New yam Festival: Eze Nwachukwu to host Igbo in Lagos, Saturday.

New yam Festival: Eze Nwachukwu to host Igbo in Lagos, Saturday. Eze Ndigbo Lagos State, Eze Uchechukwu Nwachukwu has called on all the Igbo in Lagos to come out en mass for the celebration of the new yam festival in the state which will hold on October 28 2017, at the Igbo Community Centre, Nwachukwu Drive, Okota Lagos. Eze Nwachukwu, who stated this in his palace at Okota said, the occasion would be used to circulate information to Igbo in the state as prominent sons and daughters of Igbo extraction and friends of Ndigbo would grace the occasion. “We are expecting Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu and other Obas. We also want to use the occasion to express appreciation to the sons and daughters of Ndigbo in Lagos who have distinguished themselves because the year is about to end. “We also want to thank the host community for being patient and there for us in the state, and tolerating all of us in Lagos.” He said it is a thing of pleasure for Ndigbo living outside Igbo land to celebrate the new yam festival, reiterating that the occasion is to celebrate the first yam which is the first fruit.

Herdsmen Call For Creation of Alternative Ministry To Promote Livestock Development..

Herdsmen Call For Creation of Alternative Ministry To Promote Livestock Development. Herdsmen on the platform of Confederation of Traditional Stockbreeders Organisations in Africa (CORET), have called on the federal government to create a livestock Ministry, seperate from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) to ensure inclusive growth and development of the sector. This according to them will bring the sector out of the background and allow them benefit from existing programmes. CORET Program Coordinator, Alhassan Jaoji made the call while fielding questions from Journalist at the 10th Re-source Sustainability Academy which held in Abuja, with the theme” Climate Change, Pastoralism Land and Conflicts” The academy was organised by the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in collaboration with CORET,while participants were drawn from herdsmen,farmers, CSOs, Community Leaders, Policy makers and International Organisations among others According to Mallam Jaoji “There is a need for the creation of a livestock Ministry which is the practice in most parts of the world,If they are not seperated,livestock and fish farming will always be subsumed by crop farmers” Herdsmen

37 Job Openings For Young Nigerians In UN – Amina Mohammed.

37 Job Openings For Young Nigerians In UN – Amina Mohammed. There are 37 career openings for young Nigerians under the United Nations bureaucracy, according to UN deputy secretary-general, Amina Mohammed. Mrs. Mohammed disclosed this at a Cultural Night organised by Nigerians working at the United Nations Systems. She said the openings are available via the Junior Professional Officers’ (JPO) Programme, including internship for young graduates. According to her, Nigeria has the opportunity to sponsor its youth for UN careers through the JPO. But Nigeria has not seized the opportunity in a long while, she noted. JPO is a programme for the young people to come and grow their career at the UN and it has 37 positions for Nigeria – one for each of the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory. The JPO programme provides young professionals with hands-on experience in multilateral technical co-operation, and is one of the best ways to gain entry level positions within the UN system. Some Nigerian UN staff at the event..JPOs are sponsored by their own government, which fund their placement in one of a range of UN organisations.At the cultural night, Mrs. Mohammed asked older Nigerians to pave the way for the youth by creating leadership opportunities for them . She urged them to stop competing with the younger ones for employment opportunities.

Elumelu In Africapitalism.

Elumelu In Africapitalism. Few Africans have talked about pan Africanism and made it happen. And one of such people is Tony Elumelu, the self-appointed champion of AFRICAPITALISM -Afrocentric entrepreneurship aimed at stimulating economic growth towards the elimination of poverty in the continent of Africa. T he banker turned entrepreneur through his HEIRS holding-a diversified conglomerate, has in the past three years been leveraging on his philanthropic platform, Tony Elumelu Foundation, TEF to turn the whole African landscape of 54 countries into a sort of investment tapestry, just like a visual artist paints his vision on canvas. His commitment to spend a jaw-dropping sum of $100m in the next 10 years empowering budding entrepreneurs is so strikingly remarkable that skeptics would have thought that it was a mere gimmick. But as it has turned out, Elumelu is not a politician that may be given to hoaxes. Being a businessman who is fighting a cause, as the youths say in street lingo, Elumelu has been putting his money where his mouth is by consistently training and seeding at least 1,000 entrepreneurs from across the continent with $10,000 each which translates into $10m annually in the past three years. Tony Elumelu is replicating the Africanism initiative via the invitation of 1,000 African entrepreneurs to a gathering and commitment of $100m for the development of entrepreneurial spirit and culture .

WHO boss 'rethinking' Mugabe goodwill ambassador post.

WHO boss 'rethinking' Mugabe goodwill ambassador post.The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said he is "rethinking" his decision to name Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador in the face of growing criticism over the move. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the UN health agency, had this week asked Zimbabwe's 93-year-old leader to serve in the role to help tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like heart attacks, strokes and asthma across Africa. The decision triggered confusion and anger among key WHO member states and opposition figures in Zimbabwe who noted that the country's healthcare system, like many of its public services, has been rife with problems under Mugabe's decades-long leadership. Mugabe

Agric financing raises hope of economic recovery.

Agric financing raises hope of economic recovery. The agricultural sector has recorded impressive growth in recent years despite the decline in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) thanks to funding from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through commercial banks, Head of Agriculture Department at the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc Olabode Abikoye has said. He said the sector recorded positive growth of above four per cent last year despite the decline in the oil and non-oil sectors, saying the sector thrived in terms of the GDP due to the government’s economic diversification which brought more funding to the sector at a time contributions from the oil sector have nosedived. “The Nigerian economy is import-dependent with very little non-oil exports. It relies substantially on crude oil and gas exports with other sectors trailing far behind. The economy is, therefore, susceptible to shocks in the oil and gas industry. In recent times, these shocks have been caused by either developments in the international crude oil market or unease in the Niger Delta region. Despite the challenges in the macro environment, businesses are increasing investments in mechanised farming and other activities in the agric value chain, such as processing, storage, packaging, delivery and logistics,” he said. Agriculture

Lagos fights mosquitoes, to inaugurate Community Vector Control Point .

Lagos fights mosquitoes, to inaugurate Community Vector Control Point. An environmentalist, Mr Oluwasegun Benson, on Wednesday said that Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State would officially inaugurate the Community Vector Control Point (CVCP) in Lagos on Thursday, Oct. 26. Benson, who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Phosgard Fumigants Ltd., said this in an interview with newsmen in Lagos. He said that the CVCP project was expected to help provoke a rapid decline in diseases caused by mosquitoes and other vectors in the state. He noted that the diseases were posing a threat to the well-being of the state, adding the CVCP would aid efforts to reduce the incidence of malaria and other vector-borne diseases in the state.