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Oscar Onyema, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange has completed his tenure.
Onyema, 52, assumed the position on April 4, 2011. He was formerly Senior Vice President of the American Stock Exchange.
In a statement on Tuesday, Olumide Orojimi, Head of Corporate Communications, said a closing ceremony was held to honour him.
Orojimi noted that the NSE experienced significant growth under the former CEO. He cited the recent completion of the demutualisation of The Exchange.
Onyema recalled he took over when the stock market was “in the doldrums, investors’ confidence low, mono product and the bourse under regulatory administration”.
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A heavy storm reported around the Benin airport forced his aircraft to make a detour.
Governor Godwin Obaseki confirmed the situation in his address at the ‘Edo 2020’ opening ceremony.
“His plane had to be diverted due to the bad weather”, NAN quoted him as saying.
Osinbajo was to stand in for President Muhammadu Buhari. The afternoon downpour delayed the commencement of the event.
Sunday Dare, the Minister of Youth and Sports delivered the President’s message.
Dare announced that the festival would showcase Nigeria’s best talents in over 32 different sports events.
“The NSF is the biggest sports fiesta in the country, where both professionals and home-based athletes converge to display their prowess”, he said.
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It is certainly a measure of the premium placed on the delivery of social goods that the seven-day old strike by doctors has not elicited a sense of emergency on the part of the government and the public alike.
The strike took a turn for the worse on Monday when the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) ordered its members in the COVID-19 isolation centres to join the strike. The doctors undergoing residency training to become consultants are estimated to constitute about 40% of doctors in Nigeria. With the population of NARD members in the healthcare delivery system, a labour action embarked by them is expected to have a significant impact on the sector. As an affiliate of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), NARDâs action would have consequences on the work of other groups of doctors. It would be illusory to think otherwise in the unfortunate circumstance of the healthcare system. In
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The Nigerian government has explained its directive to states to put COVID-19 vaccination on hold once they used half of the doses allocated to them.
Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, addressed the media at Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Tuesday.
The official explained there was no confirmation yet on the timeframe for delivery of second batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
He said it was important that those who already received their first jab complete their vaccination.
“In a situation where we still cannot determine when the next batch of AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive, it is better for us to vaccinate people fully.”
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Amid the current hardship being endured by Nigerians, some major economic sectors in the country have decided to shut down over the inability of the Federal Government to meet their demands.
In less than a week, about three major sectors embarked on indefinite strike actions to register their grievances against the government.
This is happening few days after President Muhammadu Buhari departed Nigeria for the United Kingdom for medical check-up.
Following ‘unproductive’ efforts by the FG to stop the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) from embarking on its proposed strike, the association, on Thursday, April 1st commenced an industrial action, shutting down the medical sector indefinitely.