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Unemployment: NUFBTE president cautions FG over technology influx

Dorothy Ewah

  ***says NLC’ll act appropriately on electricity, fuel price hike The National President of National Union of Food Beverage & Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE), Comrade Lateef Oyelekan, has called on the Federal Government to be wary of modern technology that has the capacity to deepen unemployment in the country. Addressing the media during the week, Oyelekan, also faulted reports of factionalisation in the union. Expressing worries over the power of Artificial Intelligence on employment, he reminded the Federal Government that Nigeria was still a developing country where more people still need…

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Wigwe: Banks should partner states to address power problem

Anya Michael

The Group Managing Director, Access Bank Plc, Mr Herbert Wigwe, has said that banks need to partner state governments to resolve the country’s power issue to achieve sustainable growth and development.   Wigwe said this on Wednesday, at the 13th Annual Banking & Finance Conference of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), at which there was a hybrid of both physical and virtual attendance.   He said that commercial banks should partner state governments to embrace solar power solution in order to resolve the country’s power issues.  …

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Otedola buys his 3 daughters one Ferrari each

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  Otedola buys each 3 daughters 2020 Ferrari Portofino Nigerian billionaire, Femi Otedola, is not just good at blessing and assisting others in dire need of financial assistance. The philanthropist and a former Chairman of Forte Oil PLC is just as good as he is to people outside to his immediate family. A proud father of three girls and one boy, namely; Florence (DJ Cuppy), Temi, Fewa and Tolani, Otedola on Wednesday surprised his girls when he took them out for shopping and gifted them each 2020 Ferrari Portofino. The…

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FirstBank’s CEO, Adetuntan, bags Forbes Best of Africa Award

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Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, has been honoured with the Forbes Best of Africa Award. The award presentation was held on September 11, 2020 at a virtual event by Forbes in conjunction with the Foreign Investment Network (FIN). The online roundtable discussion themed, “Harnessing the financial resources and social capital of philanthropy to making a lasting impact,” was supported by the World Philanthropy Network and featured a keynote address by a former Nigerian President,…

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Four men beat policeman to death in Ogun

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Police in Ogun State have arrested four men for the alleged murder of a policeman, Agada Akoh. Akoh, a police constable, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said was allegedly beaten to death at Dalemo area of Sango- Ota on Sunday. In a statement issued in Abeokuta, the PPRO listed the suspects as Jelili Ismaila (22), Amidu Bankole (34) Elijah Samson (36) and Moses Proboye (34). The suspects, Oyeyemi added, were arrested following information received by the police at Sango Division about 9.30pm that a policeman…

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Covid-19: FG Pleads with health workers to suspend warning strike

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  The Federal Government has appealed to the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) to suspend the one-week warning strike nationwide. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire made the appeal on Monday during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja. “I use this opportunity to appeal to JOHESU to suspend their strike and go into negotiation. “The position of the Ministry of Health is that strikes by healthcare workers jeopardise the lives of citizens, especially at such times of global health emergencies as now. “Nigeria…

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TUC seeks reversal of hike in petrol, electricity tariff***gives 7-day ultimatum

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Trade Union Congress (TUC) has given the Federal Government 7-day ultimatum to reverse the hike in prices of electricity, petrol and all other social services in the country to status quo ante (prior to increase). In a statement signed by Comrade Quadri Olaleye, President of TUC and Comrade (Barr) Musa Lawal Ozigi, Secretary General of TUC, and made available to Borderless News on Monday, the union said the federal government should provide adequate and quality healthcare and education for all (Nigerians) to save the poor and the vulnerable at all…

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Gunmen murder council director in Ekiti

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There was pandemonium on Monday at the Odo Ado Area of Ado-Ekiti, the state capital following the killing of a Director in the Ekiti State Local Government Service Commission, Mr David Jejelowo by some unknown gunmen in the area. According to reports, the incident occurred at the wee hours of Monday at his residence located at Umesi street, Igirigiri Area of Ado-Ekiti metropolis. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti Command, Mr. Sunday Abutu, confirmed the incident. He said the corpse has been evacuated to the morgue of the Ekiti State…

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CACOVID urges halt to COVID-19 community spread

Anya Michael

The organised private sector has said that stopping the community spread of the coronavirus pandemic is the only way to get the nation’s economy back on track and prevent resurgent in the country. The private sector led Coalition Against Covid-19 (CACOVID) said the present situation demanded that all efforts should be geared towards grassroots awareness campaign against community spread across the country if the gains of the past in combating the deadly virus is to be sustained. CACOVID Administrator and Chief Executive Officer of Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF), Mrs. Zouera…

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UBA Business Series to support SMEs, business owners with brand positioning, marketing strategies

Dorothy Ewah

In its continuous bid to support the growth of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and equip them with the necessary tools to strengthen and sustain their businesses, Pan-African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, is set to organise another edition of its quarterly UBA Business Series.   The UBA Business Series is an MSME workshop and a capacity building initiative where leading business leaders share insights on best practices for running successful businesses in the face of huge economic challenges. The outbreak of the COVID-19 presented a…

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