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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. Organised under the...

August 28, 2019 No Responses

NNPC, Total To Grow Production, Reserves

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Total Nigeria have expressed their readiness to work together to grow daily national crude oil and gas production and reserves to meet the national target of 40 billion barrels. Group Managing Director of....

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 28, 2019 No Responses

NPA Photo News

The representative of the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and Assistant General Manager, Operations, NPA, Ayodele Durowaiye (2nd left) and other technocrats and stakeholders at the ongoing 12th Nigeria International Maritime Ports and Termina...

August 27, 2019 No Responses

Kenya Exports First Crude Oil

Kenya has exported its first batch of crude oil. President Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off the crude shipment from the port of Mombasa on Monday. According to BBC, the development is being described as historic and an important step on the...

August 27, 2019 No Responses

CBN To Nigerians: Beware Of Fraudulent Loan Offers

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned Nigerians to beware of Fraudulent loans being offered to the unsuspecting public by fraudsters on social media. In a statement, on Monday, the apex bank said such loans are fake and not...

August 27, 2019 No Responses

SEC To Engage Stakeholders On Master Plan Implementation

The Securities and Exchange Commission,(SEC )is to engage relevant stakeholders on the implementation of some initiatives of its 10 year Capital Market Master Plan Specifically, the engagements would be on E-Dividend registration and Multiple Accounts re...

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,...

August 27, 2019 No Responses

NYSC Arrests Ten Fake Corps Members

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it has uncovered ten persons who attempted to enrol with fake certificates during registration in some of its orientation camps. NYSC spokesperson, Adenike Adeyemi, said in a statement, three of the culprits who...

August 27, 2019 No Responses

Hyundai Unveils Hydrogen World

Hyundai has opened its Hyundai Hydrogen World in Shanghai, China. This is an exhibition hall dedicated to the Fuel-Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV). It displays the automaker’s Nexo FCEV model, hydrogen powertrain technologies as well, which the company por...

August 27, 2019 No Responses

With Love From Yokohama, By Femi Adesina

Love in Tokyo is the title of a 1966 film that became a hit at the box office. Since then, when men and women, boys and girls show affection to one another publicly, you often hear “love in Tokyo.” But...

August 26, 2019 No Responses

NNPC Records 77 Per Cent Increase In Pipeline Vandalism

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has recorded 77 per cent rise in cases of oil pipeline vandalism in its network of pipeline infrastructure across the country in June 2019. The corporation’s Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR) fo...

August 26, 2019 No Responses

Regional Integration Tops Agenda As Nigeria Host Global Maritime Security Conference

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com — The 2019 Global Maritime Security Conference (GMSC) is to hold October 7th—9th, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria. Put together by Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety ...