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January 23, 2018 No Responses

Mining: FG engages Revenue Consultants

The Federal Government has engaged the services of about 100 revenue consultants to work on areas of leakages in the revenue accrued from the mining sector, with a view to shoring up earnings from the sector. The consultants, who would...

January 23, 2018 No Responses

Edo seeks partnership with Diaspora community on gender

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has expressed readiness to partner with Edo indigenes in the diaspora to engender social economic growth, especially in empowering women and girls in the state. Obaseki disclosed this when he hosted Ms. Blessing...

January 23, 2018 No Responses

Photo News

L-R: Project Coordinator, Revenue Optimisation and Verification Project Mr. Makinde Araoye; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Muazu Abdullahi; Director Procurement, Mr. Kehinde Osikoya; and Director Finance and Account, M...

January 23, 2018 No Responses

Shanghai Dingheng Shipping Unveils Agenda to Build 100 Ships

Chinese tanker owner Shanghai Dingheng Shipping has inked a strategic cooperation agreement with local shipbuilders and steel and equipment manufacturers for its plan of constructing 100 ships in the next ten to twenty years. The company’s parent Dinghen...

January 22, 2018 No Responses

CBN explains inability to hold MPC meeting for January

The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has allayed the fears of Nigerians and the international community over the inability to hold the meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) for January. A statement signed by Emefiele...

January 22, 2018 No Responses

MOWCA Seeks Co-operation with Association of African Maritime Adminstration

The Chairman of the Association of African Maritime Administration, (AAMA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has stated that the maritime sector is crucial to the growth and development of the African economy. The AAMA Chairman who stated this when the Secretary General....

January 21, 2018 No Responses

Police nabs 20 visa racketeers in Lagos

The Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) says it has arrested over 20 suspects who specialised in counterfeiting entry visas of some foreign countries. Spokesman for the PSFU, Audi Lawal, said in a statement on Saturday in Lagos that the visa...

January 21, 2018 No Responses

NPA Photo News

Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, during a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja

January 20, 2018 No Responses

Audi delivers 1.8m vehicles in 2017

For the year 2017, Audi AG increased its global sales for the eighth year in a row. Despite a turbulent first half of the year, the company achieved a new record-breaking figure: Around 1,878,100 deliveries represent an increase of...

January 20, 2018 No Responses

Oshiomhole to Obaseki: I’m humbled by your accomplishments

Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday commended the achievements of his successor, Godwin Obaseki. Oshiomhole gave the commendation while commissioning 75 new intra-city buses purchased by the Obaseki-led administration to boost the f...

January 20, 2018 No Responses

NSC to hold one day meeting on operations of Kaduna Dry Port

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council is holding a one-day meeting with its stakeholders on the operations of the Kaduna Dry Port. The meeting which is expected to focus on the processes of documentation of the Kaduna bound cargoes, obligations of Terminal...

January 20, 2018 No Responses

NIMASA, Nigeria Gas Association Seek Green Environment

In continuation of its drive to ensure cleaner oceans and safer environment in the Nigerian maritime space, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has expressed commitment to the green environment initiative, which is a global strategy...

January 19, 2018 No Responses

How to restructure, put NIPOST on profitable path, by BPE

The planned restructuring and modernisation of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) will lead to its unbundling to have stand alone business components that will project the NIPOST brand, provide efficient service and be put on a profitable path. This was....

January 19, 2018 No Responses

Agency probes Apple, Samsung

Italy’s competition authority is looking into charges that Apple and Samsung are surreptitiously slowing down old phones to push consumers into buying new products. Consumer groups across the world have accused the two tech giants of so-called planned obsole...