Category: News

Senate Wades Into Bonny Island’s Mysterious Deaths
June 9, 2020 No Responses

Senate Wades Into Bonny Island’s Mysterious Deaths

The Senate has mandated its Committee on Health (Primary and Communicable Disease) to meet with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) following the number of mysterious deaths recorded in Bonny Island, Rivers State.  The upper chamber while urging the...
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Tony Attah, MD/CEO, Nigeria LNG Limited’s Speech During A Visit To Governor Nyesom Wike
June 9, 2020 No Responses

Tony Attah, MD/CEO, Nigeria LNG Limited’s Speech During A Visit To Governor Nyesom Wike

I must start by offering the good wishes of the Nigeria LNG family and our sincere appreciation for the tremendous efforts of the Government of Rivers State, under your astute leadership, in fighting the onslaught of the Coronavirus pandemic in...
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ILO Seeks Release Of 150,000 Seafarers Trapped On Board Ships
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 M...
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MTN Nigeria Explains Completion Of N100b Commercial Paper
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...
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Customs Confiscates N3.2b Items, Arrest Eight Suspects
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,....
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Lagos APC Bans Justice Forum, Mandate Group, Others
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...
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Mother Of 13 Gives Birth To Quadruplets In Zaria
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...
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Opinion: Racism Seeks To Drive Us Apart But There Are Rays Of Hope
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 ...
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World Bank Begins APPEALS Project Implementation Review
June 9, 2020 No Responses

World Bank Begins APPEALS Project Implementation Review

The 5thWorld Bank Implementation Support Mission (ISM) of the Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Support (APPEALS) Project commenced on Monday online across all Project Implementation Units (PIUs).  Scheduled to end Thursday, June 11...
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Coronavirus Cases In Nigeria Now 12,801
June 9, 2020 No Responses

Coronavirus Cases In Nigeria Now 12,801

The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC)  has recorded 315 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the  total number of infections in the country to 12,801. The NCDC announced this on Monday through its official Twitter handle, noting that as at Ju...
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Shippers’ Council, Stakeholders Harp On Sustained Cargo Evacuation From Seaports By Rail
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...
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NLC Canvasses Global Standards For Food Safety
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,...
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FG Supports 6, 457 South-West Maize Farmers With N1b Inputs
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,....
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Obasanjo Seeks Increased Food Production
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...
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