Nigeria news today headlines update Wednesday 16th October 2019
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Chocolate Makers Face Ethical Branding Dilemma
Ghana and Ivory Coast, the producers of 60% of the world’s cocoa are threatening to stop the cocoa’s industry ethical branding scheme. According to the West African countries, the schemes will be reviewed, because chocolate makers have been slow in paying a “living income” premium for their beans. The halt of the ethical branding scheme
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Italy’s Debt Edges Close To All-Time High Amid Budget Squabble
Italy’s debt rose almost to the highest level on record, adding urgency to the government’s clash over the 2020 budget. The country’s public debt increased to 138% of gross domestic product in the second quarter, according to Bloomberg calculations based on new data released by the Bank of Italy on Tuesday. That’s just under the
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WhatsApp Likely To Officially Roll Out Payments Service Later This Year
Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp is expected to roll out its much-delayed payment service in India by the end of 2019. According to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), for the next two months WhatsApp will be compliant with data localisation norms in India, local media reported on Tuesday. Agreeing to fully meet the
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S. Korea Halts Pharmaceutical Exports To Iran
South Korea has stopped its exports of medicine and related products to Iran, an official from Medical Equipment Department of Iranian ministry of health and education announced on Tuesday. Condemning the nonhumanitarian act of the South Korean government, Gholam Hossein Mehralian said “according to our made investigations, the South Korean government has stopped its exports
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Why TETFUND Sidelines Private Varsities In Funding – Prof Bogoro
ABUJA – Contrary to widely held assumptions that the Federal Government was deliberately starving private tertiary institutions of intervention funds, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) has explained that only six percent of the total student population in Nigeria patronizes such institutions. Besides, this has been supported through research by the intervention agency that 94 percent
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China Calls On Turkey To Stop Military Operations In Syria
China calls on Turkey to halt military operations and return to the right track of seeking political solutions, a foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday. “China always opposes the use of force in international relations, and maintains that all parties should earnestly abide by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter as well as basic
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Fed Polytechnic Damaturu Holds Second Combined Convocation
DAMATURU – The Federal Polytechnic, Damaturu, Yobe State, has presented National and Higher Diplomas to worthy and deserving graduates of the polytechnic at its second combined convocation. At the ceremony, which held at the campus, a total of 6,897 graduates of the institution were presented with certificates. In his address, the Rector, Dr Usman Kallamu, lamented
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NITP Advocates States’ Policy Review On Green Buildings, Smart Infrastructure
To meet the current realities and save the built sector from further challenges as a result of effect of climate change, the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP) has called on all state governments in Nigeria to review their laws and policies on green buildings and smart infrastructure. This is one of the highpoints of
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Kerosene Explosion Renders Widow, Children Homeless In A’Ibom
UYO – A Fire explosion has rendered the widow and children of Late Elder Robert Udo Nnanga of Nkwa Ibiono in Ibiono Ibom local government area, Akwa Ibom State homeless. The fire was said to have been ignited from an explosion from a kerosene lantern at about 7.30pm on Saturday night after a power outage. The
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Help Stop Dwindling Fortunes Of Education, Ukah Tells Alumni Associations
ASABA – Members of the Alumni Associations in Delta State have been called upon to halt the dwindling fortunes of education. The State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, pleaded with them to throw their weight behind the determination of the state government to bring back old values in primary and secondary schools […]
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