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November 14, 2022 No Responses

Tinubu Donates N40m To Flood Victims In Edo

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu donated N40 million to flood victims in Edo State on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the floods displaced about 32,893 persons in Etsako Central,...

November 14, 2022 No Responses

Dana Air Partners 2022 Nigerian Economic Summit Group

Dana Air has announced that it is partnering the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning (MFBNP) on the 28th Nigerian Economic Summit (NES#28), scheduled to hold on 14th and 15th November 2022, a...

November 13, 2022 No Responses

Nigeria woos investors To Sanitation Value Chain

Nigerian Government has called on national and foreign investors to maximise the business opportunities in the sanitation sector for the nation’s socio-economic development. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Mrs Didi Walson-...

November 13, 2022 No Responses

FBNBank UK Stands Tall At 40, Appreciates Customers, Regulators

FBNBank UK, a member of First Bank of Nigeria Limited and Subsidiaries had London, the United Kingdom painted blue as it celebrated its 40th anniversary, themed Partnership Beyond Borders, on Friday, 11 November 2022. The event which had cust...

November 12, 2022 No Responses

Global Food Imports To Hit $2tri

Food import costs globally are projected to reach nearly two trillion dollars this year, or higher than previously expected, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said. FAO, in a report published on Friday, stated that the new forecast...

November 12, 2022 No Responses

Shippers’ Council Boss Mourns Otunba Kunle Folarin

The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) Emmanuel Jime paid a condolence visit to Mrs Folarin, wife of Late Otunba Kunle Folarin, Chairman Ports Consultative Council (PCC) at their home in Lagos, on Friday. The Council’s boss also signe...

November 12, 2022 No Responses

Edo Targets N60b IGR, Unveils Residency Card

Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki on Friday set an Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) target of N60 billion for 2023 fiscal year in the state. Obaseki disclosed this during sixth edition of the yearly Alaghodaro Investment Summit in Benin. &nbs...

November 12, 2022 No Responses

FRSC Felicitates With Sultan Of Sokoto On 16 Years On Throne

The Acting Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Dauda Biu, on Friday congratulated the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, on his 16th year on the throne. The congratulatory message is contained in a statement...

November 11, 2022 No Responses

Edo Allocates 35,000 Hectares Of Land For Housing, Industrial Development Projects

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration has made available 35,000 hectares of land for housing and industrial development projects in various towns and cities across the State. Obaseki said this when he received executive ...

November 11, 2022 No Responses

Photo News

Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Bashir Yusuf Jamoh, OFR in handshake with President Yoon Suk-Yeol of South Korea with President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, during a Bilateral Meeting after the DG addressed a busi...

November 11, 2022 No Responses

Group Unveils Vote023 Campaign To Encourage Voting

A Venture Builder and Founder of Emergent Labs, Emeka Mba, supported by Angela Ochu-Baiye, a Social Entrepreneur and Chied Executive Officer of Inspired by Jela, has launched an initiative tagged ‘Vote023′, a non-partisan incentive-d...

November 11, 2022 No Responses

STOAN Chairman, Haastrup Mourns Kunle Folarin

The Chairman, Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN), Princess Vicky Haastrup has commiserated with the family of late Otunba Kunle Folarin who died in Lagos on Tuesday at the age of 82. Until his death, Otunba Folarin was the...

November 10, 2022 No Responses

Reps probe 115 MDAs Over Alleged N600b Extra-Budgetary Expenditures

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) has commenced a probe of how 115 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of Government incurred over N600billion extra-budgetary expenditures on Salary and wages. The Chairman of the commi...

November 10, 2022 No Responses

Road Accidents Decline By 1.88 Per Cent In Q2

The number of road accidents in Q2 of 2022 reduced by 1.88 per cent when compared with Q1 of 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has said. NBS in its Road Transport Data Q2 2022 Report released in Abuja...