…Say it’ll have adverse effects on Nigerians  From Toluwa Agboluaje, Ibadan A youth group, Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA) Worldwide, has vehemently kicked against the total ban of nation’s borders. In a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan yesterday by its National President, Olalekan Hammed, the group said the action would have adverse effects on Nigerians. The Federal Government on the occasion of the celebration of the World Food Day yesterday restated that it will not reverse closure of borders until neighbouring countries have shown enough commitment to check smuggling of banned commodities into Nigeria. According to the permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Mohammed Umar,  the closure was also a response to farmers’ call as a …
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Ms Patricia Scotland, Secretary General Commonwealth finance ministers will meet in Washington D.C. on October 17 to discuss coordinated interventions to prevent future debt crises. Finance Minister of Cyprus, Harris Georgiades, will chair the meeting under the theme ‘Preventing Debt Crises: The Roles of Creditors and Debtors’. It will be preceded by sessions for senior finance ministry officials and central bank governors. Ministers will explore policy options and strategies by which debtor countries can work with creditors to prevent the recurrence of debt crises. Debt crises, as witnessed recently in Greece and Argentina, can devastate economic growth, increase poverty and derail global agendas such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement. Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said: “The meeting comes …
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From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja No fewer than 33,348 households in Kogi state are to benefit  from the federal government cash transfer scheme. Mrs Falilat Abdulrazaq, the Head of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Unit in Kogi, who gave the hint said the scheme is geared towards boosting the indigent households under the Federal Government’s CCT  Programme. Abdulrazaq disclosed this at a three-day ”Savings and Group Mobilisation (SGM) Step-down Training”, organised for 76 newly selected Cash Transfer Facilitators (CTFs) from seven out of the 21 LGAs of Kogi State. She said that additional data of 21, 892 new CT beneficiaries had been added to the existing 11, 456 to make a total of 33, 348 beneficiaries across the 21 LGAs of Kogi. ”As …
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By Folashade Akpan Yemi Kale, NBS Boss The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says in the first half of 2019, the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) generated N691.11 billion as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). The NBS said this in its “IGR at State Level for Quarter One and Quarter Two, 2019” report obtained from its website on Friday in Abuja. It said that compared to N596.91 billion recorded in the second half of 2018, there was an increase of N94.2 billion, indicating a positive growth of 15.78 per cent. The report added that 31 states and the FCT recorded growth in Internally Generated  Revenue (IGR), while five states recorded decline in IGR in the period under review …
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