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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Kingsley Adegboye MANAGING Director and Chief Executive Officer, Propertygate Development and Investment PLC, Mr Adetokunbo Ajayi, has proposed measures to enable real estate developers in African continent raise funds internally rather than over-depending on foreign investors to execute their housing projects. Besides, Ajayi who addressed experts at the meeting of the African Chapter’s first Global Real Estate Institute GRI, Club in London recently with the theme “Trends Shifting in Real Estate Capital Flows in Sub- Sahara Africa, advocated the use of Real Estates Investment Trusts (REITS) as a potent window for enhanced financing of real estate investment. Ajayi explained that rather than depend solely on foreign investors for funds, real estate operators in the African continent should explore funding opportunities in an array of financial outlets such as pension funds, insurance companies and the capital market by leveraging REITs. “Instead of playe...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Gabriel Olawale A  Chief Consultant in Family Medicine, Dr. Mamsallah Faal-Omisore has called for more proactive measures to control the rising incident of high blood pressure in Nigeria even as she identified race and sedentary lifestyle as the major causes. Speaking during a two-day health awareness programme organised by Dennis Ashley Wellness Clinic, Faal-Omisore  said officially, 1 in 3 Nigerian adults above 45 has hypertension but presently there is a surge in the number approaching 1 in 2. “Forty per cent of people above the age of 45 have high blood pressure, but by the time you are considering people within 70 years and above, 80 percent of them have hypertension.” She explained reasons responsible for the rise:  “Every race has its own peculiarity, high blood pressure is common in the black race because as some  get older they tend to present with it. “Also our lifestyle has really changed a lot, before we had more of active l...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Gabriel Olawale T owards accelerated efforts to prevent malaria and save millions of lives under the Malaria To Zero Initiative programme for grass root people, Stakeholders in Private Sector have called for an Innovative financing platform to compliment Government in the fight against malaria. Speaking during a community sensitization and free distribution of Long-lasting insecticide Treated Nets, LLINs organised by Access Bank, Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria, PHN and Hacey for Mushin residents, the CEO of PHN, Dr. Muntaqa Sadiq said that despite huge investments in ending Malaria, national indices still fall short because of challenges in funding, poor data for decision making, fragmented governance and service delivery in hard-to-reach communities. The Head of Sustainability of Access Bank Plc, Omobolanle Victor-Laniyan said the grassroots remain under-served. The post Stakeholders adopt innovative financing to combat malaria appeared first ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By: Kingsley Omonobi Abuja – Operatives of the Nigerian Police Force on Monday in Abuja tear gassed scores of Shiittes protesters demanding the release of the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria IMN, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The protesters who converged at the office of the National Human Rights Commission, had marched through streets, displaying placards, calling for the release of Sheikh Zakzaky. However, police personnel armed to the teeth, including support of armoured personnel carriers, mobilized to the scene and dispersed the protesters with use of tear gas and water cannons. Before Mondays protest to the National Human Rights Commission, the unrelenting followers of El-Zakzaky had carried out similar protests to the National Assembly but were also stopped by the police. There has been pro-El-Zakzaky protests across the country since his arrest with his wife and detention by the DSS December 2016 following a bloody clash with the military in 20...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Oboh Agbonkhese Youths, on the platform of UPU Youth Wing in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, have withdrawn their 14-day ultimatum to Premium Steel and Mines Limited, PSML, the new investors in former Delta Steel Company, DSC, Ovwian-Aladja, following resolutions reached after series of meetings between both parties. A statement by the youths’ President, Mr. Sunday Subi, and Secretary, Dr. Dennis Kpomah, said with the employment-related issues that prompted the ultimatum being addressed by PSML with concern, maturity and a corporate sense of responsibility, “we have no option but to call off the ultimatum and urge everyone to support PSML in resuscitating the moribund steel plant in the interest of all stakeholders.” They commended PSML’s CEO, Mr. Prasanta Mishra’s concern with the plight of host communities, noting that there was hope that Udu, and Urhobo in general, will celebrate as everyone cooperates with the new investors to ensure DSC is res...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J COMRADE J.O.B OMOTOSHO: A TRIBUTE FIFTY YEARS AFTER ‘When beggars die there are no comets seen but heavens themselves blaze the death of Princes’ William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar PREAMBLE: Life is but a chapter of mysteries which every known religion in the world offer satisfying and never satisfactory answers. The complexity and intricacies of life make it a difficult subject and one that is obviously beyond the ken of mere mortals. Obviously, the capacity of the human brain and mind to capture, in any proportion, the mysteries of life is not just limited but grossly inadequate. Ancient and contemporary philosophical traditions, order and religions could at best offer peripheral postulations, never a complete picture of the jigsaw that life is certainly is. Each of the 48 years lived by Comrade J.O.B. Omotosho was chequered, impactful, exemplary and worthy of more detailed study in dedication to humanity as a cause, purposefulness and resourcefulness. The...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Dimeji Bankole ARI seeks to encourage debate and question orthodox views. Following a meeting with Dimeji Bankole in late 2016, we post this second guest blog by the former Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives which draws on what was discussed. The first piece on reforming Nigeria from within is available here. Nigeria is in the midst of a demographic shift. Current estimates suggest that 60% of the population is under the age of 25, but over the next 30 years the balance between young and old is going to converge towards a fifty-fifty split. How are we going to afford to look after our pensioners or pay civil service basic salaries, when we cannot do so now? Source Nigeria’s current predicament is the manifestation of decisions taken 30 – 40 years ago. It follows that those taken today will manifest themselves in the next three or four decades. If we do not intervene now, the college graduate who is hawking water sachets on the street aged 30 is ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Lawmakers from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) Parliamentary Assembly on Monday said climate change would worsen food and water shortages in the Middle East and North Africa. They also said that the change in weather conditions might trigger more conflicts and mass migration, with serious implications for the wider world. Osman Askin Bak, one of the lawmakers said “the long-term prospects for food and water security in the MENA region are dire.” Bak, a member of the Turkish Parliament will present the draft report on Saturday at the Parliamentary Assembly – a gathering of senior parliamentarians from NATO’s 28 member states. He said “climate change will worsen the region’s outlook. War, poor governance, climate change and other issues have worsened tensions over competition for scarce water and food in the Middle East and North Africa.” The region is home to five per cent of the global population, and one per cent of the world’s renewable wate...

http://ift.tt/2qa51YF The structures were demolished on Saturday, May 20, 2017, by the Nasarawa State Urban Development Board (NUDB), over alleged violation of approved land laws. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has described the demolition of the structures housing the Breeze 99.9 FM, Lafia as “shocking and unbelievable”. The structures were demolished on Saturday, May 20, 2017, by the Nasarawa State Urban Development Board (NUDB), over alleged violation of approved land laws. Mrs. Franca Ayetan, NBC Zonal Director for North-Central, who led a team on a verification visit to the destroyed station on Monday, said that the development was surprising because the station followed due process in obtaining its broadcast license. “The owner of the private radio station, Dr. Nawani Aboki, followed due process in obtaining the broadcast license after all necessary inspections were carried out. “On March 31, when we came to commission the station, the state government wa...

http://ift.tt/2qagVSv Edo Assembly The speaker of Edo House of Assembly, Dr Justin Okonoboh, on Monday debunked the rumour that there was wrangling in the house. Okonoboh told newsmen in Benin while inspecting ongoing renovation of the assembly that there was no division in the house. He urged the people to disregard the rumour, saying that all was well in the legislature. ”The house is not divided; we are one family, but again there no house that is complete anywhere in the world. ”We are 24 members from different constituencies; we cannot all speak with one voice. We all have our different opinions and views,” he said. Okonoboh assured the people that the house would resume plenary as soon as all technical repairs currently ongoing in the complex were completed. Vía The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper | Nigeria News and World News http://ift.tt/2qImBpu

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A fourth person has died in an Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman from the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday. Since the WHO declared the outbreak on May 12 in north-eastern Bas-Uele province, 37 suspected cases are being monitored, WHO’s Eugene Kabambi said. Of these suspected cases, two were confirmed in the laboratory and three were regarded as probable Ebola cases, Kabambi said. Community health agents are monitoring 400 people who may have come into contact with those killed by the virus. “People who were in contact with the first case reported on April 22 came out unscathed after the 21 days of observation,’’ Kabambi said. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has suffered seven previous outbreaks of Ebola since the virus was discovered in the country in 1976. The last outbreak, in 2014, left 49 people dead. West Africa was worst affected during 2014, with the haemorrhagic fever claiming more than 11,000 l...