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 Gates will engage with experts in Nigeria’s primary health care, agriculture, and nutrition who are advancing progress across Africa despite economic hurdles.  American business magnate and co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, will be visiting Nigeria on Tuesday Gates, who is a co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be in Nigeria to discuss solutions to a wide range of development challenges.   This was made known in a statement issued by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Abuja, Nigerian capital.   The statement noted that Gates is expected to meet with Nigerian government officials, youth and partners to discuss solutions to health, agriculture, poverty challenges and boosting nutrition in Africa.   Along with other foundation leaders, Gates will engage with experts in Nigeria’s primary health care, agriculture, and nutrition who are advancing progress across Africa despite economic hurdles.    He will also take part in a p...

  After being hounded over her nationality and forced to drop out of the Miss South Africa contest, Chidimma Adetshina has been crowned beauty queen of a totally different country. Ms Adetshina cried tears of joy as she was named Miss Universe Nigeria on Saturday. "This crown is not just for beauty; it's a call for unity," the 23-year-old law student stated after weeks at the centre of an intense media storm. She was invited to participate in Miss Universe Nigeria after her position as a finalist in the Miss South Africa contest sparked a wave of criticism. Some people in South Africa had questioned her eligibility to compete in the beauty pageant because despite being a South African citizen, Ms Adetshina's father is Nigerian and her mother has Mozambican roots. Beauty contest sparks row over who counts as South African Tyla’s racial identity: South African singer sparks culture war In interviews Ms Adetshina said she was born in Soweto - the South African township n...

 First Bank of Nigeria is a Nigerian multinational bank and financial services company headquartered in Lagos. It is the biggest bank in Nigeria by total deposits and gross earnings. FBN operates a network of over 750 business locations across Africa, and the United Kingdom, and representative offices in Abu Dhabi, Beijing and Johannesburg set up to capture trade-related business between geographies. Applications are invited from interested and qualified candidates to apply to fill the First Bank of Nigeria Graduate Recruitment 2024. Team Lead, Non-Financial Transactions North Job Specifications: Full Time Required Qualifications:  BA/BSC/HND   Location: Abuja, Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara | Nigeria.      Job Description: To ensure overall handling of customers with regards to customer care, E-business products, account opening and maintenance to account holders, and ...

 The Federal Government has declared that underage candidates will no longer be permitted to sit for secondary school leaving examinations administered by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council (NECO). The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this when he appeared on Channels Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’ programme on Sunday night. He stressed that both the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council (NECO) must now enforce an 18-year age limit for candidates taking the WASSCE and SSCE exams, respectively. The minister also clarified that this is not a new policy but a reinforcement of existing regulations. His words: “It is 18 (years). What we did at the meeting that we had with JAMB (in July) was to allow this year and for it to serve as a kind of notice for parents that this year, JAMB will admit students who are below that age but from next year, JAMB is going to insist that anybody ...

  No fewer than 26,000 candidates applied for the 6,000 smart school job slots in Enugu State. DAILY POST reports that the assessment of the candidates, which commenced four days ago, is taking place simultaneously at both the Enugu State College of Education Technical and the Institute of Management and Technology, IMT, Enugu. Addressing journalists at the IMT venue of the exercise, the Commissioner for Education, Prof Ndubueze Mbah said the exercise was in realisation of the Governor Peter Mbah administration’s commitment towards raising the bar of education in the state. He disclosed that the ministry received applications from 26,330 candidates, adding that “we had to come up with a bias-free process of evaluating their subject area competency and basic digital literacy proficiency. “To be able to do that, we came up with the computer-based test; the exam is running simultaneously at Enugu State College of Education Technical and at the Institute of Management and Technology. “...