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January 17, 2017 No Responses

Attack on UNIMAID worrisome, dangerous development, says Atiku

Former Vice President and Chieftain for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar condemns the suicide bomb attack on a mosque at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), describing it at as a dangerous development. In a statement released by...

January 17, 2017 No Responses

Investors get N30b unclaimed dividends as SEC extends free registration period

Over N30 Billion has so far been paid to investors in the Nigerian capital market from the backlog of unclaimed dividend, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said. Meanwhile, to further reduce the unclaimed dividends profile and curb its...

January 17, 2017 one Response

Customs zone C records N4.7b seizures in 2016

For the year 2016, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘C’ Owerri recorded seizures of three hundred and seven (307) contraband worth four billion, seven hundred and fifty-six million, two hundred and seventy-seven tho...

January 17, 2017 No Responses

Chibok Girls: Minister, BBOG group, others in Sambisa Forest

The Ministers of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali and the convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili yesterday participated in a search sorties for missing Chibok girls in Sambisa. Another me...

January 17, 2017 No Responses

NLNG’s vessel discharges 13,000 tonnes of LPG at Lagos Jetty

The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) at the weekend successfully discharged 13,000 tonnes of LPG to Lagos Jetty as part of measures to curtail reported scarcity across the country. A statement issued by NLNG’s General Manager (External Relations), Kud...

January 16, 2017 No Responses

Dangote Truck Assembly Plant debuts in Lagos, targets neighbouring countries, 3,000 jobs, 10,000 units per year

Foremost entrepreneur, Aliko Dangote, has taken advantage of the ongoing scarcity of Foreign Exchange (FOREX) in Nigeria to establish multi-million dollar truck assembly plant in Lagos State. The project is expected to generate 3,000 jobs. According to Dangote...

January 16, 2017 No Responses

NPA pledges quarterly parley with stakeholders, seeks information on tariffs in West, Central Africa

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authourity (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala Usman has pledged the commitment of the Authourity to interact more with stakeholders in 2017, “so as to be more in tune with happenings at the various ports”. To...

January 16, 2017 No Responses

FG warns against sales of SIP forms

No scheme under the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIP) attracts an application fee. Also on Sunday, the Federal Government advised Nigerians to refuse paying anyone money, adding that five more states would be joing in the implementa...

January 16, 2017 No Responses

Maritime operations: 50 firms bid for NNPC’s boat supply contract

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Sunday in Abuja said 50 companies had submitted bids for the supply of sea worthy tug boats on charter basis. NNPC, in a statement by its Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division,...

January 16, 2017 No Responses

Kaduna targets N50.2b IGR in 2017

The Chairman of the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KDIRS), Muktar Ahmed, said the state government generated more than N17 billion as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2016. He told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna on Sunday that...

January 16, 2017 No Responses

Atiku extols supreme sacrifices of Nigerian military

Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar commends the remarkable, incredible, unflagging and patriotic sacrifices of our military personnel in the line of duty and in the defence of the country. The former Vice Presid...

January 16, 2017 No Responses

NPA boss visits widow of LASTMA officer, tasks Police on Killers

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authourity (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala Usman has appealed to the Nigeria Police to intensify efforts to arrest killers of an official of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority (LASTMA), Mr. Surajudeen Bakare. The.....

January 16, 2017 No Responses

NPA Photo News

L-R : Acting President of NAGAFF, Mr. Increase Uche; Founder of NAGAFF, Chief Boniface Aniebonam, Managing Director Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman; NPA Executive Director, Marine & Operations,Dr. Sokonte Davies when NPA Management paid a court...

January 16, 2017 No Responses

Ahmed Hussen: From Somali refugee to immigration minister in Canada

By Jessica Murphy, BBC News, Toronto – Ahmed Hussen came to Canada from Somalia as a refugee. Now he’s the new minister of immigration. Along with thousands of compatriots, Ahmed Hussen fled war-ravaged Somalia for a better life in Canada....