TECHNOLOGY

FG approves 13 year roadmap for Science and Technology

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2017

Minister of Science and Technology,Ogbonnaya Onu gave indications that government has approved a 13 year roadmap for the science and technology sector. The roadmap would span through 2017-2030 and it is expected to address lapses already being experienced in the technical sector over the years.

BUSINESS

FG Set to Exploit $7bn Cashew Industry:

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2017

Federal Government has decided to exploit the cashew nut industry valued at over $7billion dollars. This is besides the yam export programme expected to be flagged off today to the United Kingdom. Minister of Agriculture,Audu Ogbeh said talks are on with Walmart, the largest supermarket chain in the United States where the Nigeria could take […]

LEAD STORY 2

FG Acquires Abuja Metro Plaza As Headquarters For Hajj Commission

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2017

The Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Acting President,Yemi Osinbajo rose from its sitting on Wednesday with a resolution to acquire the popular Metro Plaza building in Abuja to serve as permanent headquarters of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON. The move came just few days after the Eid-el-Fitr celebrations marked by muslims […]

EDUCATION

NANS rejects fee increase by universities

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2017

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) will resist plans by some tertiary institutions to increase tuition fees, its President, Mr Chinonso Obasi has said. Obasi, in a statement he issued on Wednesday in Abuja, said that NANS had received the report that no fewer than 38 tertiary institutions had concluded plans to jack up […]

BUSINESS

SEC extends deadline for e-dividend registration to Dec. 31, 2017

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2017

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has extended the deadline for  stoppage of issuance of physical dividend warrants in the nation’s capital market to Dec. 31, 2017. Mr Naif Abdussalam, SEC Head, Corporate Communications disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria  (NAN) on Wednesday  in Lagos. Abdussalam said that the deadline was […]

TOP STORIES

Former Taraba Governor, Suntai, is dead

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2017

Former Gov. Danbaba Suntai of Taraba, who was  involved in a plane crash in October 2012 has died in Houston, Florida, in the United States on Wednesday. Mr Emmanuel Bello, Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Darius Ishaku on Public Affairs confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone on Wednesday. NAN […]