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May 7, 2022 No Responses

69,828 Candidates Sit For 2022 Entrance Exams Into Unity Schools

No fewer than 69,828 pupils on Saturday sat for the 2022 National Common Entrance Examination (NECO) for admission into the 110 federal government colleges across the country. Malam Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, disclosed this when he led some...

May 7, 2022 No Responses

Aviation Minister Appeals To Domestic Airlines On Planned Operations Shutdown

The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, has appealed to Nigerian airlines to suspend the planned shutdown of operations from Monday over the high cost of aviation fuel from N190 to N700 per litre. Sirika, who made the appeal...

May 7, 2022 No Responses

France LNG Shipping Secures LNGC Charter Deal With EDF

French ship-owning company, France LNG Shipping has signed another long-term charter contract for a new LNG carrier with EDF LNG Shipping, a subsidiary of Electricité de France. According to World Maritime News, South Korean shipyard, Hyundai Samho...

May 7, 2022 No Responses

Minister Advocates Grants, Tax Holidays For Creative Industry

Minister of State for FCT, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, has solicited various waivers, grants, tax holidays, rebates and other related incentives as part of measures to boost the creative industry. Aliyu made the call while delivering a lecture at the...

May 6, 2022 No Responses

NPA Receives 14 Ships Laden With Petrol, Frozen Fish, Wheat, Others At Lagos Ports

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on Friday said 14 ships had arrived the ports and were waiting to berth with petrol, frozen fish, bulk salt, bulk wheat, base oil, ethanol and bulk sugar. According to NPA, 20 other ships had...

May 6, 2022 No Responses

Benue Assembly Approves Ortom’s N41.39b Loan Request

Benue House of Assembly on Friday approved request of Gov. Samuel Ortom’s loan of N41.39 billion for payment of salary, pension and other emolument arrears. The approval followed a letter of request from the governor to the Assembly which...

May 6, 2022 No Responses

Seaport Offers Incentives To Reduce Vessel Emissions

To reduce vessel emissions, Canada’s Halifax Port Authority (HPA) has joined the World Port Climate Initiative (WPCI) as an incentive provider with the International Association of Ports and Harbours’ (IAPH) Environmental Ship Index (ESI). The HPA joined t...

May 6, 2022 No Responses

Court Remands Two For Allegedly Exhuming Boy’s Corpse

An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded two men in a correctional centre for allegedly being in possession of human head, exhuming and cutting off head of a six-year-old boy. The defendants, Lukuman Kusimo, 55, and Oluwaseyi Olojede, 5...

May 6, 2022 No Responses

Shortage Of Midwives May Increase To One Million By 2030, Says WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that shortage of midwives will trigger an increase of one million by 2030 with serious implications for the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals. Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organsation (WHO) Regiona...

May 6, 2022 No Responses

Okomu Oil, Host Community To Avert Crisis Over Digging Of Trench

The feud between the management of Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc and one of its host communities, Maroghioba, will not escalate into full blown crisis. The assurance was given on Friday by the Iyase of Udo, near Benin, Chief Patrick...

May 6, 2022 No Responses

AfDB Secures $15.6b For Lagos-Abidjan Highway Construction

The president, African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina says the bank has secured 15.6 billion dollars investment for the construction of the Lagos-Abidjan highway. Adesina tweeted this on his twitter handle @akin_adesina obtained by the News Agenc...

May 6, 2022 No Responses

Seplat CEO : ANOH Project, Game Changer For Seplat, Oil, Gas Industry

The completion of Seplat Energy Plc Assa North-Ohaji South project (ANOH) in Imo State, will positively boost supply chain in the nation’s oil and gas industry, Chief Executive Officer(CEO), Seplat Energy Plc, Mr Roger Brown, has said Brown told ...

May 6, 2022 No Responses

Downpour: Candidates Miss 2022 UTME Session, Appeal To JAMB

Many candidates for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Lagos, on Friday, battled an early morning downpour to get to their centres as the 2022 examination got underway. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)-organised ex...

May 6, 2022 No Responses

CBN Governor, Emefiele, Picks N100m APC Presidential Form

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, on Friday, kept mum as farmers across the country bought the N100m presidential nomination and expression of interest forms of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) for him. Operating under the ...