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August 21, 2017 No Responses

NISA lauds new cabotage compliance strategy

The recent moves by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to ensure full implementation of the Cabotage Act, 2003 through the New Cabotage Compliance Strategy (NCCS) has continued to receive commendation from Stakeholders. This is coming on...

August 20, 2017 No Responses

Buhari’s Return: A Nation’s Hope Fulfilled, Says Tinubu

All Progressives Congress national stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressed joy at the return of President Muhammadu Buhari to the country after his medical vacation in the United Kingdom, saying the president’s return is a nation’s hope fulfille...

August 20, 2017 No Responses

Resumption: Senate bars PenCom, CBB, ICPC bosses

THE Senate has warned nominees into the leadership position of three Federal Government institutions whose names were recently announced not to resume until their nominations are confirmed in accordance with the provision of the Constitution. The nominees affe...

August 18, 2017 No Responses

FG begins audit of banks’ remittances to CBN

The Federal Government has commenced audit of remittances of its funds into the Treasury Single Account (TSA) by Deposit Money Banks. Speaking in Abuja at a two-day workshop for finance journalists on the TSA and other public financial management...

August 18, 2017 No Responses

Maersk CEO: For now, no reason to order new megaships

There is no incentive to order new ultra large containerships from a cost perspective right now, despite extremely low prices of newbuilding tonnage, Chief Executive Officer of A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S,Søren Skou has said As highlighted by Skou, five ...

August 18, 2017 No Responses

Aisha Buhari condoles with Sierra Leone over landslide

Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has extended a message of condolence to the government and people of Sierra Leone over the disaster caused by a landslide in the Regent region of the country. The message was conveyed...

August 18, 2017 No Responses

Dickens Sanomi Foundation sponsors medical bill of 6 year old Boko Haram victim.

The Dickens Sanomi Foundation has offered to pay the medical bill of Ali Ahmadu, a six year old boy from Borno State, who was run over by Boko Haram terrorists when they invaded Chibok village three years ago. The medical...

August 17, 2017 No Responses

NNPC explains $3b yearly drop in production cost

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has saved the nation a minimum of $3billion yearly from the reduction in the cost of crude oil production. NNPC in a statement explained that the development has driven down the cost of...

August 17, 2017 No Responses

Obaseki partners COREN to check inflated road contracts

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki on Wednesday demonstrated his administration’s commitment to the frugal allocation of the resources accruing to the state by setting up a contact group with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in...

August 17, 2017 No Responses

Road safety management, safer vehicles, others to take centre stage at FRSC annual lecture

Topical issues which bother on the five pillars of the Decade of Action for road safety in Africa will constitute parts of what will be discussed at the 7th annual Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) lecture in Abuja. The...

August 17, 2017 No Responses

Put hate speech on your agenda, Osinbajo tells IPI

The Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo has urged the local organizing committee of International Press Institute (IPI) to consider putting on the agenda of their proposed event the issue of hate speech and its implications for our polity and for...

August 16, 2017 No Responses

Ambode implores NYSC members on community development

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has advised members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to embark on development projects as part of measures to impact positively their host communities. Speaking at the NYSC Orientation Camp during the formal....

August 15, 2017 No Responses

Obaseki to revamp Edo Broadcasting Service, Observer

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Monday paid an unscheduled inspection visit to the state radio and television stations, Edo Broadcasting Service and the Nigerian Observer, publishers of the Observer newspaper titles and hinted that the media....

August 14, 2017 No Responses

School feeding programme in Anambra, Enugu, Ogun, Kaduna, others gulp N6.2billion

Not less than 14 states now benefit from the school feeding programme set up by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. A statement issued by the spokesperson to Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, explained that the Presidency is no...