News – Page 122 – City Business News

June 12, 2025 No Responses

NCC, Stakeholders Tackle Rural Connectivity Challenges

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has collaborated with the Association for Progressive Communications and other institutional stakeholders towards addressing challenges confronting rural network connectivity in Nigeria.The collaboration resulted in a two-day workshop hosted in Abuja from June 3-4, 2025, to...

June 12, 2025 No Responses

World Bank Lifts Ban On Nuclear Energy Financing

The World Bank is re-entering the nuclear energy space “for the first time in decades,” its President Ajay Banga said Wednesday, as it works towards meeting growing electricity demand in developing countries. Banga said in an email to staff that...

June 11, 2025 No Responses

New Jetour T2 Traveler Adventure-Ready SUV Arrives In Nigeria

Uniquely crafted Jetour T2 Traveler Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) has arrived in Nigeria.According to Jetour, the new 4X4 SUV is where the spirit of adventure meets modern luxury.Jetour T2 is a large SUV known for its spacious interior, advanced safety...

June 11, 2025 No Responses

AMATO, MWUN To Stakeholders: COMTUA No Longer Exist

The Association of Maritime Truck Owners (AMATO) and the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) have firmly reiterated that the Council of Maritime Truck Unions and Associations (COMTUA) is no longer recognised and has no standing in Nigeria’s maritime sec...

June 11, 2025 No Responses

Nigeria Seeks Prompt Ratification Of Agreement To Protect Oceans, Increase Funding to Developing Countries

Nigeria has called for the prompt ratification of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement and a significant increase in funding for blue economy initiatives to ensure the protection and sustainable use of the world’s oceans.Delivering ...

June 11, 2025 No Responses

NIWA MD Bags Service Award

The Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) Mr Bola Oyebamiji has bagged the “Icon of Diligence in Service Award”.The award was bestored on the MD by the Exposure Media at the 2025 annual lecture and award presentation of...

June 11, 2025 No Responses

SEC To Firms: Honour Unclaimed Dividend Requests

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has directed all public companies and Registrars to stop treating unclaimed dividends older than 12 years as “statute-barred”, especially those from before the enactment of the Finance Act 2020.The directive rea...

June 10, 2025 No Responses

Ikeja Electric Insists On Zero Tolerance For Vandalism As Court Convicts Three Persons

For vandalizing and stealing electricity distribution equipment within the Ikeja Electric network, Magistrate courts in Lagos recently convicted three persons.The Magistrate Court sitting at Ikorodu on 5th May 2025 convicted and sentenced Adegbite Jamiu for va...

June 10, 2025 No Responses

Seplat Energy Bags CIPS Procurement Excellence Standard Certificate

The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) has presented the Procurement Excellence Standard Certificate to Seplat Energy Plc, the foremost Nigerian independent energy company. The Global Chief Executive Officer, CIPS, Ben Farrell, m...

June 10, 2025 No Responses

AGF: Why I Dropped Fraud Charge Against Fidelity Bank’s MD, Onyeali-Ikpe

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, on Monday, disclosed reasons why he discontinued a fraud charge the Federal Government entered against the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, MD/CEO, of Fid...

June 10, 2025 No Responses

Police Kill Seven Kidnappers

The Nigeria Police Force has killed seven suspected kidnappers and arrested five alleged armed robbers in separate raids across Delta and Kaduna states. Force Public Relations Officer ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi disclosed this in a statement on Monday, referencing t...

June 9, 2025 No Responses

Oyetola Joins Macron, Prince William, Others At Blue Economy Forum In Monaco

Nigeria’s Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, joined world leaders and global dignitaries on Sunday, 8th June, 2025 at the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco.The special event, held ahead of the United Nations (UN) Oceans Conferenc...

June 9, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Intercepts Illicit Drugs Packaged As Green Tea

Sixty-six parcels of loud, a strong strain of cannabis, packaged as green tea, have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. A statement.....

June 8, 2025 No Responses

President Tinubu, FRSC Needs Your Further Intervention

By Kayode Olagunju I just took another look at the picture of the then Governor Bola Tinubu at the helm of affairs in Lagos proudly donning the uniforms of Special Marshals, the volunteer arm of the Federal Road Safety Corps....