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October 25, 2024 No Responses

NIMASA To Stakeholders: Dockworkers Registration Now Mandatory

The management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has advised International Oil Companies, terminal and jetty operators, and all other companies involved in stevedoring in the country to refrain from engaging unregistered dockworkers.According to NIMASA, all stakeholders,...

October 25, 2024 No Responses

NCDMB, Shell JV Partners Donate Engineering Studio, ICT Hub To FUTO

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), with its joint venture (JV) partners, on Thursday unveiled world-class engineering design studios and an information and communication technology (ICT...

October 25, 2024 No Responses

FG Restricts Ministers To Three-Vehicle Convoys

As part of the cost-cutting measures of his administration, President Bola Tinubu has restricted ministers, and heads of departments and agencies to a maximum of three vehicles in their official convoys. “No additional vehicles will be assigned to them ...

October 25, 2024 No Responses

CNG: Stakeholders Laud NAJA’s Capacity Building Initiative

Key stakeholders in the Nigerian automobile industry have commended the Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) for its initiative to organise a Training/Capacity Building Workshop on the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) scheme of the Federal Government.Some o...

October 24, 2024 No Responses

NNPC Reacts To Helicopter Crash

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited(NNPCL) has confirmed that it hired the helicopter that crashed into the river in Rivers State on Thursday.NNPCL in a statement issued by its Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Olufemi Soneye, on Thursday...

October 24, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Customs Unveils Unified Management System

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has launched B’Odogwu, a new Unified Customs Management System, starting with a pilot phase in Lagos at Port & Terminal Multi-Services Limited (PTML).While addressing Journalists at PTML Command on Wednesday, 23 Octo...

October 24, 2024 No Responses

Microsoft Harps On AI As New Report Highlights 600m Cyber Attacks Per Day

Commercial Solutions Area Director and CTO at Microsoft South Africa, Colin Baumgart, has identified Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a pivotal ally in the fight against cybercrime.Baumgart explained that AI’s ability to analyse vast amounts of data at li...

October 24, 2024 No Responses

Meet Sunday Dare, Tinubu’s New Special Adviser On Public Communication And Orientation

Sunday Akin Dare, appointed as the Special Adviser on Public Communication and Orientation by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, on October 23, 2024, served as the Nigerian Minister of Youth & Sports from 2019 to 2023.He previously held the position...

October 24, 2024 No Responses

New Vatican Ambassador Arrives Nigeria

His Excellency, the Most Reverend Michael F. Crotty, appointed on Tuesday, 16 July, 2024, by His Holiness, Pope Francis, has arrived in Nigeria at the Nunciature/Vatican-Holy See Embassy in Abuja.

October 24, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Drops Charges Against Binance Executive

The Federal government has dropped all charges against an executive at Binance Holdings, Tigran Gambaryan on health grounds. Gambaryan has been facing a money laundering trial from detention since April. A Counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Com...

October 24, 2024 No Responses

Oyetola, 30 Others Survive Cabinet Shake-Up

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday rejigged his cabinet, sacked five ministers, redeployed ten and appointed seven fresh nominees as ministers to replace the sacked ones. Tinubu appointed 48 ministers in August 2023, three months after his inauguration. ...

October 23, 2024 No Responses

Akwa Ibom Announces N80,000 Minimum Wage

Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State, on Wednesday, announced a new minimum wage of N80,000 for state government workers.The Commissioner for Information in the state, Ini Ememobong, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday.Mr Ememobong explained that ...

October 23, 2024 No Responses

Tinubu Sacks Five Ministers

President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday sacked five of his ministers.He also re-assigned 10 ministers to new ministerial portfolios and appointed seven new ministers for Senate confirmation.Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, appointed 48 minist...

October 23, 2024 No Responses

Shippers Council Seeks Amendment Of Act

The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Pius Akutah, on Wednesday described the agency’s 1978 Act as obsolete.According to Akutah, the proposed amendment will align the agency with modern trend and development.Speaking at the Council he...