Day: August 27, 2023

World Bank To Provide Digital ID For 148m Nigerians By 2024

Abibat Babalola

The World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Shubham Chaudhuri, has announced plans to collaborate with the National Identity Management Commission to ensure the successful rollout and registration of digital national IDs for all Nigerians. The ambitious target is to provide at least 148 million people of working age with a digital national ID by the middle of 2024, marking a significant step towards inclusion and accessibility. Chaudhuri stated this at a dinner in partnership with the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy in Abuja on Friday. He further reaffirmed the…

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NCDMB, BOI Ink Amendment of MoU on $50m NOGaPS Manufacturing Fund

ADEOLA YUSUF

. Angola, Namibia to replicate funding model The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Bank of Industry (BoI) have signed an amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the $50million NOGaPS Manufacturing Fund. The Fund was created by the NCDMB and domiciled with BoI to attract oil and gas equipment manufacturers to the Nigerian Oil and Gas Parks Scheme (NOGaPS) facilities established by the NCDMB, and increase access to affordable finance by the manufacturing entities. The signing of the amended MoU took place in Lagos on…

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Popular Nigerian Pastor Commits Suicide

Ganiyu Amodu

Why his corpse was buried in a forest – Kinsmen        A pastor of a Pentecostal Church (name withheld) in Nnewi, Anambra State, identified as Pastor Prosper Igboke, has committed suicide after he jumped down from a two-storey building in Nnewi. Sources in the area said Igboke jumped down from the two-storey building and died instantly after he was jilted by his lover, whom he had spent so much on. READ ALSO: Spanish FA Accuse Hermoso Of Lying Over Kiss At Women’s World Cup Final FIFA Rankings: Super…

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