Director General ACCI Bags Women Affairs Award of Excellence

In recognition of her selfless and outstanding contributions to Women’s participation in business, governance and decision making, the Honorable Minister, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development (FMWASD), Dame Pauline Tallen has conferred award of excellence on the Director General, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Victoria Akai. The Minister, while giving the…

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Energy Transitioning: ACCI Advocates More Private Sector Investments In Clean Energy

The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry is advocating more private sector investments in cleaner energy sources to enable Nigeria achieve its energy transitioning agenda. The President of the Chamber, Dr Al-Mujtaba Abubakar said this on Tuesday at the opening session of the second World Energy Day (WAD) conference. The conference with the theme, “Energy…

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Nigeria: African Rail Group Chides Labour for Opposing Unbundling of Rail Corporation

A regional railway advocacy group, the African Railway Roundtable has defended the need for the unbundling of Nigerian Railway Corporation, declaring that breaking the corporation into relevant sub-agencies is not the same as privatisation. In a statement by its Director, Olawale Rasheed, the group said the recent statement of the Nigerian Transportation Minister was largely…

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Chad Killings: Human Rights Watch Demands Independent Investigation

Lewis Mudge, Central Africa director for Human Rights Watch, said an investigation is needed to know how the protestors were killed. “It’s clear that an impartial investigation is going to be needed to determine whether according to the prime minister, protestors did resort to violence”, said Mudge. “But more importantly, to determine whether the security…

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UN Rights Chief Deplores Deadly Use of Force against Protestors in Chad

21 October 2022: Human RightsThe UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday appealed for calm and restraint in Chad following a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk has deplored the deadly use of force against demonstrators, including killings by live ammunition, the Office said in a statement.  Thousands took to…

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NAIC Sympathises With Flood Victims

The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) sympathises with flood victims across the country.  The Corporation shares the pains and agony of victims and stand with them at this trying period. Therefore, as a caring and responsive organization, we are using this medium to assure our insured clients that their genuine claims will be given utmost…

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NEPZA Goes Tough on Contractors, Warns on Call-ups of Contract Bonds of Willful Projects’ Delays

The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has vowed to call up contract bonds from contracted companies that decided to willfully prolong execution of assigned projects with the hope of triggering `variation clause’. Prof. Adesoji Adesugba, Managing Director of the Authority, dropped the hint in Abuja after receiving Report of the NEPZA 2017-2021 Capital Projects…

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