Adama Barrow to declare self Gambia president

Adama Barrow to declare self Gambia president

(BBC) The Gambia’s President-elect, Adama Barrow, has told the BBC he will declare himself president on 18 January despite incumbent Yahya Jammeh’s rejection of the election result. He said his team was preparing for his inauguration and he urged Mr...
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Senate rejects Magu as EFCC chairman

Senate rejects Magu as EFCC chairman

Citing security report, the Senate on Thursday rejected the nomination of Ibrahim Magu as Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Spokesperson of the Senate, Aliyu Abdullahi, who emerged from a closed-door meeting where Mr. Magu’s confir...
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Buhari presents N7.2tri Budget for 2017

Buhari presents N7.2tri Budget for 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presented a N7.298 trillion 2017 budget before the joint session of the National Assembly. The presentation was made in Abuja with members of the senate and House of Representatives in joint session. President Buhari exp...
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Jaguar Land Rover recognized as one of Africa’s best brands

Jaguar Land Rover recognized as one of Africa’s best brands

Jaguar Land Rover South Africa and sub-Sahara Africa has been recognised as one of Africa’s top brands, at the World Brand Congress awards of 2016. The awards ceremony took place in Mauritius, one of the markets Jaguar Land Rover operates...
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Customs intercepts truck with adulterated diesel products

Customs intercepts truck with adulterated diesel products

The Nigeria Customs Service ((NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU),  Zone ‘C’ Owerri has intercepted a truck suspected of carrying adulterated diesel product. According to the Customs Area Controller in charge of the unit, Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba, t...
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NSE admits N6.3b Wema Fund SPV Bond

NSE admits N6.3b Wema Fund SPV Bond

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has announced the Listing by Introduction of N6,295,000,000 Series 1:7-Year 18.50% Fixed Rate Bond Due (2023) under the N50,000,000,000 Wema Funding SPV Plc Debt Issuance Programme.   Commenting on the listing, Oscar N. Onye...
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Chevron cancels $1.9B FPSO order

Chevron cancels $1.9B FPSO order

Chevron North Sea Limited has canceled its order for a Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) unit at South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries. The shipbuilding contract, signed in April 2013, was valued at KRW 2.157 trillion (around USD 1.85 billion)...
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Kia gets two ‘good design’ awards

Kia gets two ‘good design’ awards

Kia Motors has won two 2016 GOOD DESIGN awards, for the Telluride Concept and the production Cadenza sedan, in the program’s ‘Transportation’ category. This is the seventh consecutive year in which the Korean manufacturer has received GOOD DESIGN awards,...
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NLNG completes $12m USP scheme, commissions UNIMAID engineering laboratory

NLNG completes $12m USP scheme, commissions UNIMAID engineering laboratory

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has completed one of its flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes, the University Support Programme (USP), with the commissioning of the sixth $2 million engineering laboratory at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID...
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Lagos records 246 murder cases, 162 rape  in one year

Lagos records 246 murder cases, 162 rape in one year

Not less than 246 persons were murdered in Lagos between December 2015 and November 2016. Also within the period, 542 vehicles were stolen and 486 armed robbery suspects arrested, 162 rape/defilement cases reported  and 51 kidnapped cases were recorded while....
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NIMASA reiterates support for amnesty programme

NIMASA reiterates support for amnesty programme

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has reiterated its commitment to Presidential Amnesty Programme as part of measures to ensure proper rehabilitation and reintegration of the ex-agitators in the Niger Delta Region. The Director Ge...
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Ministers lauds Academy Press N2b investment in modern equipment

Ministers lauds Academy Press N2b investment in modern equipment

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has lauded the Lagos-based printers Academy Press Plc for showing great confidence in the country’s economy through the investment of N2billion in acquiring modern equipment within one year. T...
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First Bank explains FirstStars Reality TV Show

First Bank explains FirstStars Reality TV Show

In September 2015, First Bank of Nigeria Limited launched FirstStars,  a premier filmmaking competitive reality TV show where Nigerian youths were given the opportunity to project their creative skills in directing, producing, art directing, script writing an...
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Gambia security forces ‘seize election commission HQ’

Gambia security forces ‘seize election commission HQ’

The Gambia’s security forces have taken over the headquarters of the electoral commission, its chairman says, as the country’s president refuses to accept his loss in recent elections. Alieu Momar Njai told the BBC that staff were barred from enter...
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