Date: 2023-May-05 🎯TOPIC: DEALING WITH YOUR GOLIATHS 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW 👇 https://youtu.be/9tuKQU0OkYY ✝️ TEXT: 1 Samuel 17: 28-47(NKJV) 17:28. Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was aroused against David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.” 17:29. And David said, “What have I done now? [Is there] not a cause?” 17:30. Then he…
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The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, has cautioned about the unforeseeable “consequences” that could be brought about by the retail central bank digital currencies. Georgieva expressed her concern about retail CBDCs in a May 1 interview at the Milken Institute’s 2023 Global Conference. According to the IMF boss, the IMF considers retail CBDCs to have far more room for error than wholesale CBDCs. She said, “We think that wholesale CBDCs can be put in place with fairly little space for undesirable surprises, whereas retail CBDCs completely transform the financial system in a way that we don’t…
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has reiterated its stance on its demands from the Federal Government and restated its threat to go on strike if the demands are not met. The doctors are demanding an immediate increase in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure to the tune of 200 per cent of the current gross salaries of doctors. The doctors also want the immediate withdrawal of the bill seeking to compel medical and dental graduates to render five-year compulsory services in Nigeria before being granted full licence to practise. They also want the immediate implementation of CONMESS, domestication of the…
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has confirmed $152m as the prize money for this year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Infantino made the confirmation while speaking alongside the World Trade Organisation Director-General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala during Making Trade Score for Women!, a series of panel discussions held at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The biggest women’s football competition is slated to start on July 20 and will be hosted jointly by Australia and New Zealand with FIFA also set to increase the pool of prize money significantly from what it was four years back in 2019. “As…
Former Golden Eaglets star, Akinkunmi Amoo, will appear at the District Court in Denmark on June 23 on alleged charges bothering on sexual assault and other two unspecified others, journalist Osasu Obayiuwana posted on Twitter. Amoo is reportedly in Nigeria after being granted permission by his club FC Copenhagen to visit his family and at the same time train with the Nigeria Football Federation’s medical staff. The 20-year-old has been training with the Flying Eagles in Abuja as he continues his rehabilitation from a long-term knee injury. In the latest development, Amoo, who was the Eaglets’ standout player at the…
The first batch of Nigerians returning from Sudan has arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. The 376 returnees, who took off from Aswan, Egypt, after a tumultuous journey crossing the border, were on Wednesday airlifted by the Nigerian Air Force on the NAF C-130H aircraft and Air Peace at about 4 pm in the afternoon. Photo credit: Gift Habib, Solomon Odeniyi Photo credit: Gift Habib, Solomon Odeniyi Photo credit: Gift Habib, Solomon Odeniyi Photo credit: Gift Habib, Solomon Odeniyi Photo credit: Gift Habib, Solomon Odeniyi Photo credit: Gift Habib, Solomon Odeniyi Photo credit: Gift Habib, Solomon Odeniyi
The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Prof Fatima Waziri-Azi, has said that Nigerian women working in Iraq are exploited in diverse ways. The DG disclosed this in a statement while speaking on the plight of young women, saying that most of them worked as domestic workers in Iraq, and were exploited on daily basis. Waziri-Azi said that most of the young Nigeria women were now requesting for assistance to return home. She said that NAPTIP was currently investigating several rogue labour recruiters who had been reported to be big players in the massive…
•Borrowing from CBN illegal, suspicious, say NECA, LCCI, economists •N22.7tn extra-budgetary spending to raise public debts to N69tn Prominent economists, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association and opposition parties took a swipe at the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, (retd.), and the Senate over the government’s N22.7tn extra-budgetary spending approved by the upper legislative chamber on Wednesday. While groups including NECA and the Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry questioned the rationale for the loan by a regime that was approaching its exit, economists, in separate interviews with The PUNCH, described the approval by the Senate as unusual. With the approval by…
The Bishop of Owo Anglican Diocese, the Rt. Rev’d (Dr) Stephen Fagbemi, has administered the vow of fellowship and conferred the honor on some selected individuals during the Owo Anglican Diocese 40th Anniversary Thanksgiving and Investiture of Fellows held at St Andrew’s Church, Imola, Owo. The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Special Adviser to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, on Union Matters and Special Duties, Mr. Dare Aragbaiye and the Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom, Oba Frederick Akinruntan, were among the 28 eminent personalities invested as Fellows of Owo Anglican Diocese. The event was well attended by the…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has advised the Nigerian government to tailor the country’s academic curriculum to suit its needs. The UN agency gave the advice stated this at a capacity-building workshop for officials of the Ministry of Education, in Abuja. UNESCO’s Director for the International Bureau of Education, IBE, Mr. Ydo Yao, warned that unemployment persists because many Nigerians and Africans go to school and are qualified but have no jobs owing to the irrelevance of their training. “Whereas we have some areas that are not exploited at all, with big potential for job creation,…