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July 17, 2019 No Responses

Onne Customs Collects N54.1b Revenue In Six Months

The Nigeria Customs Service, Port Harcourt Area II Command Onne Port has collected a total of ₦54,129,704,653.73 between January and June 2019 with seizures worth N443, 304,711 in the last six months. Comptroller Galadima Saidu explained on Tuesday that the...

July 17, 2019 No Responses

VW Declares 974,400 Sales In June

Volkswagen Group in June 2019 recorded 1.6 per cent increase in its global sales, amounting to 974,400 units. The company explained that the number is mostly driven by 15 per cent growth in the Chinese market, where the Volkswagen Group...

July 16, 2019 No Responses

Ceat Tyre Revamps Capacity, Exports To 100 Countries

By citybusinessnews@yahoo.com – Ceat tyre has lined up more investment to ramp up manufacturing capacity across its plants over the next three to four years. Ceat currently exports tyres to around 100 countries. Already, the company has conso...

July 16, 2019 No Responses

Nigeria Faults Isha Sesay’s Book On Chibok Girls

The Nigerian Government has faulted the book, “Beneath The Tamarind Tree”, written by ex-CNN Journalist and now a Child Rights activist, Isha Sesay, on the kidnapping of 270 Chibok school girls. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media...

July 16, 2019 No Responses

Report: Women More Vulnerable To Injuries In Road Crashes Than Men

Women wearing seat belts are significantly more likely to suffer injury in frontal car crashesthan their belted male counterparts, according to a US study. The study, published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention, found belted female auto occupants have 7...

July 15, 2019 No Responses

Firms Unveil Cement Carrier Alliance

Germany-based Baltrader and US-based United Bulk Carriers (UBC) have entered into a cooperation agreement to jointly market their respective fleets of pneumatic cement carriers. The two companies will work together under the newly launched Cement Carrier Allia...

July 15, 2019 No Responses

NIS Generates N39.06b Local Revenue

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) generated N39.06 billion in 2018 as against N35.72 billion it generated as local revenue in 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said. The bureau said this in its “Immigration Statistics of 2018”, obtained fro...

July 15, 2019 No Responses

Lagos Cabinet: Sanwo-Olu Picks Tunji Bello, Omotoso, 23 Others

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has nominated 25 persons for commissioner and special adviser. According to the state government, the nominees are the first batch to be considered by the House of Assembly. Among them are two-time commission...

July 15, 2019 No Responses

Experts Raise Concerns Over Brake, Tyre Emissions

With the environmental pollution reaching alarming levels, the UKgovernment’s Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG) identified emission from tyres and brakes as a prime contributor to the declining air quality. It mentioned that emissions from car brakes and t...

July 15, 2019 No Responses

Daimler Trucks Tests New Digital Vehicle Systems

Daimler Trucks has taken a new initiative to test and develop the new digital operating menus and apps. The German CV manufacturer has involved the truck drivers to test the digital system on-board the new Mercedes-Benz Actros. The company has...

July 15, 2019 No Responses

Singapore Maintains Position As World’s Top Shipping Location

Singapore has topped the 2019 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development (ISCD) Index for the sixth year running, the Baltic Exchange said. The index provides an independent ranking of the performance of the world’s largest cities that offer por...

July 14, 2019 No Responses

Shell Nigeria Restates Commitment To Economic Growth

Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited Joint Venture is to sustain programmes that would galvanise the economic growth of Delta State, Igho Weli, SPDC General Manager, External Relations, has said. In a statement on Saturday, Weli e...

July 14, 2019 No Responses

Dana Air Apologizes To Passengers Over Flight Disruptions

Dana Air has apologized to its customers over the disruption of their flights on different routes Thursday , Friday and Saturday. The airline in statement issued by its media and Communications Manager Kingsley Ezenwa explained that some of the airline&#...

July 14, 2019 No Responses

Volkswagen To Invest $1.12b In Battery Production Plant

Volkswagen AG says it is investing 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion) to set up a battery production plant in Germany. Chief executive Herbert Diess said Tuesday that the factory is part of the company’s effort to electrify its vehicles. He...