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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. Engineering &Technical Services, Prof. Idris Abubakar when the NIM...

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...

February 12, 2017 No Responses

Intels highlights benefits of Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone

The Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Intels Nigeria Limited, Mr. Patrick Bird says the Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone offers enormous advantages and incentives to foreign companies to invest in Nigeria. Speaking on Wednesday in Onne on the sidelines...

February 12, 2017 No Responses

NIIA faults clamour for transfer of containers to Ikorodu terminal

An importer and President of the Nigerian Importers Integrity Association (NIIA), Godwin Onyekazi, has said that the nation’s seaports are operating well below capacity and should not transfer long-standing (overtime) containers to offdock facilities especia...

February 11, 2017 No Responses

Waste is Nigeria’s greatest challenge, says Obaseki

The greatest challenge facing Nigeria as a nation is that of waste. There is so much waste in this country, Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has said. The Governor also said that now is the time to think about...