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March 16, 2017 No Responses

NPA boss pledges competitive tariff regime, actualisation of deep seaports

The proposed competitive tariff regime of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) would place the Agency on a better platform in the sub-region, Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman has said. Addressing a team of Oxford Business Group UK, who paid her a...

March 15, 2017 No Responses

Cassava: Experts brainstorm on challenges, way forward

Still in search of a healing balm, the world’s top cassava experts are in Nigeria to report progress on developing new varieties of cassava with higher yield and nutritional content. The high level meeting commenced on Tuesday at...

March 15, 2017 No Responses

EFCC intercepts N49m at Kaduna Airport

Following a tip off, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kaduna zonal office, on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 intercepted a sum of N49million in five large black 150kg colored BUHU sacks. EFCC head, Media & Publicity, Wilson...

March 15, 2017 No Responses

Obaseki, Okowa eulogise late Ogbemudia

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and his Delta State counterpart, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa have said that the Late Dr Samuel Ogbemudia would be remembered for his numerous contributions to the development of defunct Bendel state. This was as the...

March 15, 2017 No Responses

Atiku endows education fund for Onukaba’s children

Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar has endowed an education fund for the children of his late aide, Dr. Adinoyi-Ojo Onukaba. Onukaba, who died on his way back from former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s 80th ...

March 14, 2017 No Responses

Buhari to Osinbajo: Head delegation on Niger Delta crisis

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday directed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to head a special presidential delegation charged with the task of resolving the crisis in the Niger Delta. Speaking with Journalists on Monday in Abuja, the Special Adviser to the...

March 14, 2017 No Responses

Check-off dues: PTECSSAN faults ZTE Nigeria, alleges anti-labour practices

The leadership of PTECSSAN has blamed ongoing face-off with ZTE Nigeria on alleged anti-labour practices on the part of the company. In a letter sent to the Editor of www.citybusinessnews.com on Tuesday, PTECSSAN said: “For ZTE Management to rush to...

March 14, 2017 No Responses

First Bank canvasses support for sustainable interest in Agriculture

As part of its commitment to support agriculture businesses across the value chain and to play its enabling role in the nation’s drive for economic diversification through agriculture, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, will hold an inaugural agric expo on...

March 14, 2017 No Responses

Obaseki to US Ambassador: We will make Edo an economic hub

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has disclosed that part of his administration’s strategic plan was to ensure that Edo State becomes an economic hub through agricultural and industrial activities. This was as he received the American Ambassador to Nige...

March 13, 2017 No Responses

Lagos to aquire 5,000 airconditioned buses, float N100b transport infrastructure bond

Inline with its three-year Bus Reform Initiative, the Lagos State Government is to introduce over 5000 air-conditioned buses to replace the yellow commercial buses, popularly called Danfo. Under the arrangement, the State Government isto launch public transp...

March 13, 2017 No Responses

Edo, Delta to give Ogbemudia state burial

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has met with the Ogbemudia family on Saturday to pay condolence to the family as well as to discuss plans for the former governor’s state burial. In addition, Edo and Delta states are collaborating...

March 12, 2017 No Responses

130 Nigerian Cadets graduates in Egypt, gets seatime training offer

The Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP), an initiative of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), has once again graduated 130 cadets from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Alexandria, Egypt...

March 12, 2017 No Responses

VW, Tata plot partnership

VW and Tata have agreed to form a strategic partnership to help both companies boost economy car sales in India and emerging markets. VW’s Skoda unit will lead the project to develop components and vehicles. VW is looking for new...

March 11, 2017 No Responses

VW pleads guilty to three felonies in deal to settle U.S. emissions case

(Auto News) The largest automaker in the world is now officially a felon in the United States, but its sentencing will have to wait. Volkswagen Group pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to three felonies under a plea agreement:...