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NECA Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW), has called for the implementation of policies that empower women to establish female-owned firms The NECA Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW), has called for the implementation of policies that empower women to establish female-owned firms especially in the Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SMEs) sector, for economic growth of the country. Chairperson, Lagos Chapter of NNEW, Mrs. Eunice Obasohan, who spoke during the organisation’s network meeting in Lagos, stressed that government should mitigate issues of multiple of taxes, improve the ease of doing business environment, and provide low interest loans to start businesses. She decried the high interest rate by banks in Nigeria, which discourages business financing through loans rather she said small-business grants should be made available to women as a viable source of financing for women-owned businesses. According to her, SMEs play an important role in creating jobs, and

A nine-year-old boy was kicked out of a jewellery shop after trying to hold it up with a replica gun. CCTV footage from the store in Argentina showed the boy walking up to the counter before pulling out the fake pistol from his trousers. The incident happened in the city of Moreno, in the eastern Argentinian Province of Buenos Aires, on February 16. Jewellery shop owner Nicolás García remained calm as he approached the boy and dragged him out of the shop without incident. “The kid told me to give him everything, to not be a moron because he will ‘burn’ me,” Mr García told La Nacion . “I thought it was a toy gun, I could not imagine that he was talking to me seriously.” He grabbed the boy and walked him out of the shop. The boy’s 28-year-old mother, who identifies herself only as Daniela, recognised him from the security camera footage and confirmed the gun was a replica. The mother-of-six said her son was expelled from school last year for dropping his trousers at a cla

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA in Zamfara State, Alhaji Sani Shinkafi has ejected all internally displaced persons taking shelter in his houses in Shinkafi, for voting APC in Saturday’s elections. He confirmed the report on Wednesday and according to him: “I have asked all the IDPs residing in my houses to immediately pack out because they are not serious in life. These are people who had to leave their villages due to insecurity caused by a government that could not provide such basic necessity to them, yet they went and sold their votes at the last elections trying to bring back the same gang.” According to him, in spite of his earlier advice to them “to vote out those who failed them in the past years”, they still voted them in. Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/02/governorship-candidate-ejects-idps.html

By Henry Umoru With the conduct of last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections and the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the next stage of battle would be who becomes number three citizen of the country. Senate In the next couple of weeks and months, the nation would be saturated with stories and permutations as to who emerges the President of the Senate of the 9th National Assembly come June 8th, 2019. Following the results released by INEC after the National Assembly election, the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC has the highest number of both new and old senators, with a total number of sixty-four Senators. The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has a total of forty Senators, the Young Progressive Party, YPP has one Senator, bringing that to a total of one hundred and five Senators, with four yet to be declared in Imo, Taraba and Plateau States. In determining who becomes the Presiding office

smartphones About 17 per cent of Nigerian adults are without smartphones. A study conducted by Pew Research Centre, based in Washington D.C., USA, which disclosed this, however said 39 per cent owned a smartphone, while 44 per cent use ordinary mobile phone. Nigeria, according to Woldometer is a country with 200 million populations.   Pew Research Centre noted that smartphone ownership can vary widely by country, even across advanced economies. While around nine-in-ten or more South Koreans, Israelis, and Dutch people own smartphones, ownership rates are closer to six-in-ten in other developed nations like Poland, Russia, and Greece.   According to the study, in emerging economies, too, smartphone ownership rates vary substantially, from highs of 60 per cent in South Africa and Brazil to just around four-in-ten in Indonesia, Kenya and Nigeria. Among the countries surveyed, ownership is lowest in India, where only 24 per cent report having a smartphone. The Pew study ob

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in last Saturday’s election, Atiku Abubakar, has given many reasons, why he has decided to contest president Muhammadu Buhari’s victory. In the result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Buhari, polled 15,191,847, while the former vice president scored 11,262,978 votes. At a press conference, by the PDP presidential candidate on Wednesday, he described the last Saturday’s election as a “grand theft,” while he gave ‘facts’ on how the election was rigged in PDP strongholds. Read full address below Dear citizens of Nigeria, Let me start by thanking you for choosing democracy as the settled system of government for our great nation. Democracy is a government of the people by the people, only when the people’s choice prevails. That did not happen on Saturday, February 23, 2019. On Election Day, we saw the implementation of grand theft of the people’s will. I am not one for hyperbole so

Everything you need to live well Warner Bros. has set December 16, 2022, as the release date for its “Aquaman” sequel and American writer, David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick will write the script. “Aquaman 2” will be produced by “Aquaman” director James Wan and Peter Safran. “Aquaman” has over-performed – currently the 20th-highest worldwide grosser of all time. Johnson-McGoldrick teamed with Will Beall on the “Aquaman” script, from a story by Beall, Geoff Johns, and Wan. Johnson-McGoldrick began working on the screenplay three years ago after reading “Aquaman” comic books while on the set of Wan’s “The Conjuring 2.” The superhero film stars Jason Momoa as the title character, with Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Nicole Kidman in supporting roles. Warner Bros. also announced three weeks ago that it was developing “The Trench,” a horror movie spinoff to “Aquaman.” Wan and Safran will produce “The Trench”. “Aquaman 2” i