Minister Archives — Page 146 of 166

February 19, 2017 No Responses

FG to open grain reserves

If the prices of food stuff continue to escalate across the country, the Federal Government will open the national grain reserves. Speaking after the inauguration of the management of three Federal Unuversities of Agriculture in Abuja, the Minister of Agriculture...

February 19, 2017 No Responses

UBA Photo News

L-R: Minister of African Integration & Ivoirians of the diaspora, Ally Coulibaly; MD, UBA Cote d’Ivoire, Sarata Kone; Director, Marketing & Corporate Communications, Bola Atta and Minister of Culture & Francophony of Cote d’Ivoire Maurice Banda...

February 18, 2017 No Responses

Nigerian Chamber of Shipping training holds in March

Come Wednesday, March 15 to Friday, March 17, 2017, the Nigerian Chamber of Shipping will hold a three day training programme on the “ABC of Shipping” in Apapa, Lagos. According to an official statement issued by the Chamber, the training,...

February 17, 2017 No Responses

NPA Photo News

L-R: NPA Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Mohammed Bello-Koko; Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman; Deputy President, Nigerian Institute of Management (chartered), NIM, Prof. Olukunle Iyanda, FNIM,; Executive Dir. Engi...

February 17, 2017 No Responses

Capacity building panacea to unemployment, says NIMASA DG

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has averred that human capacity development initiative is a panacea to the growing unemployment rate in the economy. The DG who said this at the...

February 17, 2017 No Responses

NNPC records reduction in Pipeline sabotage

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has recorded a marked reduction in the cases of pipeline sabotage. This was disclosed in the Corporation’s monthly Financial and Operations Report for the month of December 2016 which has just been released....

February 16, 2017 No Responses

Nigeria seeks improved trade relations with U.S.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Africa Business Center Tuesday hosted the Nigerian Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah for a roundtable discussion with U.S. business executives at their office in Washington, D.C. The convers...

February 15, 2017 No Responses

Labour: Increase in BRT, LAGBUS fares is insensitive

Lagos State council of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has condemned increase in the transport fares of BRT and LAGBUS buses. In a statement on Tuesday, TUC described the increase announced by the Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan...

February 15, 2017 No Responses

FG to expand TSA Coverage, says Adeosun

To cover more agencies in 2017, the Federal Government has concluded plans to expand the Treasury Single Account (TSA). Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at the opening of a two-day retreat on the TSA, the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun...

February 15, 2017 No Responses

LCCI Photo News

L-R: from left:- Charles Chijide, Immediate Past President, Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria(OAAN); Kole Ademolegun, Past President, OAAN; Chief Dr Mrs Nike Akande, President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, (LCCI) and Tunde Adedoyin, Preside...

February 14, 2017 No Responses

FG will intensify war against corruption, says Minister

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government will intensify the war against corruption to ensure that all those who abused the collective human rights of Nigerians through mindless looting of the treasury are...

February 13, 2017 No Responses

Whistle-Blower Policy: FG recovers $151m, N8b looted funds

The Federal Government’s Whistle-blower policy has started yielding fruit as it has so far led to the recovery of US$151 million and 8 billion Naira in looted funds, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said. In...

February 13, 2017 No Responses

Fashola inspects work on Kaduna-Abuja highway, seeks careful driving

Ahead of the planned reconstruction and repair of the Abuja Airport runway which would lead to a diversion of air traffic and passengers from Abuja to Kaduna, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, at the weekend...

February 12, 2017 No Responses

Ogbeh lauds FG’s new plan for Niger Delta

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has commended the recently unveiled Federal Government’s plan for the Niger Delta region especially the proposed modular refineries as announced by the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo d...