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Keystone: Promoting Financial Inclusion Through Empowerment Of SMEs In Nigeria

Keystone: Promoting Financial Inclusion Through Empowerment Of SMEs In Nigeria

Globally, access to finance is a critical success factor in the growth and development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Financial inclusion on the other hand is the availability and equality of opportunities to access financial services. It helps ...

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OOF Transforms Lives Through World Diabetes Day Initiative

OOF Transforms Lives Through World Diabetes Day Initiative

The Olusegun Obasanjo Foundation (OOF) has announced the successful conclusion of its World Diabetes Day program, a transformative healthcare initiative that spanned from November 13 to 17, 2023. The groundbreaking event, hosted at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in ...

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Rice Price Skyrockets As Local Production Declines

Rice Price Skyrockets As Local Production Declines

Rice consumption in the country has been on a steady rise, beyond the reach of local supply, leading to a supply gap of about two million metric tonnes annually, a new report has disclosed. This has led to an over ...

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Demand For Cooking Gas Drops Over Price Hike

Demand For Cooking Gas Drops Over Price Hike

Demand for Liquefied Petroleum Gas or cooking gas has fallen despite several interventions by the Federal Government to ramp up supply and boost local consumption, The PUNCH can authoritatively report. Gas retailers told The PUNCH over the weekend that cooking gas demand had ...

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Inflation Jumps 24 Times In 25 Months – Report

Inflation Jumps 24 Times In 25 Months – Report

Inflation rate in Nigeria has increased 24 times in the last 25 months (two years), according to findings by The PUNCH. This is according to an analysis of the Commodity Price Index reports published by the National Bureau of Statistics. The ...

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Israel-Hamas War: UN, Us Condemn School Attack, Deaths Hit 14,000

Israel-Hamas War: UN, Us Condemn School Attack, Deaths Hit 14,000

Gaza’s Hamas government said Sunday that the death toll from fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants in the Palestinian territory had reached 13,000 since the war began on October 7. Hamas gunmen killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and ...

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Service Extension: FG Owes 600 Teachers 23-Month Arrears

Service Extension: FG Owes 600 Teachers 23-Month Arrears

No fewer than 600 teachers in the federal civil service, precisely under the Federal Ministry of Education and the Federal Ministry of Defence, who benefited from the Federal Government service elongation package for teachers, are currently being owed 23 months ...

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Police, Governors Losing Battle Against Cult Violence

Police, Governors Losing Battle Against Cult Violence

…Communities, businesses lament brazen attacks …Menace prevalent in South, fuelled by access to hard drugs Cult-related violence is posing serious security challenges to schools, communities and businesses, leading to the death of many people, including a senior police officer working ...

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Protest Rocks Plateau Over Sack Of Gov Mutfwang By Appeal Court

Protest Rocks Plateau Over Sack Of Gov Mutfwang By Appeal Court

Massive protests have erupted in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Sunday, following the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate, Dr Nentawe Yilwatda, against Governor Caleb Mutfwang of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the Court of ...

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Ebonyi Gov’t Returns Mission Schools To Original Owners

Ebonyi Gov’t Returns Mission Schools To Original Owners

The Ebonyi State Government, on Sunday, said that modalities have been put in place to return all Mission Schools back to their original owners before the end of the year. Governor Francis Nwifuru made the disclosure when the Catholic Bishop ...

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