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September 8, 2022 No Responses

NPA Receives 24 Ships Laden With Wheat, Sugar, Frozen Fish, Others At Lagos Ports

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on Wednesday said 24 ships conveying bulk sugar, container, bulk wheat, bulk gypsum, frozen fish and others were expected at Lagos ports from September 5 to September 21, 2022. According to NPA, other items expected...

September 7, 2022 No Responses

Photo News

L-R: Representative of Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and Executive Director, Marine and Operations, Hon. Onari Brown presented the Authority’s plaque to the Chairman, Dala Dry Port, Alh. AbubakarSahaboBawuro during a working visit to the ...

September 5, 2022 No Responses

FG To Fix Port Infrastructure As Bello-Koko Assures of Bonny Deep Seaport Approval

The Minister of Transportation, Muazu Sambo has promised that the federal government will address issues of infrastructural decay affecting trade facilitation at Onne Seaport. Sambo who stated this during a tour of the Eastern ports with Onne as the first...

September 2, 2022 No Responses

FG Issues Certificates Of Registration, Sales Permit To Fertiliser Dealers

The Federal Government, on Thursday, presented certificates of registration and sales permits to authorised fertiliser dealers in Nigeria. A statement issued by Mrs Modupe Olatunji, Information officer I, of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development qu...

September 1, 2022 No Responses

Sambo: Regional Maritime Bank Takes Off In 90 Days

Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, has expressed optimism that within 90 days, the ministry will secure accommodation to enable the take-off of the Regional Maritime Development Bank(RMDB). Sambo said this in a statement issued by the ministry’s Dir...

August 30, 2022 No Responses

FG Plans To Spend N19.76tri In 2023

The Federal Government is proposing to spend N19.76 trillion in 2023. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr Zainab Ahmed, made the declaration in Abuja on Monday when she said the 2023 budget had a proposed deficit of N11.3...

August 27, 2022 No Responses

Mental Health: Jela’s Development Initiatives Trains Educationists

Jela’s Development Initiatives, JDI, a nonprofit organisation, supported by TY Danjuma Foundation, has organised a three-day mental health awareness programme for teachers, counsellors, and administrators across four notable public secondary schools in the F...

August 27, 2022 No Responses

CBN Releases $265m To Settle Outstanding Ticket Sales

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),on Friday, released the sum of 265 million dollars to airlines operating in the country to settle outstanding ticket sales. According to a statement issued by the Director, Corporate Communications Department of CBN, Mr Osita....

August 26, 2022 No Responses

Manufacturers Task CBN On FOREX Allocation

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to allocate more FOREX to manufacturers to allow for the importation of raw materials and machinery. Edo/Delta branch chairman of MAN, Dr Okwara Udensi, made th...

August 25, 2022 No Responses

FEC Approves N43.6b For Road Projects In Northeast

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N43.6 billion for the construction and reconstruction of roads in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe and Bauchi States. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq...

August 24, 2022 No Responses

Nigeria Exports $2.6b Non-Oil Products In Six Months

Nigeria exported over 4. 146 million metric tonnes of non-oil products, worth $2.593 billion from January to June 2022, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), disclosed on Tuesday. Presenting the first half year 2022 progress report to Journ...

August 24, 2022 No Responses

Nigeria Decries Abuse Of Expatriate Quota Policy

The Minister of Interior, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola has decried the abuses and gross violations of Nigeria’s expatriate quota policy by foreigners and some organisations in the country. Aregbesola condemned the practice on Tuesday in Abuja at the re-inaug...

August 22, 2022 No Responses

SEC Seeks Tax Exemption On Corporate Bonds

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has urged the federal government to consider its proposal to exempt corporate bonds from the payment of tax. Speaking in Lagos at an interactive session with Journalists on the outcome of the second...

August 22, 2022 No Responses

NLNG Receives Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Certificate For Bonny – Bodo Road From FIRS

The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), one of the companies undertaking the construction of roads under the Road Infrastructure Development and Refurbishment Investment Tax Credit Scheme, has received its Tax Credit Certificate from the Federal Inla...