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Thursday, 20 August 2026

Shippers’ Council Rebrands As NPERA, Vows New Era Of Port Regulation

Shippers’ Council Rebrands As NPERA, Vows New Era...

By ebosele@hotmail.com – Nigeria’s port sector has entered a new regulatory era, with the Nigerian Shippers’ Council formally transitioning into the Nigeria Ports...
Shell, Contractors Reaffirm Commitment To Safety, Operational Excellence

Shell, Contractors Reaffirm Commitment To Safety, Operational Excellence

By ebosele@hotmail.com – Shell on Wednesday hosted chief executives of contracting companies in Lagos, with a call for sustained commitment to safe operations...
SON Sensitises Foam Manufacturers On Standards, MANCAP Certification

SON Sensitises Foam Manufacturers On Standards, MANCAP Certification

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Sokoto State Office, has intensified its engagement with the Foam Manufacturers Association (FMA) through...

SON Sensitises Foam Manufacturers On Standards, MANCAP Certification

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Sokoto State Office, has intensified its engagement with the Foam Manufacturers Association (FMA) through a sensitisation meeting focused on sta...

Ezekwesili Faults £746m Ports Deal, Urges Tinubu To Cancel

By ebosele@hotmail.com – Former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has called on President Bola Tinubu to terminate the £746 million ports financing deal signed between Nigeria and the United Kingdom,...

ICPC Sensitises 100 Lake Chad Research Institute Staff on Anti-Corruption,...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has sensitised 100 staff members of the Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI), Maiduguri, on ethical conduct, transparency and professional acc...

Lagos, Festival Hotel Explore Partnership To Boost Hospitality Sector

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The Lagos State Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture has reiterated its commitment to strengthening collaboration with private-sector operators to drive the growth of tourism and hospitali...

FICAN Conference To Explore Nigeria’s Banking, Tax, Fintech Reforms

By ebosele@hotmail.com Nigeria’s leading policymakers, financial regulators, banking executives, fintech innovators, economists and capital market operators are set to converge in Lagos on September 19 and 20, 2026, fo...

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FICAN Conference To Explore Nigeria’s Banking, Tax, Fintech Reforms

By ebosele@hotmail.com Nigeria’s leading policymakers, financial regulators, banking executives, fintech innovators, economists and capital market operators are set to converge in Lagos on September 19 and 20, 2026, fo...

SEC Sets 5pm T+1 Deadline For Equities, Commodities Settlement

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fixed 5:00 p.m. on the first business day after a transaction (T+1) as the settlement deadline for equities and commodities traded and settl...
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SEC Urges FCT To Tap Capital Market For Abuja Infrastructure...

The Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dr. Emomotimi Agama, has urged the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to leverage Nigeria’s capital market to mobilise long-term financ...

CBN, Experts Chart Africa’s Economic Future

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The 7th Africa Emerging Markets Forum (AEMF 2026), hosted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Abuja, opened with high-level discussions on the future of Africa’s economy and strategie...

Tinubu Optimistic As NGX Market Capitalisation Hits N160tri

By ebosele@hotmail.com – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed optimism about Nigeria’s economic outlook, saying positive assessments by experts and improving economic indicators demonstrate that the coun...

Maritime

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Shippers’ Council Rebrands As NPERA, Vows New Era Of Port...

By ebosele@hotmail.com – Nigeria’s port sector has entered a new regulatory era, with the Nigerian Shippers’ Council formally transitioning into the Nigeria Ports Economic Regulatory Agency (NPERA).The transiti...

Ezekwesili Faults £746m Ports Deal, Urges Tinubu To Cancel

By ebosele@hotmail.com – Former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has called on President Bola Tinubu to terminate the £746 million ports financing deal signed between Nigeria and the United Kingdom,...

EFCC Probes $73,000, £15,957, 827,800 SAR Intercepted By Customs

The Kano Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced investigation of a suspect, Haruna Yusuf and multiple undeclared foreign currencies, , $73,000( Seventy Three United States ...

NPERA Act: Between Economic Regulation And NPA’s Statutory Mandate

The new Ports Economic Regulatory Agency could bring discipline, transparency and competition to Nigeria’s port economy.But, unless its powers are carefully separated from those of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), t...

Nigeria Customs Highlights Integrity Reforms

The National Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Deputy Comptroller of Customs Abdullahi Maiwada, has reaffirmed the Service’s commitment to strengthening integrity, transparency and accounta...

WMotors Brings Jetour Africa Expedition To Nigeria, Puts T1, T2,...

There was excitement across Lagos on Sunday as WMotors brought the 2026 Jetour Africa Expedition to Nigeria, with eight Jetour T1, T2 and G700 vehicles taking on a 128km adventure through major city streets and key locat...

Lagos Apprehends 175 Vehicles Over Dealer Plate Violations

By ebosele@hotmail.com The Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) on Monday apprehended 175 vehicles for violating regulations governing the use of dealer number plates.Under the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform...

Group Tasks Sanwo-Olu On Dealer Number Plate Enforcement

By ebosele@hotmail.com The Association of Progressive Freight Forwarders of Nigeria (APFFLON) has appealed to the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, to urgently review the state government’s directiv...

Lagos Intensifies Enforcement Against Dealers’ Number Plate Violations

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) has intensified enforcement operations against motorists found violating regulations governing the use of Dealers’ Number Plates across th...

NADDC, National CNG Forum Explore Collaboration

By ebosele@hotmail.com The National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) on Wednesday received a delegation from the National CNG Forum (NCNG-F) to explore opportunities for collaboration aimed at strengthen...

Energy

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Shell, Contractors Reaffirm Commitment To Safety, Operational Excellence

By ebosele@hotmail.com – Shell on Wednesday hosted chief executives of contracting companies in Lagos, with a call for sustained commitment to safe operations across its businesses in Nigeria.City Business News rep...

NLNG, NCDMB Advance Human Capital Development With RSU

By ebosele@hotmail.com – Efforts to strengthen Nigeria’s indigenous research and technological capacity received a major boost on Thursday as the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) and the Nigerian Content Development an...

IMT Unveils Locally Produced Transformers, Power Banks

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, has unveiled locally produced power transformers and power banks manufactured at the KEW-POWER workshop on Campus 3 of the instituti...

Customs Hands Over Three Diverted Fuel Tankers To NMDPRA

By ebosele@hotmail.com The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intensified its crackdown on the illegal diversion of petroleum products, handing over three intercepted tanker trucks to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream...

NADDC, National CNG Forum Explore Collaboration

By ebosele@hotmail.com The National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) on Wednesday received a delegation from the National CNG Forum (NCNG-F) to explore opportunities for collaboration aimed at strengthen...

Photo News

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Photo News

L-R: Eric Nwafor- HOD, Research & Design, National Automotive Design & Devt, Council (NADDC) Mrs. Joke Onireti, Director, Industrial Infrastructure NADDC; Chief Anselm Ilekuba, Chairman/CEO CedricMasters Group &a...

Photo News

L-R: Director, Public Relations, National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Mrs. Suzan Taiwo; Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Shehu Mohammed; National Chairman of the Nigeria A...

Starzs At 40 Photo News:

L-R: Managing Director/CEO, Starzs Investments Company Limited (SICL), Ms. Iroghama Ogbeifun, General Manager, Corporate Communications, NCDMB, Dr. Obinna Ezoebi, Former Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development ...

Starzs At 40

Managing Director/CEO, SICL, Ms. Iroghama delivering her opening remarks during the company’s milestone 40th anniversary celebration and Gala Night themed Transforming Lives, 40 years on held in Port Harcourt, Rivers S...

Photo News

R-L: Publisher, City Business News Online, Moses Ebosele, Founder of ABC Transport Plc, Mr Frank Nneji, former Corps Marshall, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and President, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transpor...

Security/Safety

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FRSC, Indian University Train 1,000 Law Enforcement Personnel on Stress Management

FRSC, Indian University Train 1,000 Law Enforcement Personnel...

By ebosele@hotmail.com The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), in partnership with Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU), Gujarat, India, has commenced a 10-day international training...
Lagos Intensifies Enforcement Against Dealers’ Number Plate Violations

Lagos Intensifies Enforcement Against Dealers’ Number Plate Violations

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) has intensified enforcement operations against motorists found violating regulations governing the use of...
Osun 2026: INEC Declares Adeleke Winner

Osun 2026: INEC Declares Adeleke Winner

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Accord Party as the winner of Saturday’s Osun governorship election.The...

Agriculture

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NAQS, Cattle Breeders Partner to Boost Livestock Exports, Biosecurity

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening collaboration with key industry stakeholders to enhance the competitiveness of Ni...

Nigeria, China Strengthen Agricultural, Aquatic Exports

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) and the People’s Republic of China have strengthened bilateral cooperation aimed at expanding agricultural trade, improvin...

BOI Secures €60m EIB Facility To Boost Nigeria’s Cocoa Value...

Photo Caption:L-R: Ayo Sotinrin, MD/CEO, Bank of Agriculture; Massimo De-Luca, Head of Cooperation of the European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS; Olasupo Olusi, MD/CEO, Bank of Industry (BoI); Abubakar...

Education

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FRSC, Indian University Train 1,000 Law Enforcement Personnel on Stress...

By ebosele@hotmail.com The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), in partnership with Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU), Gujarat, India, has commenced a 10-day international training programme on stress management a...

NCAT Graduates 21 Aeronautical Information Management Officers

By ebosele@hotmail.com – The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria, has graduated 21 participants of the Basic Aeronautical Information Management Officer’s Course No. 17 (BAIMO-17), fol...

NADDC, NYSC Flag Off CNG Retrofitting Training For Corps Members

The National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), in collaboration with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has flagged off a Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Retrofitting Training Programme for ...