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In order to address the outbreak of rabies in Abuja, the Veterinary Services Department of the Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat is embarking on free vaccination exercise for dogs and cats in the FCT. The Director, Veterinary Services Department of the Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat, Dr. (Mrs) Regina Adulugba, disclosed this while addressing Veterinary
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By Tony Obiecina and Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) said it has so far contributed N135bn out of the N220bn it is expected to generate for the 2019 fiscal budget. The Director General of the agency, Mr. Alex Okoh disclosed this at an interactive forum with the
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has said that the commission is working on a framework to regulate the use of crowdfunding by small businesses to raise capital. This was stated by Acting Director General of the SEC, Ms. Mary Uduk in an interview with journalists, on the sidelines of
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By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has opposed plans by MTN to charge their subscribers for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) access to banking services from October, 2019. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, said the bank’s position at a news briefing by the Nigerian delegation to the
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By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has established a tax office, dedicated solely to the administration of taxes for Non-Resident Persons.A statement by FIRS Head, Communication & Servicom Dept, Wahab Gbadamosi said the Executive Chairman, Tunde Fowler has already signed a Public Notice to that effect.The
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Friday, inaugurated its public information centre in Abuja to provide structured access to the bank’s operations in Nigeria and across Africa. The centre is named “Leopold Senghor Public Information Centre of the Nigeria Country Department, African Development Bank’’.Inaugurating the centre, Mr Ebrima Faal,
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Two U.S. astronauts on Friday, carried out the first-ever all-female spacewalk for humankind as they ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS). According to NASA live TV, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir began the spacewalk at about 7:50 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (1250 GMT), tasked with replacing a
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Rice farmers in Borno, on Friday, recounted ordeals as 4,000 hectares of rice farms were submerged as a result of the release of excess water from the Aloa Dam located in the outskirts of Maiduguri, the state capital. Thousands of hectares of rice fields wilted due to
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The Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, Mr Adebo Ogundoyin, on Friday, said that the Open Rearing and Grazing Regulation bill would be passed by the Assembly before the end of October. Ogundoyin (PDP/Ibarapa East) said this at a town hall meeting, organised in Eruwa by the National
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has injected 325.5million dollars in the retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) and CNY14million in the spot and short tenored forwards segment of the inter-bank foreign market. The bank’s Director, Corporate Communications, Mr Isaac Okorafor made this known in a statement
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