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August 10, 2017 No Responses

Mercedes-Benz records 1.3m sales, begins Q3 with double-digit growth

Renowned automobile firm, Mercedes-Benz has sustained its successful streak of double-digit growth since the beginning of the year. Already, the firm has commenced the third quarter with a new sales record of 181,791 vehicles sold in July. This now...

August 10, 2017 No Responses

Obaseki restates commitment to Primary Health Care in Edo

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has restated his administration’s commitment to a strong primary health care system that will deliver quality services to Edo People. According to him, the health care system in Nigeria would be...

August 10, 2017 No Responses

Photo News

L-R: Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC),Boboye Oyeyemi and Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello during NSC visit to FRSC head office in Abuja

August 10, 2017 No Responses

Hong Kong issues block exemption for liner VSAs

Hong Kong has granted a block exemption order (BEO) for vessel sharing agreements (VSAs) in the liner shipping industry. The country’s competition commission issued the order on August 8 in response to an application received from the Hong Kong Liner Sh...

August 10, 2017 No Responses

GOCOP gets new executive

The Publisher of The Eagle Online, Dotun Oladipo, has been elected President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers. The election was conducted on Wednesday at Adna Hotel, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos. Oladipo is the current General Secretary of the...

August 9, 2017 No Responses

Customs impounds 12 new Toyota LandCruiser, 17 Hilux, others worth N1.3billion

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com – Thirty-seven new vehicles allegedly smuggled into the country through land borders has been impounded by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Briefing Journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, Comptroller General o...

August 9, 2017 No Responses

Researchers deploy SAH technology to speed up multiplication of cassava planting materials

Scientists working on cassava breeding are now using the Semi-Autotrophic Hydroponics (SAH) technology to rev up the propagation of clean cassava planting materials. The SAH involves the use of modified soil which holds plant roots in planting pots with litt...

August 9, 2017 No Responses

NECA unveils e-leaning scheme to boost entrepreneurship

In its continued endeavour to join hands with Government to address the time bomb of high unemployment among Nigerian youths which was recently put at 80% by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) in partnership...

August 9, 2017 No Responses

Edo to set up export processing centres

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has announced plans by his administration to set up Export Processing Zones in the state. He made the announcement when members of the Edo State Exporters Cluster, paid him a courtesy visit...

August 9, 2017 No Responses

Customs in Tincan Island sets fresh agenda for revenue generation

As part of measures put in place by the Tincan Island Command to remain a force to reckon with in Revenue collection, the Customs Area Controller (CAC) COMPT. BASHAR YUSUF has met in different sessions with the Officers in-charge of...

August 9, 2017 No Responses

Pope Francis ‘deeply saddened’ by attack on Catholic Church in Nigeria

The Pope is “deeply saddened” for the victims of the “violent attack” that took place in the Catholic Church of St. Philip in Ozubulu, Anambra State, in southern Nigeria yesterday, Sunday, August 6, 2017. During morning Mass, at least 12...

August 9, 2017 No Responses

Bishops’ conference condemns Catholic Church attack

The President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Most Rev Ignatius Ayau Kaigama has condemned in strong terms the recent attacks on St Philip’s Catholic Church in Ozubulu in Nnewi diocese of Anambra State. In a recent interview at the...

August 9, 2017 No Responses

NSE Photo News

L – R shows Haruna Jalo-Waziri, Executive Director, Capital Markets, NSE; Oscar N. Onyema, OON, Chief Executive Officer, NSE; Mr. Samuel Ocheho, President, FMDA; Tinuade Awe, General Counsel and Head, Regulation, NSE and Ade Bajomo, Executive Director,...