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February 21, 2017 No Responses

WFE explains FSB’s access to financial market infrastructure

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has responded to a consultation from the Financial Stability Board (FSB) related to the Continuity of Access to Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) for a Firm in Resolution. Whilst focused on situations where a firm...

February 21, 2017 No Responses

NPA boss canvasses quick passage of maritime bills

AS part of measures to boost Port Development, the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Uthority ( NPA) Ms Hadiza Bala Usman has appealed to the National Aasembly to pass the Ports and Harbours Bill, National Transport Commission Bill and other maritime...

February 21, 2017 No Responses

Unauthorised Employment: Labour faults alleged agenda to sack 3,500 workers

Organised Labour under the aegis of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has flayed alleged plan by the Federal Government to sack 3,500 public servants “under the guise that their appointments were irregular and unauthorized”. In a pr...

February 21, 2017 No Responses

Amaechi to chair town hall on cargo handling charges

Against the backdrop of a recent audit report revealing that private terminal operators in Nigerian ports lost about N58.9 billion to the rising foreign exchange scarcity, Consumer Price Index (CPI), among others, in eight years, a one-day town hall meeting...

February 21, 2017 No Responses

CBN announces new foreign exchange policy

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has unveiled a new foreign exchange policy with immediate effect. According to the CBN, in order to ease the difficulties encountered by Nigerians in obtaining funds for foreign exchange transactions, it would henceforth be...

February 21, 2017 No Responses

Maritime Photo News

L-R: The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA),Hadiza Bala Usman; Deputy Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Ports, Habours and Waterways, Hon. Kabir Ajanah Muhammed; Chairman of the Committee, Hon. (Dr.) Patrick Asadu; Executive Secr...

February 20, 2017 No Responses

PwC survey predicts distruption of Nigeria’s financial service sector

Nigerian Retail banking and Payments sectors will be the most disrupted by a group of new companies building financial technology (FinTech) solutions, PwC’s Nigeria FinTech Survey 2017 report has predicted. According to PwC, the report is the result of insig...

February 20, 2017 No Responses

Massilia Motors Photo News

L-R: Deputy Managing Director of Kewalram Chanrai Group, Mr. Victor Eburajolo; Managing Director of Massilia Motors Limited, Mr. Thomas Pelletier; and Deputy Managing Director of Massilia Motors Limited, Mr. Kunle Jaiyesimi at a Press Conference to announce th...

February 19, 2017 No Responses

FG to open grain reserves

If the prices of food stuff continue to escalate across the country, the Federal Government will open the national grain reserves. Speaking after the inauguration of the management of three Federal Unuversities of Agriculture in Abuja, the Minister of Agricult...

February 19, 2017 No Responses

UBA Photo News

L-R: Minister of African Integration & Ivoirians of the diaspora, Ally Coulibaly; MD, UBA Cote d’Ivoire, Sarata Kone; Director, Marketing & Corporate Communications, Bola Atta and Minister of Culture & Francophony of Cote d’Ivoire Maurice Banda...

February 18, 2017 No Responses

Peugeot unveils agenda for 2017

In terms of performance, Peugeot vehicles are known world-wide for their resilience and durability and this is not any different in Nigeria as PAN Nigeria, Kaduna has stood the test of time. The Kaduna based factory has passed through thick...

February 18, 2017 No Responses

Nigerian Chamber of Shipping training holds in March

Come Wednesday, March 15 to Friday, March 17, 2017, the Nigerian Chamber of Shipping will hold a three day training programme on the “ABC of Shipping” in Apapa, Lagos. According to an official statement issued by the Chamber, the training,...

February 17, 2017 No Responses

Massilia Motors now sole distributor of Mitsubishi vehicles in Nigeria

As part of measures to consolidates and expand the distributions of Mitsubishi vehicles in Nigeria, Massilia Motors Limited, on Thursday in Lagos, announced its position as the sole distributor of Mitsubishi Motors in Nigeria. The company is a joint venture o...

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. Engi...