Teliat Sule

Nigerians stand to benefit immensely from regular hand hygiene through reduced transmission of diseases and higher productivity, thereby boosting the nation’s health status and standard of living among the comity of nations, experts that gathered at this year’s World Hygiene Day, at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), have said.

…experts say govt needs wider consultation on policies

Stakeholders that attended the recent convening on mobilising climate finance for Nigeria’s low carbon transition organised by the Africa Policy Research Institute (APRI) and the Enzi Ijayo Africa Initiative have advised the Nigerian government to start implementing initiatives that will support realistic and fact-based climate transition programmes for Nigeria if the country is to attract sizable funding for climate transition.

Ijaw Freedom fighters have wreaked havoc on Okomu Oil Palm’s neighbouring community in Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State. The attack resulted in the death of one of the community members with seven vehicles and three houses burnt while other members of the community suffered various degrees of injuries.

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has decried the rate of depreciation of the Nigerian currency, the naira, saying that this development poses great risk to manufacturers and importers in the country.

Inflation in Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, rose on a year-on-year basis for the sixteenth consecutive month in April 2024 to 33.69 percent albeit slowly, in contrast to 33.20 percent in March this year.

The provision of affordable housing in Nigeria is set to receive a strong boost as the much-awaited Nigeria Consumer Credit Scheme nears take-off.

Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO), a leading non-governmental organization, has disbursed N1.4 billion to rural farmers in the first quarter of 2024, aiming to boost rural agriculture and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers across Nigeria.

Bears dominated trading transactions last week on NGX as the market capitalisation of equities as well as the All-Share Index continued on their downward path. The market capitalisation closed last week at N55.507 trillion, amounting to a weekly loss of N54.11 billion when compared to the closing value of May 10, 2024 which was N55.561 billion.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) begins their 295th meeting today at the nation’s capital, Abuja. The notice of the meeting was released last by stating that the two-day meeting will stand on Monday May 20 and end on May 21, 2024.