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Nigeria Bureau
ABUJA,
(CAJ News) – THE new United States (US) administration is mending relations with Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and biggest economy.
Relations were strained under the government of Donald Trump, who led America from 2017.
Antony Blinken, Secretary of State in President Joe Biden’s administration, highlighted the importance of the relationship between the two countries during a call to the Nigerian Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama.
Ned Price, the US Department of State spokesperson, said Blinken outlined a holistic approach to the US-Nigeria partnership based on the shared values of democracy, respect for human rights and robust people-to-people relations.
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Procurement professionalization in challenging environments: The cases of Afghanistan and Nigeria (Live Event)
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The World Bank has been supporting the professionalization of public procurement to help strengthen the skills and competencies of practitioners and make the delivery of goods, services, and works to citizens more efficient.
In Afghanistan, the National Procurement Authority, through Civil Services Commission, has developed a Procurement Cadre Regulation and recruited about 1000 procurement staff. The National Procurement Institute has developed systematic training, certification, and accreditation of staff. This was part of the Fiscal Performance Support Project with support from the World Bank.
In Nigeria, the World Bank-funded Sustainable Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards Enhancement Project (SPESSE) is supporting six federal universities to graduate 21,240 students in Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards (PES). The project is also he
Recruitment: Customs announce change in venue for South-East shortlisted candidates
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Wednesday announced a change in venue for its recruitment exercise for some shortlisted candidates.
Joseph Attah, Public Relations Officer for Comptroller-General of Customs in a statement said the change for South-East and South-South shortlisted candidates war moved from South-East/South-South to HERO’S SQUARE, New Owerri.
The venue was changed due to the renovation of Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri.
NCS had earlier announced that screening for shortlisted candidates will be held on zonal bases with the dates staggered according to grade levels and time allotted to states.
“Nigeria has highest number of poor people globally”- El-Rufai
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El Rufai made the assertions during the launching of the State Social Protection Policy.
He said it was lamentable that programs designed to help the poor in society are usually allocated to important people instead of giving it to those who truly deserve and need it.
El Rufai said such unfortunate actions and mentality has contributed to the many problems Nigeria faces.
“Nigeria is going through serious trying times and it’s no longer news that we have the largest number of poor people than any country in the world.