The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has barred married people from participating in its ongoing recruitment process.In the recruitment notice, the Agency specified that applicant must be single.The decision has generated criticism by the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, an affiliate of the Nigeria Labour Congress.Director-General of NECA, Timothy Olawale, who spoke
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The United States Embassy in Nigeria on Friday said claims that it denied the general overseer of Living Faith Bible Church Bishop David Oyedo visa were “manufactured”.“Be advised, the reports making the rounds about a visa being denied to Nigerian Bishop Oyedepo are false,” US Embassy tweeted on Friday.“If you have seen this manufactured
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The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has kick-started a protest march to the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), European Union (EU) embassies in Abuja to deliver its message drawing attention to what it says it is spiralling insecurity as well as injustice in the country.Led by the National Chairman of
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World Health Organization (WHO), on Friday declared the coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern.The WHO had previously declared widespread diseases like Swine flu (2009), Polio (2014), Ebola (2014 and 2018), and Zika (2016), as international public health emergencies. The latest is the coronavirus (2019-nCoV).The WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who made
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Participants and Experts at the Three-Day Diaspora Technical Exchange Programme in United Kingdom have agreed that an increasingly independent global economy requires a deliberate effort to reach out beyond national borders to engage “global citizens and friends”. And that it is possible to imagine a ” global Nigeria”.They also argued
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Minister of Transportation, Rt. Honourable Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi yesterday disclosed that the Federal Government has approved the building of two new seaports in Bonny, Rivers State and Warri in Delta State.He also said government was ready to construct the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri rail line.Amaechi expressed President Muhammadu Buhari’s assurances to reconstruct
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...Impressed by nominee The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions has screened Dr. Kingsley Obiora for the position of Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), urging him to bring his wealth of experience to bear in the task of assisting the Bank achieve its mandate
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Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NiDCOM has advised Nigerians living in China to be wary of CORONAVIRUS as the Nigerian mission in Beijing is in touch with Nigerians in Wuhan.She equally counselled them to keep indoors and take necessary medical precautions as advised.In a statement issued
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Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has called on Nigerian Diaspora Medicals to key into the Diasporan Project Health Initiative (DPHI), to uplift the healthcare system in Nigeria.She stated this while welcoming the team of the Nigerian Nurses Charity Association, UK (NNCAUK), led by Ms. Wendy
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaPresident Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate, seeking for the confirmation of Dr Kingsley Obiorah and Prof. Adeola Akande as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) respectively.Buhari is also requesting Senate’s confirmation for the appointment of Captain Musa Nuhu as
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