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January 10, 2019 No Responses

Mercedes-Benz Delivers 2.3m Cars In 2018

Despite various challenges in 2018, Mercedes-Benz continued to be the leading premium automobile brand in terms of unit sales. Within the year 2018, the company with the three-pointed star increased its global car sales to 2,310,185 units, its eighth consecutive...

January 9, 2019 No Responses

Boeing Delivers 806 Planes In 2018

For the year 2018, Boeing Co delivered a record 806 aircraft as it overcame supplier woes, retaining the title of the world’s biggest planemaker for the seventh straight year. The company’s shares rose as much as 3.9 percent to $340.90...

January 9, 2019 No Responses

CBN Boosts Forex Market With $210m

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has continued its intervention in the inter-bank sector of the Foreign Exchange market by injecting another sum of $210 million into the forex market. In the forex trading on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, the...

January 8, 2019 No Responses

World Bank President Steps Down

World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim has made the surprise announcement that he is stepping down after six years in the post. His resignation will take effect from 1 February. Mr Kim, 59, was not due to leave until 2022,...

January 8, 2019 No Responses

Buhari Meets Borno Leaders

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja met a delegation from Borno, and restated his administration’s unwavering determination to equip the military to overcome the insurgency in the northeast. The President also told the delegation led by Gov. Kashim...

January 8, 2019 No Responses

Atiku Pledges To Complete Abandoned Federal Projects In Kogi

The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Alh. Abubakar Atiku, has promised to complete all abandoned federal projects in Kogi, if elected president in the coming election. Atiku made the promise on Monday in Lokoja while addressing a...

January 7, 2019 No Responses

Air Peace Begins Direct Flights To Banjul

Air Peace will begin non-stop flights from Lagos to Banjul, The Gambia from Monday, January 7, 2019. In a statement issued on Sunday by Corporate Communications Manager, Chris Iwarah, the airline said it would no longer route its Lagos-Banjul flights...

January 7, 2019 No Responses

Jennifer Atiku: PDP ‘ll Ensure Uninterrupted Education Calendar

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will ensure an uninterrupted education calendar if elected in 2019, Mrs Jennifer Atiku, wife of the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, has said. Speaking at the flag-off of the Edo Central S...

January 5, 2019 No Responses

Nigeria Injects $210m In First Forex Intervention In 2019

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday, January 4, 2019, made its first intervention in the inter-bank sector of the Foreign Exchange market for 2019 with a total sum of $210 million injected into the wholesale segment and other...

January 2, 2019 No Responses

Nigeria’s Oil Output Hits 2.09m Barrels

The Federal Republic of Nigeria has explained that the country’s crude oil daily production is up by 9 per cent to about 2.09 million barrels. According to Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Group Managing Director Dr. Maikanti Baru, ...

January 2, 2019 No Responses

Tony Elumelu Foundation Opens Applications for 5th Cycle of $100m Entrepreneurship Programme

The Tony Elumelu Foundation, the leading African-funded and founded philanthropy committed to empowering African entrepreneurs, is now accepting applications for the 2019 cohort of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The Programme is a 10-year, $100...

January 2, 2019 No Responses

Photo News

Recipient of Baby of the Year award for 2019, at Nyanya General Hospital, Baby Dominion Ameh. Representative of Her Excellency, wife of the President, Dr. Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, Dr. Hajo Sani, cuddling Baby Dominion Ameh, flanked on the right ...

January 2, 2019 No Responses

Five Years of Spreading Luck – Everyone Needs a Little Help

In business the role luck plays in success and personal achievement is rarely discussed. If luck is mentioned, it is done with slight condescension, and usually dismissed as a product of hard work, not deserving significant attention. While hard work...

January 2, 2019 No Responses

WORLD DAY OF PEACE MESSAGE OF POPE FRANCIS

Good politics is at the service of peace 1. “Peace be to this house!” In sending his disciples forth on mission, Jesus told them: “Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’ And if a son of...