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August 20, 2021 No Responses

Afghan Footballer Falls To Death From US Plane

Afghan authorities have confirmed that a young footballer fell to his death after trying to stow away on a US military plane leaving Kabul airport. Zaki Anwari, 19, had played for Afghanistan’s national youth team. Further details of when he...

August 19, 2021 No Responses

FIRS Targets N10.1trn Revenue In 2022

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has projected generating N10.1 trillion revenue for the 2022 financial year. Chairman of FIRS, Muhammad Nami stated this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Finance on Wednesday, in ...

August 19, 2021 No Responses

FEC Approves N1.7b For NEITI, NDLEA, FRSC

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N1.7billion for the acquisition of permanent office for the Nigeria Extractive Industries, Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and purchase of scanners for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Mr Femi...

August 19, 2021 No Responses

SEC Seeks Collaboration On Dispute Resolution In Capital Market

The Securities and Exchange Commission has expressed its readiness to collaborate with relevant Alternative Dispute Resolution professionals as a means to ensuring effective dispute resolution in the capital market. Director-General of the SEC, Mr. Lamid...

August 19, 2021 No Responses

Nexford University Partners Sterling Bank On Capacity Building, Others

Nexford University, a Washington D.C. based next-generation online university, has announced new partnership with Sterling Bank, one of Nigeria’s commercial banks. Nexford University in a statement sent to City BusinessNews (www.citybusinessnews....

August 19, 2021 No Responses

Anambra Extols Air Peace, Onyema’s Patriotism

The Anambra State Government has praised Nigeria’s leading air carrier, Air Peace, for its no-city-left-behind strategy which has seen it open operations in different parts of the country in the last few months The latest operations were opened in Gombe....

August 19, 2021 No Responses

Maersk Signs First Green Methanol Deal

A.P. Moller-Maersk said on Wednesday it had signed a contract securing green methanol as the world’s largest shipping firm gears up to operate its first carbon-neutral ship in 2023.With about 90% of world trade transported by sea, global shipping accou...

August 19, 2021 No Responses

School Feeding Programme Gulps N1.8b In Ondo

The Federal Government has spent over N1.8 billion on the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Ondo State in the last three years. A statement issued on Wednesday by Mrs Nneka Anibeze, the Special Assistant on Media to the...

August 19, 2021 No Responses

NEPZA Backs Partnership To Develop Abuja University

The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has expressed readiness to support the partnership between Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and University of Abuja for the university’s permanent site development. A statement by Mr Martin...

August 18, 2021 No Responses

CBN Releases Framework Against Cyber Attack

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday released a framework to protect Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) against cyber-attack. This was contained in a memo issued by Nkiru Asiegbu, CBN’s Director, Other Financial Institutions Supervision D...

August 18, 2021 No Responses

SON Tasks Aluminum Manufacturers On Standardisation

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has charged manufacturers and dealers of aluminum products on strict adherence to global best practices on standardization. Malam Farouk Salim, Director General of SON, gave the advice at a sensitization workshop o...

August 18, 2021 No Responses

Osun Empowers 100 Livestock Farmers

The Osun government on Tuesday distributed day-old chicks to 100 livestock farmers to boost poultry farming in the state. Each of the farmers was given 2,000 chicks. At the distribution in Ede, Mr. Dayo Adewole, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Food...

August 18, 2021 No Responses

NNPC Reiterates Support For NLNG

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has reiterated the Corporation’s commitment to supporting the Nigeria LiquefiedNatural Gas (NLNG) Limited towards achieving its goal of becoming a global LN...

August 18, 2021 No Responses

Makinde Seeks N50b Supplementary Budget For Ibadan Airport Project, Others

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde on Tuesday sought the consideration and approval of the state House of Assembly for a supplementary budget of N50 billion. In a letter sent to the House of Assembly in Ibadan, and read by the Speaker,...