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The move is part of efforts to complement Federal Government’s effort in achieving its malaria pre-elimination goals by 2020, tagged ‘Malaria-To-Zero’ initiative. The donation, according to the company, is an innovative financing platform that seeks to galvanize private sector resources and capabilities for sustained support towards averting at least 1 million malaria cases and deaths in Nigeria. The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe, said the platform would integrate existing and new initiatives on eradicating malaria, and thus build synergies that produce impact far greater…

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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, weekend, took exception to statements credited to the state governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, describing his utterances as inciting, provocative and dangerous ahead of the Rivers State federal and constituency elections. INEC, in a statement, urged stakeholders and actors in the Rivers political space to desist from making statements capable of derailing the process. INEC and the governor have, in recent times, been at each other’s neck with the governor accusing the electoral body of conniving with All Progressives Congress, APC, to  rig the elections…

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On Saturday evening, no fewer than three persons lost their lives, when a tipper lorry ran into an evening market near 33 Junction, leaving 13 more with injuries. Confirming the incident, the Police Area Commander for Onitsha, Mr. Abubakar Yahaya, said only three persons died in the accident, while some people were injured and taken to hospitals around the area. He said they are on top of the situation to avert break down of law and order. The accident happened when some vigilante operatives from a housing estate at Tobis…

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For having neglected to obey the order of the court made on Friday the 26th of February, 2016, requiring them to provide SERAP with up to date information on the spending of recovered stolen funds since the return of democracy in 1999, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has commenced committal to prison hearings against the Federal Government, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, and Alhaji Ahmed Idris Accountant-General of the Federation. The information ordered to be released by Justice Muhammed Idris of the…

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The Federal Government has said that Emir of Kanu, Lamido Sanusi was not in possession of any fact about the Central Consolidated Account domiciled in Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and so, could not have spoken with precision on the over drawing made by government from the account. It also said that $30 billion loan which the government was seeking senate approval for was for the building of massive social infrastructure. It will be recalled Sanusi had at a function in Abuja on Friday asked the federal government to drop…

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Cheif Ndika Eya, the former Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndogbo, alongside Leaders of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, are among Igbo people who have rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that those agitating for Biafra should perish the idea because it would not be a reality, saying  Buhari was day-dreaming. IPOB, in a statement  by its  spokesman, Emma Powerful, said that Buhari and the people around him are far from the reality about what is happening now and what is about to happen in Nigeria concerning the restoration of Biafra. According to IPOB,…

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Mrs. Farida Waziri, a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has warned the defeated 2015 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Adamawa State, Mr Nuhu Ribadu, to stop using her name “anytime he needs public attention or sympathy”. A statement by her Personal Assistant, Ms Omolara Oluremi, yesterday, quoted Waziri as describing as reckless and irresponsible a statement credited to Ribadu at a function last Wednesday in Abuja, “where he, has been his rhetoric since 2008 when I succeeded him as the EFCC…

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The US president-elect Donald Trump has named Nigerian-born  Adebayo Ogunlesi, who is the chairman of Global Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm and one of Fortune 500 companies, a member of an economic advisory forum. The 63 year-old Nigerian is the only African face in the  16-man team, which  has  Steve Schwarzman, CEO of  private-equity giant Blackstone as chairman. “President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that he is establishing the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum,”. “The Forum, which is composed of some of America’s most highly respected and successful business leaders, will…

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