management Office, Mrs Patricia Oniha, would be the leader of the unit.

The Efficiency Unit will also assist the government in identifying opportunities to reduce wasteful spending by public office holders, she said.

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Buhari Launches CBN Rice Farmers Loan Scheme

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Nigeria has launched an Anchor Borrowers Programme for rice and wheat farmers to advance their status from small holder farmers to commercial or large growers.

At the launch of the programme in Kebbi State on Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed optimism that the CBN Anchor Borrowers Programme had a potential of creating millions of jobs and lifting thousands of small holder farmers out of poverty.

Under the programme, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is setting aside 40 billion Naira out the 220 billion Naira Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund to be given to farmers at single digit interest rate of maximum nine per cent per annum.

President Buhari told the gathering of farmers and some Governors of rice and wheat producing states in Nigeria that the Federal Government would favour the programme because it squarely aligned with the government’s aspiration to achieve food security for Nigeria.

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FCT Police Launches Massive Attacks On Criminals, Parades 34 Suspects

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The efforts to close up security gaps in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) received a boost on Monday when the Police Command paraded 34 suspects for allegedly operating various criminal syndicates in Abuja and its environs.

Parading the suspects at the FCT Police Command headquarters, the Commissioner of Police (CP) Wilson Inalegwu said the “tremendous achievement in combating crime” in the capital city has been successful in the last couple of weeks due to the proactive intelligence gathering and strategic deployment of personnel, coupled with information received from the public.

He said the command leadership met with estate developers who were advised to besides giving police timely information on identified criminals, their hideout, also take time to secure their domicile by erecting perimeter fences around their estates.

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Boko Haram Launches Fresh Attack On Yobe Town

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Suspected Boko haram members on Wednesday attacked Bara, the headquarters of Gulani Local Government Area of Yobe state.

A resident, Mustafa Bukar who escaped with his wounded brother to Bajoga town in Gombe state told our correspondent that the assailants stormed the town around 11pm.

He said the gunmen numbering about 300 set ablaze half of the town and shot anyone at sight.

Bukar said some police in the area where attacked but could not ascertain if any of them got killed.

Telecommunication masts had been destroyed in the area by the insurgents in the past which hindered the incident coming to public knowledge late.

Bara is among the two local councils in the state previously under Boko Haram control but later liberated by the military recently.

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Osinbajo Launches Northeast Intervention Programme

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Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo yesterday declared open an intervention programme, the North-East Humanitarian Multi-Stakeholder Engagement (NEHMSE) for the victims of Boko Haram insurgency in the region.

The stakeholders include the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Presidential Initiative for the North-East (PINE), the Victim Support Fund (VSF), and the Save Schools Initiative (SSI).

Osinbajo, while speaking at the meeting in Maiduguri yesterday, said one of the goals of the initiative is to strengthen the capacity of existing Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) especially in the North-east region, and to aid the development of others where noticeable and important gaps exist as they must invest in the CSOs community in order to succeed.

“Later in the course of this engagement, perhaps the Presidential Initiative for the North-East (PINE) will unveil its plan to develop the capacity of NGOs in this region and grow new ones where needed.

“This region has suffered tremendously in the past six years. The destruction of infrastructure, farmland, businesses and trades; the destruction of schools, the lost of school-years; rebuilding, restoring and rehabilitation would cost money and time. But neither money or time can fix the trauma of lost of family, relations and friends; the shame and pain of the rape, the scarce and fears or pains of the abducted and kidnapped,” Osinbajo said.

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FG Launches Mobile Schools For Displaced Boko Haram Victims

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School-age children of Internally Displaced Persons in some parts of the North-East affected by the insurgency are back in school as the Federal Government launched Mobile Containerized schools last week in Maiduguri, Borno State.

The 50-foot container is a mobile classroom, which efficiently contains 35 students and is fully equipped with basic educational materials and furnishing including solar panels for electricity powering lights and fans.

The mobile classes are complete with chairs and tables, blackboard/whiteboard, a projector and a metal storage cabinet.

Speaking at the launch held on Tuesday at the Dalori Internally Displaced Camp in the Borno State capital, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo recalled that the project was one of the many things that will come the way of the North-East following his visit to Borno State in July at the instance of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“The launch of this containerized schools is a major step and a sheer demonstration that we are working towards-building the infrastructure in the North-East as we need to secure the future of our children”, the Vice President remarked in a message delivered on his behalf by his aide, Mariam Masha.

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Falae’s Family Offers Kidnappers N2m As OPC Launches Manhunt

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Abductors of the former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, and the family have begun negotiations on the ransom demanded for the release of the septuagenarian who was kidnapped on his farm on Monday.

While the kidnappers reduced the ransom from N100 million to N90 million, the family said it was able to raise N2 million for his release.

But the abductors were said to have rejected the amount offered by the family.

A family source said the abductors called the family late on Monday night and insisted that the family should raise N90 million if they could not afford the N100 million demanded.

“At the time they called us on Monday night, they said they would only reduce the ransom to N90 million but we cannot afford that, so we begged them to accept N2 million and they rejected it.

“They said they would call us back today (Tuesday) but as at this moment, they have not called,” the source stated.

Similarly, the founder of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has called for the immediate release of his birthday mate, Chief Falae.

Born on September 21 like Falae, a visibly agitated Fasehun, who became an octogenarian, said in Lagos yesterday that he had ordered OPC operatives to immediately launch a manhunt, combing all nooks and crannies of Ondo State and beyond for the kidnapped politician.

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Khloe Kardashian Launches Official App

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The Kardashian sisters are no strangers to social media.

But hey, Khloe Kardashian has stretched it a little bit. She has launched her own official app.

Just in case you are equally lost, you’ll have to download the app to know what it’s all about. Here is a video clip she posted on Instagram about the app:

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