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June 9, 2020 No Responses

Opinion: Racism Seeks To Drive Us Apart But There Are Rays Of Hope

By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General Today, I received a message from a parent. Her nine-year-old son, Oscar, had been sitting in his living room during the Covid-19 lockdown, watching coverage of protests, sparked by the death of George Floyd in...

June 8, 2020 No Responses

Shippers’ Council, Stakeholders Harp On Sustained Cargo Evacuation From Seaports By Rail

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) is to supervise Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of cargo evacuation between the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) and the APM Terminal. Speaking on Monday at the resumed evacuation of cargoes by rail in Lagos, Mrs Ife...

June 8, 2020 No Responses

NLC Canvasses Global Standards For Food Safety

“It is important to develop and enforce global standards that will promote food safety from farm to the table, the President of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)”, Comrade Ayuba Wabba has said. In a message to mark 2020 World Food Day,...

June 8, 2020 No Responses

FG Supports 6, 457 South-West Maize Farmers With N1b Inputs

No fewer than 6,457 members of South-West Maize Association of Nigeria (MAAN) are to receive inputs worth N1 billion from the Anchor Borrower Programme (ABP) of the Federal Government. Already, some of the inputs were distributed to farmers in Ibadan,....

June 8, 2020 No Responses

Obasanjo Seeks Increased Food Production

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has advised African leaders to intensify efforts at improving agriculture in their respective countries in order to meet the challenges of post COVID-19 looming food crisis. Obasanjo gave the advice at the flag-off of his fi...

June 8, 2020 No Responses

Airtel Africa Celebrates 10 Years Milestone With 110m Customers

Airtel Africa, a telecommunications provider in 14 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, celebrates its 10-year anniversary in June, the company said in a statement on Monday.The company said in the statement that over the past decade it had supported social tr...

June 5, 2020 No Responses

UNCTAD Appoints Dona Bertarelli Special Adviser For Blue Economy

Dona Bertarelli, the fastest woman to sail around the world, philanthropist, ocean conservation advocate and entrepreneur, has been named theUNCTAD Special Adviser for the Blue Economy. Ms. Bertarelli will help UNCTAD promote a sustainable blue economy, partic...

June 5, 2020 No Responses

Profit Taking: NSE Slides Further By N155b

Profit taking was persistent on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday with investors net worth dropping further by N155 billion. Specifically, the market capitalisation dipped N155 billion or 1.17 per cent to close at N13.049 trillion compared with N13.2...

June 5, 2020 No Responses

SHACMAN Nigeria Boosts Product Range With Fire Trucks

SHACMAN Nigeria has introduced two models of fire trucks to its range of trucks.In a statement sent to City Business News (www.citybusinessnews.com) on Friday, the company explained that the two new fire trucks as SHACMAN ...

June 5, 2020 No Responses

FRSC Redeploys 119 Senior Officers

As part of measures to strategically reposition Officers for optimal performance, the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has approved the redeployment of 119 Officers. The officers are of the ranks of Assistant Corp...

June 5, 2020 No Responses

Police In Ogun Arrests Lovers For Faking Kidnap

The Police Command in Ogun has arrested a 17-year-old girl, Seun Adekunle, and her 25-year-old boyfriend, Basit Olasunkanm, for allegedly faking kidnap of the girl. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, made the discl...

June 5, 2020 No Responses

Fayemi Pledges To Continue Ekiti Airport Project

The Cargo Airport, currently being built by the Ekiti State government in Ado Ekiti, will continue, notwithstanding the present unfriendly economy, Gov. Kayode Fayemi has said.The governor, who said this on Friday in Ado Ekiti, while on an inspection visit...

June 5, 2020 No Responses

Court Reaffirms INEC’s Power To Deregister Political Parties

The Federal High Court Abuja on Friday reaffirmed the powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister political parties. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, delivering judgment in a suit filed by Hope Democratic Party (HDP) against INEC, reaffi...

June 5, 2020 No Responses

UBA Rewards 100 More Customers With N100,000 Each

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has rewarded another set of 100 loyal customers with a total of N10m in the UBA Bumper account draw. A statement sent to City Business News (www.citybusinessnews.com) on Friday explained that the 100 customers...