Day: 10 May 2017

Heritage Bank, Triton Aqua N2bn facility to boost job creation, capacity to 15, 000 tonnes

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The N2billion long-term facility Heritage Bank Plc and Central Bank of Nigeria gave to Triton Aqua Africa Limited (TAAL), under the Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme (CACS), has continued to boost job creation. The Managing Director of Heritage Bank Plc, Ifie Sekibo, who disclosed this at the weekend, led a team of the bank’s senior management on fact-finding mission to the company’s facilities.He said that the fund was disbursed to enable TAAL expand its aquaculture businesses- nursery/hatchery for the production of fingerlings and brood stock in Ikeja; and earthen ponds for catfish…

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Nigerian Breweries FLAGS-OFF 2017 MALTINA TEACHER OF THE YEAR

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Nigerian Breweries Plc has flagged-off the 2017 Maltina Teacher of the Year initiative. In an event attended by key education stakeholders across the country, the Managing Director of the company, Mr Nicolaas Vervelde, represented by the Corporate Affairs Adviser, Mr Kufre Ekanem said that applications for the 2017 Maltina Teacher of the Year opened on Tuesday, May 09, 2017. Interested teachers are advised to download application forms from the Maltina website –www.maltina-nigeria.com. Application forms should be completed and uploaded to the website or sent by email to maltinateacheroftheyear@heineken.com or post…

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Ex- Health Minister, Eyitayo Lambo, Apex Nurse, Shode, others to speak on Interprofessional Collaboration

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Former minister of Health, Professor Eyitayo Lambo is expected to make a keynote presentation at a symposium that will examine ways of fostering collaboration among the various health care professionals. Jointly organized by the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy and the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, the Symposium which will assemble professionals drawn from medicine, pharmacy, nursing, medical laboratory sciences and other health professions, will hold at the University of Lagos on May 11. According to Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, another former health minister and president of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy, collaboration…

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Lagos APC LG Primaries : Crisis looms as Screening Committee Chairman accused of partialty

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The Chairman of the committee, screening councillorship and chairmanship aspirants on the platform of All Progressive Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Prof. Tunde Samuel, is facing criticism from some party members.     Ahead of  the councils primaries of APC in the state tentatively scheduled for Saturday and next Thursday, crisis looms in Agege and Orile-Agege chapters of the party as some stakeholders are alleging that Prof. Samuel, former SA on Education to ex-Lagos governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is colluding with some leaders of the party in the areas to…

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