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August 30, 2019 No Responses

Obaseki Seeks Concerted Action Against Crude Oil Theft

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, who is the Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee of the National Economic Council on Crude Oil Theft, Prevention and Control, has called on stakeholders to join forces and work towards eradicating the...

August 29, 2019 No Responses

Nigeria Reduces Visa Fee For US Citizens

The Interior Minister, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has approved reduction in Visa charges payable by U.S. citizens in line with reciprocity policy as recommended by a committee set up to conduct due diligence. The minister, who announced this in a statement...

August 29, 2019 No Responses

“Nigeria-Benin Border Partially Closed Due To Smuggling Activities”

President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the partial closure of Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic to the massive smuggling activities, especially of rice, taking place on that corridor. The Nigerian leader gave the reason during an audience granted his B...

August 29, 2019 No Responses

Foreign-Owned Businesses Attacked In South Africa

The Nigeria Union has advised Nigerians leaving in South Africa to avoid Pretoria Central Business District (CBD) until the Police Authority certify the area safe for foreign nationals. The Nigerian Union in South Africa (NUSA) gave the advice in the...

August 29, 2019 No Responses

Zenith Bank Explains Education Loan For Children

Nigeria’s leading financial institution, Zenith Bank Plc, has introduced the Zenith Children’s Account (ZECA) Education Loan to assist parents pay their children/ wardsschool fees as the new school session begins. The loan offering, which is disbursed dire...

August 28, 2019 No Responses

SIFAX Group Consolidates Operation With 25 New Trucks, Four Harbour Cranes, Others

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail. com To sustain faster turnaround of its operations, Sifax Group has placed order for 24 new trucks, four mobile harbor cranes and other strategic equipments.Already, a subsidiary of the Group, Skyway Aviation Handling Company...

August 28, 2019 No Responses

Pius Odubu Emerges New NDDC Board Chairman

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday appointed a 16-member new Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In a statement in Abuja, Olusegun Adekunle, Permanent Secretary, General Services Office of the Secretary to the Government of the...

August 28, 2019 No Responses

Fidelity Bank Empowers Over 200 Youth With Entrepreneurial Skills In Kano

Consistent with its unbridled commitment to youth empowerment in Nigeria, Fidelity Bank Plc, in partnership with Gazelle Academy and Bayero University Kano at the weekend concluded an entrepreneurship training programme for over 200 students in Kano State. &nb...

August 28, 2019 No Responses

Lagos Assembly Probes Ambode’s Purchase Of 820 Buses

The Lagos State House of Assembly has set up an ad hoc committee to probe the purchase of 820 mass transit buses by the Akinwunmi Ambode-led administration allegedly without budgetary approval. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the committee...

August 28, 2019 No Responses

Dakuku Lauds Buhari’s Economic Agenda

Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has said that the economic programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is not only succeeding, but it is also reliable. Dakuku stated this...

August 27, 2019 No Responses

Tony Elumelu In Japan, To Address Conference On African Development

Tony O. Elumelu, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation and the Chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA), will speak at the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), taking place in Yokohama, Japan from August 28– 30,...