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April 4, 2024 No Responses

Customs Declares ₦1.3tri Revenue In Q1

For the first quarter of 2024, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) generated N1.3trillion revenue. Briefing Journalists on Wednesday, the Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, explained that over 572 seizures were made with a duty-paid value of N10bn. He said,...

April 4, 2024 No Responses

Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road: Lagos Engages Land Stakeholders

Top officials from the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, led by the Commissioner for the Ministry, Mrs. Toke Benson-Awoyinka have sought the patience and understanding of residents of Iru area of the State, particularly those that would be affected...

April 3, 2024 No Responses

FIRS Apologises To Christians

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has apologised to Christians over its controversial Easter message which has stirred controversy. In its Easter message to Christians in Nigeria, the FIRS had shared a flier showing a Point of Sale (PoS) machine....

April 3, 2024 No Responses

Transcorp Power Declares N3.13 Dividend

Transcorp Power Plc (Transcorp Power) has reported N453 billion profit before tax for the year ended December. 31, 2023. Mr Stanley Chikwendu, Group Company Secretary, Transcorp Power, said this indicated a surge of 85 per cent, when compared with N439...

April 3, 2024 No Responses

Transactions On NGX Decline By N25b

The value of transactions on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) dropped by 13.81 per cent on Tuesday after two days of Easter break. Consequently, the market capitalisation shed N25 billion or 0.04 per cent to close at N59.095 trillion, as against...

April 2, 2024 No Responses

Okomu Oil Palm Trains Community Representatives On Leveraging Presence Of Multinational In An Environment

Members of communities playing host to multinational companies have been urged to leverage the presence of these companies for the advancement of their lives and that of their communities. This was the thrust of the lecture at the bi-annual community...

April 2, 2024 No Responses

Okomu Oil Palm Photo News

Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Officer, Efe Emmanuel John-Onyijen (2nd left) explaining to the community representatives the reason for Okomu’s forest preservation.

April 2, 2024 No Responses

Chevron Charters First Electric Tanker For Maritime Customers

Chevron is chartering its first hybrid electric bunker tanker, a vessel that fuels other ships, from V-Bunkers, the Singaporean bunker arm of energy and commodities company Vitol. According to Chevron, the tanker, owned and operated by V-bunkers, arrived at Si...

April 2, 2024 No Responses

Seplat Energy COO: Community, Empowerment Critical To Energy Sector Stability

The execution of Corporate Social Investment (CSI) programmes in oil and gas producing communities as well as empowerment of their people is capable of promoting stability in the energy sector and ensuring security of critical national assets, Mr. Samson Ezugw...

April 2, 2024 No Responses

Obajana Multiple Crash: FRSC Boss Orders Investigation, Prosecution Of Drivers

Perturbed by the scores of road users that were killed as a result of the multiple road traffic crash that occurred on Sunday 31 March, 2024 at Obajana market in Kogi State, the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC),...

April 2, 2024 No Responses

Gunmen Abduct Students In Delta State

Gunmen have abducted an unspecified number of students travelling along the East-West road in Ughelli, Delta State. According to the spokesman of the Delta State Police Command, Edafe Bright, the occupants of the vehicle may have been students who wer...

April 1, 2024 No Responses

Gunmen Rob, Set Ablaze Luxury Bus With 59 Passengers On Board

It was a frightening narrow escape on Good Friday night for travellers on board an Abakaliki-bound 59-seater luxury bus, when armed robbers attacked them at Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, and set the vehicle ablaze with all the passengers on board.The dare-devil...

April 1, 2024 No Responses

Pope Francis Urges Peace In Easter Message

Pope Francis urged the world to resist “the logic of weapons” in his Easter message at the Vatican on Sunday, easing growing health fears as he greeted thousands of Catholics. The 87-year-old’s “Urbi et Orbi” (To the City and the...

April 1, 2024 No Responses

2023: Okomu Oil Palm Reports 44% Profit Growth

For the 2023 financial year, Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc has reported a pre-tax profit of N33.84 billion, representing a 44% growth from N23.52 billion in 2022. According to the group’s audited financial statement for 2023, it recorded a revenue...