Programme Coordinator of the Nigeria Natural Resource Charter (NNRC), Tengi George-Ikoli, has expressed fears that the dip in oil prices could send the country back to recession going by the depletion of the Excess Crude Account (ECA). Recalling the calls ...
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Cargo congestion looms at ports as truck owners threaten strike.
Controversy trails customs distribution of relief materials in Kano The Association of Maritime Truck Owners has threatened to stop lifting of cargoes in and out of the nation’s seaports, if the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) does not end ‘illegal’ auction ...
Read More »Nasarawa govt uncovers 200 ghost workers in payroll
No fewer than 200 ghost workers have been uncovered on the Payroll Vouchers (PV) of various Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Nasarawa State. Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs, Haruna Osegba, disclosed this at the weekend during a Joint ...
Read More »Five persons feared killed in Maiduguri bomb blasts
No fewer than five persons were reportedly killed at the weekend, when two suspected suicide bombers detonated their strapped Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) at Muna Garage in Maiduguri, Borno State. Another 46 persons also sustained various degrees of injuries in ...
Read More »Dickson offers automatic employment to medical doctors, PHD, MSC holders
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has offered automatic employment to 307 products of the state Scholarship Scheme who have completed their doctorate and master’s degree programmes in various disciplines in universities across the world. A statement issued by his Special ...
Read More »FG, NACCIMA laud Ugwuanyi for ease of doing business in Enugu
Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah and President of Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Iyalode Alaba Lawson have commended Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for enhancing the ease of doing business in ...
Read More »CAN, cleric’s tasks governors on looting, good governance
Chairman of the Northern Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Yakubu Pam, has urged newly elected governors in the 19 states of the region to hit the ground running to develop their states. This comes as General Overseer of the ...
Read More »NBM mobilises to advance democracy at 41st convention
To strengthen Nigeria’s democracy, the Neo-Black Movement of Africa (NBM) is assembling the best of minds to advance civil rule in the country at its 15th lecture and 41st national convention holding from the 11th to 14th of this month ...
Read More »Police kill three bandits, lose officer during attack in Kaduna
The Kaduna Police Command has killed three hoodlums in a gun duel. The deceased had invaded a company on the outskirts of the metropolis yesterday. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Department of Finance and Administration, DCP Onah Sunny, made the ...
Read More »Reps threaten to arrest fund administrators over unexplained N9 trillion
The House of Representatives has threatened to order the arrest of pension funds administrators (PFAs) over alleged misapplication of N9 trillion. Chairman of the ad hoc committee probing the activities of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Emmanuel Agbonayinma, told reporters ...
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