“Asking Iran to freeze its oil production level is illogical,” Iran’s OPEC envoy, Mehdi Asali, was quoted as saying by the Shargh newspaper.
Brent crude LCOc1 was up by 28 cents at $32.46 a barrel by 0904 GMT, after settling down to $1.21 in the previous session. U.S crude CLc1 rose by 16 cents to $29.20 a barrel.
The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) and Assembly of Health Care Professionals (APHA), may commence their suspended industrial strike tomorrow, February 18, 2016. The group has given the Federal Government until Wednesday to meet their demands, after which they will act on their threat.
President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), a member of AHPA, Ahmed I. Yakasai, has called for 15 per cent of the national budget to be allocated to the health sector as well as full implementation of the National Health Act with provision for the one per cent of the consolidated national fund, which is about N60 billion.
“We have said it is 3.65 per cent but we thought that the one per cent of the consolidated revenue will be reflected in the budget. Do not forget that even the minister said that the budget submitted was not really the actual budget. So, they will go back to the drawing board and come back.
“We hope that probably the N60 billion from the one per cent consolidated fund will be reflected. If we really want to improve Primary Health Care (PHC), that one per cent must be there.
Medview Airline has signed an agreement with Air Atlanta of Iceland for the acquisition of a B747-400. Stated in the agreement is that Air Atlanta will deliver the 463-capacity aircraft to Medview to shore up its fleet as the airline prepares to open up more international routes.
It will specifically be deployed for Hajj operations and also to support the London and Jeddah routes.
The signing ceremony at Medview Headquarters, Ikeja, was graced by the presence of the managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Medview Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, the head of Engineering, Lookman Animashaun, and Air Altanta director, Sales, Magnus Asgeirsson.
The airline’s CEO remarked that the agreement is a turning point in the 10 year-old partnership with Air Atlanta as both parties have kept faith with the existing relationship, “and we have moved a step further.”
Meanwhile, the airline has taken delivery of another B737-400, bringing the fleet size to six aircraft.
Union Bank yesterday in Kaduna has intensified its efforts to ensure that its customers enjoy services akin to that of new generation banking system. To this effect, the bank decided to trash with its slow pace and analogue way of banking that had tagged Union bank over the years as an old school bank.
The Director of the Union bank, Ibrahim Kwargana, encouraged customers to migrate to online banking with the bank.
He added that customers can open current account with only N5, 000.00 with little or no stress to get documented.
“Our goal is to make banking simpler and smarter for our numerous customers across the country.
“We have refurbished 50 branches of the Union bank across the country, putting into consideration, the behaviour of our customers towards modern banking”.
Osun State medical doctors on Tuesday staged a public protest against the non-payment of their salaries by the state government. Dressed in lab coats, they all marched from OSAMDO House to the House of Assembly where they submitted their protest letter to the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Akintunde Adegboye, who received them. They expressed their discomfort stating that they had not been paid since October 2015, adding that the state government was only paying them stipends before it stopped paying them in September.
Ogunyemi said the sympathy strike planned by the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, doctors would commence on Wednesday if nothing was done to avert this.
The spokesman for the governor, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, said “In the face of the current economic realities, it remains unbelievable that doctors would insist that they would not be bound by the payment regime agreed to by over 39,000 other workers in the state, which was arrived at after a rigorous deliberation on the finances of the state within the context of the national economic realities.”
“By December, we told them they should resume work and they have remained adamant that they want to earn what we cannot afford. In the first instance, except in communist country, you cannot force anybody to work, you can’t drag workers to work under democracy.
“It is either you want to work or you don’t want to work. But if you cannot take what we are offering and what other workers including doctors in local government areas, including consultants at the state level are taking, we cannot afford it.”
The French Education Fair is organized yearly in Nigeria by the French Embassy in collaboration with Tripplelink and Campus France.The French Embassy has a goal to increase the number of Nigerian students that study in France and one of the measures they have put in place to achieve this goal is the annual French Education Fair in Nigeria. There are parallel education fairs in other parts of the world.
The Fair brings together representatives from French Universities, notable French companies and the French Embassy. These individuals are to provide on-the-spot consulting and advisory services to a wide range of individuals – from school leavers to degree holders – seeking to pursue further education in France now or in the near future.
These services include:
Venue : Abuja– 23rd February 2016 || Banquet Hall, Sheraton Hotel and Towers.
Lagos– 25th February 2016 || Grand Ball Room, Eko Hotel and Convention Centre.
Time:10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Contact: Www.frencheducationfair.com
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Grange School, founded in 1958 by enterprising private British Citizens, offers the English National Curriculum at an equivalent standard to that which obtains in the United Kingdom. Checkpoint and IGCSE result are outstanding with this year almost 95% of students achieving A- C average. Grange is one of only to schools in West Africa to be an accredited member of Council of British International Schools (COBIS).
Due to the positive growth in students’ numbers and a desire to keep Grange School at the cutting edge of the curriculum development, we hereby invite applications for the listed positions below:
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APM Terminals is one of the worlds largest, high technology and most – respected container terminal operators offering the global shipping community an Integrated and growing Global Terminal Network of over 70 operating container facilities in 64 countries on 5 continents including Africa. APM Terminals is a recipient of diverse international awards one of which is ‘Port Operators of the Year’ at the Lloyd’s list 2012 Global awards.
Applications are invited from qualified candidates for:
APM Terminals 6th Scholarship and Industrial Attachment Programme
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Length of scholarship: 1 Academic year
Start date for industrial attachment: June 2016
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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), parent company of the Ecobank Group, today announced a leadership change in its most profitable subsidiary, Ecobank Ghana Limited.
Mr. Samuel Ashitey Adjei, the current Managing Director of the Ghana Subsidiary, has been appointed Managing Director for the Group’s recently combined region, Central, Eastern, and Southern African (CESA) Countries, consisting of 18 subsidiaries. Mr. Adjei will step down as MD of Ecobank Ghana on the 30th of March, 2016.
Mr. Sam Adjei, credited with the bank’s outstanding performance in the last several years, assumed the position of Managing Director for Ecobank Ghana in 2006, and has since built the bank from eight to 78 branches, and to an enviable position of the leading bank in Ghana. Today, including the Ghana subsidiary, Sam Adjei runs the Group’s West African Monetary Zone member countries. A renowned banker in the Ghana banking industry, Sam has influenced policies and industry transformation, and is a well-respected banking professional across the market.
Mr. Adjei, who started his banking career over 25 years ago, has spent the significant part of his career with Ecobank. He joined Ecobank in 1990 and held several business leadership positions until his appointment as Managing Director. Prior to the MD role, He was Deputy Managing Director for a year, and following that, was an executive director, and head of Corporate Banking & Treasury.
Ecobank Group CEO Ade Ayeyemi said, “over the last several years, and more so in the last 10 years, as Managing Director, Sam has taken our Ghana Subsidiary to unprecedented leadership heights, and has given us a franchise that is well positioned for continued and sustainable success. The last 10 years have seen this subsidiary grow exponentially. It has become the most successful and profitable subsidiary, both internally within the Ecobank Group, and externally in the Ghana banking industry. We are confident that Sam will exemplify this success in his new role as Regional Executive for our newly created CESA Region”.
Mr. Adjei said: “I have spent the last 25 years of my life, contributing to and helping to build this great institution of ours – Ecobank. But the real credit goes to the many great men and women alongside whom I have worked in Ecobank Ghana, the West African Monetary Zone region, and Ecobank overall. I have had the privilege of working with the best and brightest in the industry. Together, my leadership team, and the respective boards of directors, have been the pillar of success at Ecobank Ghana, and the West African Monetary Zone region. I leave my customers and my partners in the industry with a heavy heart, but I continue to believe that it is the overall franchise that has contributed to their respective journeys with Ecobank, and I wish them all well with continued success.”
The Chairman of the Ecobank Ghana Board, Mr. Terence Darko, said: “Sam is a modest and assiduous gentleman. It has been a pleasure to work and learn from him the business of banking. This is a well-earned promotion. On behalf of the Ecobank Ghana Board, its Management team and staff, I would like to thank Sam for his commitment and outstanding leadership over the last ten years. We wish Sam continued success in his new and challenging assignment. There is no doubt that he will replicate this success in his new role.”
Mr. Darko indicated that in partnership with the Group’s head office, the Board will immediately launch the process of selecting a successor to Mr. Adjei, a process that will conclude by the 30th of April.
