Tuesday, September 30, 2008

News Desk 09-30-08

Nigeria's Community Outreach Improves Polio Immunization Rates

A grassroots mobilization initiative, the Community Participation for Action in the Social Sector, known as COMPASS, a United States Agency for International Development-funded project, is promoting oral polio vaccines and changing long-held suspicions in polio-endemic northern Nigeria. MORE>>>

Nigeria to set up three training centres for shrimp farming

APA - Lagos (Nigeria) The Director of Nigeria’s Federal Department of Fisheries (FDF), Mr Shola Armire, Tuesday said that the Nigerian government had concluded arrangements to set up three shrimp centres in Oyo, Ekiti and Adamawa states for training in shrimp farming. MORE>>>

Foreign funds cut Nigeria exposure, impact limited - analysts

LAGOS, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Nigeria's buoyant real economy and strong domestic liquidity will limit the damage caused by hedge funds and portfolio investors pulling money out of the country as the global financial crisis bites, analysts say. MORE>>>