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June 9, 2020 No Responses

ILO Seeks Release Of 150,000 Seafarers Trapped On Board Ships

The International Labour Organization (ILO) on has called for urgent and coordinated action to release the 150,000 to 200,000 seafarers trapped on board ships around the world because of measures to contain the COVID-19 virus.The ILO in a statement on Monday urged governments,...

June 9, 2020 No Responses

BUA Cement lifts NSE As Market Capitalisation Retains N45b

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) key market indices improved further by 0.34 per cent on Tuesday due to sustained interest in BUA Cement. Speficially, the All-Share Index which opened at 25,249.96, rose by 85.19 points or 0.34 per cent to...

June 9, 2020 No Responses

MTN Nigeria Explains Completion Of N100b Commercial Paper

MTN Nigeria Communications (MTNN) Plc on Tuesday announced the successful issuance of N100 billion Series I & II Commercial Paper (CP) notes. MTNN stated this in a notice to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the investing public signed by...

June 9, 2020 No Responses

Customs Confiscates N3.2b Items, Arrest Eight Suspects

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Border Drill Operation Sector 4, Katsina said it seized various goods with Duty Paid Value (DPV) worth N3.2 billion from January 2020 to date. Aliyu Mohammed, the sector coordinator, Border Drill Operation Sector 4, Katsina,....

June 9, 2020 No Responses

Lagos APC Bans Justice Forum, Mandate Group, Others

The Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) has announced the dissolution of all political groups within the All Progressives Party (APC) in the state. The 27-member GAC, the highest decision-making organ of the party in the state, announced the dissolution on Tu...

June 9, 2020 No Responses

Mother Of 13 Gives Birth To Quadruplets In Zaria

A 34-year-old housewife, Hauwa’u Sulaiman, of No. 70 Alfadarai in Zaria, also a mother of 13, gave birth to a set of quadruplets at the Gambo Sawaba General Hospital, Zaria, on Friday, June 5.Sulaiman told the News Agency of Nigeria...

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 ...

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...