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March 17, 2017 No Responses

NLNG revamps shipping operations, explains strategic deployment of skills, technology

The shipping aspect of Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) is being positioned for emerging market opportunities through a revamped chartering structure designed to optimize available shipping capacity, General Manager in charge of Shipping, Captain Temilola Okesanjo h...

March 17, 2017 No Responses

NIMASA, UK School target sea time for 400 Nigerians

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in partnership with the South Shield Marine School at the South Tyneside College, South Shield, Newcastle in the United Kingdom, is to provide sea time opportunities for about 400 cadets of NIMASA...

March 17, 2017 No Responses

NSE Photo News

L – R: Tinuade Awe, General Counsel & Head, Regulation, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Olumide Orojimi, Head, Corporate Communications Department, NSE; Boluwatiwi Omidiji, CSR Analysts, NSE; Godstime Iwenekhai, Acting Head, Listings Regulation, NSE; ...

March 17, 2017 No Responses

DMO issues more bonds

The Debt Management Office (DMO) has issued more bonds than originally planned at an auction after slowing inflation rate helped it offer debt at lower yields. The DMO said it raised N160 billion at an auction on Wednesday, N30 billion...

March 17, 2017 No Responses

VW executive to remain in U.S. custody until trial next year

Auto News— Oliver Schmidt, the Volkswagen executive incarcerated since January when he tried to return to his native Germany after a Florida vacation, will remain in custody until his trial early next year for 11 felonies tied to the company’s...

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...