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Alhaji Kabiru Rabiu, the Executive Director, Bua Group, business conglomerate, has urged Nigerians to embrace technology to ease monetary transaction and increase financial inclusion for individuals and businesses in the country. Rabiu made the call at the launch of `Hollaport’, a payment and messaging mobile application on Monday in Lagos. He said that financial inclusion was a major issue in the country, with half of the adult population being “unbanked” and only a fraction of the “banked” using technology in their processes. According to a 2018 survey by Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFInA), about 40.1 million or 41.6 per cent of Nigerian adults are financially excluded, and 48.6 per cent are financially included. The survey also said that 58.4 per cent of Nigerians were financially served. According to Rabiu, this survey shows the large amount of people without access to financial services in the country. “Access to financial services by indivi...

  A total of 24 Deputy Controller of Prisons  passed out from prison Academy in Ijebu-Igbo in furtherance of their career progression. Speaking at the passing out ceremony, the Controller General of Nigerian Prisons Service . (NPS) (CG) Alhaji Ja,afaru Ahmed said that human capacity development remains one of the utmost priorities in the prison reform programmes for effective service delivery as a correctional centre. According to him, his administration has identified training, and retraining of personnel as bedrock of good penal practise in the country. "I am delighted to be here this morning to witness the graduation ceremony which marks the end of your course as your service progresses. "Let me quickly remind renind you that this administration identifies training and retatraining as bedrock of good  penal practise. "More than 12,000 staff have gone on various, retatraining and refresher courses within the last three (3) years of my tenure in office,...

Reflex  tears  clear debris, like smoke and dust, from your eyes. Continuous tears  lubricate your eyes and help protect them from infection. Emotional tears  may have many  health benefits . Whereas continuous  tears  contain 98 percent water, emotional  tears  contain stress hormones and other toxins.

Mrs Omolara Adesanya, the Providence People’s Congress (PPC) governorship candidate in Lagos State, says the party will construct a railway line from Apapa to Berger to ease the perennial gridlock in the state, if voted into power in 2019. Adesanya, a Chartered Accountant told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos that if the people of Lagos want integrity and real development commensurate with the state’s resources, the PPC candidates should be their choice in the coming elections. “We are ready and we are working to rescue the people of Lagos State,” said the retired staff of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). “If the people of Lagos want real, positive and progressive change, let them install a government that will keep its words and be fully committed to community development. “’PPC will redirect traffic, especially for tankers and trailers on the roads by constructing a rail line from Apapa Wharf to Berger and we will have a dry port there. “’So, when ...

The war against malaria has been on for long, but still seems far from ending as malaria remains endemic and life-threatening in developing countries including Nigeria. Medical experts blame malaria prevalence on a number of factors including inadequate funds, drug counterfeiting, malaria resistance to drugs, mosquitos’ resistance to insecticides and global warming. Analysts also identified dearth of research into malaria cure, as a major factor. Mr Chukwu Okoronkwo, Head, Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilisation, National Malaria Elimination Programme, Federal Ministry of Health, is worried that although some donor-agencies have strongly supported malaria elimination, Nigeria still has huge gaps. “Quite a lot of donor-partners are supporting malaria elimination in the country but we still have huge gaps, which is why malaria is still endemic in Nigeria. “We are appealing to more donor-agencies to come in; governments should also increase their funding for malaria...