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February 11, 2018 No Responses

Atiku condoles with Buhari, Buratai over death of loved ones

Former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, has commiserated with President Muhammadu Buhari over the passing away of his sister-in-law, Hajiya Aisha Mamman. In a statement through his Twitter handle on Saturday, Atiku, a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), also commiserated...

February 10, 2018 No Responses

Buhari Approves Retirement, Dismissal of Justices

Following recommendations from the National Judicial Council (NJC), President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the compulsory retirement of Honourable Justice A. F. A Ademola of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court and the dismissal from office of Honoura...

February 10, 2018 No Responses

NPA Photo News

Managing Director, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, (Right) and the Chairperson, Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN), Princess (Dr.) Vicky Haastrup during the stakeholders forum organized by the Nigerian Ports Authority in Lagos.

February 10, 2018 No Responses

MTN Photo News

L-R; Government Relations Advisor, MTN, Mrs. Ifeoma Nkata, Deputy Director Monitoring and Reporting, Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Maureen Ubi, Matron, Divine Wounds of Jesus Orphanage Home, Mrs Catherine Akochiwe, Secretary, ...

February 10, 2018 No Responses

NSE Photo News

L – R shows Oscar N. Onyema, OON, Chief Executive Officer, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) presenting a replica of the closing gong to Asisat Oshoala, MON, African Female Footballer of the Year during the Closing Gong ceremony held in...

February 9, 2018 No Responses

Osinbajo inaugurates N4.1b Nestlé factory in Ogun

The Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday urged multinational companies to domicile their factories in Nigeria as he inaugurated Nestlé Nigeria Plc’s N4.1 billion Milo-Ready-to-Drink (RTD) factory at Agbara in Ogun. Osinbajo said that they should take ...

February 9, 2018 No Responses

Edo earmarks 150,000 hectares for oil palm plantation

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state is ready to commit between 100,000 to 150,000 hectares of land to the cultivation of oil palm plantations over a period of five to ten years. Obaseki disclosed this when...

February 9, 2018 No Responses

Dana Air: 90% of our pilots, co-pilots are Nigerians

Dana Air on Thursday said that 90 per cent of its pilots and co-pilots were Nigerians in line with the Executive Order on Local Content Procurement. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the airline’s Director of Flight Operations,...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

NNPC to tackle fuel scarcity with two Cargoes per day in February

In a bid to keep the country wet with petrol and eradicate the fuel queues that have resurfaced in some cities, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has programmed to bring in two cargoes of petrol per day for the...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

‘90% Nigerian households consume contaminated water’

Ninety per cent of households in Nigeria consume contaminated water and other impure substances, the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) has revealed. Mrs Maureen Zubie-Okolo, a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with UNICEF, told the News Agency of Nig...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

Nigerian Railway generates N4.1billion in 2017

The Managing Director, Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, said on Wednesday that the cooperation generated N4.12 billion in 2017, as against the N4.85 billion targeted. Okhiria made this known during the 2018 Budget Defence and the organisati...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

NLNG presents $200,000 to 2017 Literature, Science Prizes winners

Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Limited, on Wednesday at a Public Presentation in Lagos, formally presented The Nigeria Prize for Literature and The Nigeria Prize for Science, which come with a cash prize of $100,000 each, to four winning entries that emerged...

February 8, 2018 No Responses

FG re-appoints Consortium of Banks to implement $2.5b Euro bond

The Federal Government has announced the re-appointment of a consortium of banks including Citi Group, Standard Chartered, Stanbic IBTC, Whitten-Case and African Practice to implement its 2.5billion dollars Eurobond scheme. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Ad...

February 7, 2018 No Responses

NPA boss at Ikorodu lighter terminal, flags off export of solid minerals

The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman on Wednesday flagged off the first export consignment of manganese, a solid mineral resource from the Ikorodu lighter Terminal. Bala Usman also used the opportunity to explain that.....