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Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has been commended for his political will and successful partnership with foreign Investors in the State. The CEO Zoros Energy Ltd – investors in the Obeaku Deep Seaport – Eze Ikenna Nwaigwe, who gave the commendation when…
The World Bank says the COVID-19 pandemic will have major effects on developing countries. The President, David Malpass gave the hint at the Spring Meetings 2021 G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting. Malpass noted that the crisis came on top…
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has alerted the public as the US placed all alcohol-based hand sanitisers, manufactured in Mexico on watch list. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, made this known in a statement released to…
The FG has said only states that have domesticated the National Chart of Accounts (NCoA) will qualify for the $1.5 billion Performance-Based Grants of the World Bank for this year. The grant is given under the SFTAS Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability…
Do you know how much you loss and would have earned as you use Telecommunication Products daily? Do you know all this earnings accumulated as you use this products are in millions by now? Have you thought about the reasons Banks sell…
All is set for the April edition of Nung Ikono Obio Social Entrepreneurs (NOSE) Business Summit on Monday, April 5, 2021 at Ibom E-Library, Uyo. The March edition witnessed a huge turnout of persons willing to fine-tune their minds and reposition themselves…
Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Tuesday finally revealed that the state has concluded plans to sell the state-owned football club, Sunshine Stars. The move of the state government became evident when the governor set up a three-member committee for the…
…vows to recover depositors funds The new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Akwa Savings and Loans Limited, Mr Ime Okon has vowed to recover depositors’ funds given out as loans to creditors, who have refused to pay back. He expressed…
Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, has insisted that the approval of 1.5 billion dollars for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery is not a waste. NDREPORTERS recalls that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved 1.5 billion dollars…
Chuks Ibegbu, the immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, under Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has called for the immediate inquiry into the ownership of oil blocs in the Niger Delta and the breakdown of…
The Bayelsa State coordinator of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Mr. Bello Bina, has revealed that efforts to arrest three tankers suspected of moving adulterated Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), was almost frustrated by some police personnel in Bayelsa State….
The Nigerian Navy has deployed six ships, two tugboats, two helicopters and a Nigerian Airforce ATR42 aircraft to the Gulf of Guinea. On Saturday, Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo, inaugurated the 11th Exercise Obangame Express 2021. The…
President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Dikko Radda as the Director-General of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN). Head of Corporate Affairs Unit, SMEDAN, Ibrahim Mohammed made the announcement on Friday. The spokesman said the reappointment letter dated March…
According to the Labour Statistics Report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday, Nigeria’s unemployment rate increased to 33.3℅ in the fourth quarter of 2020. “The number of persons in the economically active or working-age population (15 – 64…
The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has described the approval of $1.5bn for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery as a signal that the Federal Government has woken up from its slumber. The IYC in a statement signed by its President,…
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has sealed 11 filling stations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for under-dispensing and over pricing of petrol. The Zonal Operations Controller, DPR, Abuja, Mr. Abubakar Buba, made this known to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday….
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has warned members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) in Taraba State against selling petrol above the official pump price of N162 per litre. Mr Jeremiah Mashat, Operational Controller of DPR Field Operation’s Office in…
The 32nd Enugu International Trade Fair would commence this Friday, March 19, 2021, with no less than 100 exhibitors. This was announced by the Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture.l, ECCIMA. President of the Chamber, Mr. Emeka Nwandu, at a…
The House of Representatives has asked the mobile telecommunication operators in Nigeria to put on hold the planned suspension of the USSD system. The green chamber resolved to mandate the House Committee on Communications to mediate between Mobile operators and Banks on…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced new charges for customers using the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services. The apex bank has announced that from Tuesday, customers will pay N6.98 per transaction every time they use USSD services. This was…
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has temporarily closed the Murtala Mohammed International Airport E-Finger departure screening point to carry out some routine maintenance on the screening machines. Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, the General Manager, Corporate Affairs of the authority, disclosed this…
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has given reasons for the suspension of Azman Air operation with immediate effect. Azman Air had earlier announced the suspension of its operations for safety auditing by the NCAA. But in a statement, NCAA Director-General, Capt….
The European Union (EU) has reported Nigeria to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The complaint concerns Nigeria’s policy on dairy. WTO Director-General, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday, during her visit to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Okonjo-Iweala…
Azman Airline has announced suspension of flight services to all destinations in Nigeria. The airline made this known in a terse statement on its Twitter page. The management said that the suspension of the flight services was connected to the audit of…
The FG has announced dates for the reopening of Kano, Port Harcourt, and Enugu airports for international flights. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, confirmed it during the weekly briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Monday. Sirika said Enugu airport is…
Mr Muhammad Nami, the Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has hailed Nigerian mothers and their counterparts worldwide for their untiring contributions to family stability and national development. Nami made the statement on the occasion of this year’s International Mother’s Day…
The United Arab Emirates authorities has announced it’s extending the ban on Nigerian flights to Dubai until March 20. A statement from the Public Relations officer of the Emirate Airlines said that customers from both Abuja and Lagos would not be accepted…
Illegal routes for transporting petroleum products have been identified in two local government areas of Cross River State. Chairman, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Cross River Chapter, Mr Robert Obi disclosed this when the group paid a courtesy visit to…
Traders in Imo State, whose shops and wares were bulldozed by the government, are now accusing the government of suffocating them to death. The government, through the Owerri Capital Development Authority (OCDA) demolished the World Bank Market in Owerri, Imo State, at…
Nigeria has threatened to ban flights from the UAE and The Netherlands as a reciprocal action. The warning by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 is the second in five weeks. On Monday, the PTF ordered the Ministry of Aviation to…
The Central Bank (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele has been summoned to appear before the Senate Committee on Public Accounts headed by Senator Matthew Urhoghide on Tuesday. The summon to the governor who is expected to appear with his officials, was in…
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has announced a new “CBN Naira for Dollar Scheme ”for senders and recipients of International money transfers. The CBN in a statement released by its Director, Trade and Exchange Department, A.S Jibrin, said it will through…
The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has claimed that the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria, AUFCDN, was forced to suspend its blockage of food supply to the Southern Nigeria. CNG in a statement by its spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman,…
FrankRose Foundation in Collaboration with *Institute of Entrepreneural Skills Development* presents *AKWAIBOM ONE YOUTH ONE SKILL PROJECT 2021* This project is targeted at making youths become self-employed through Fashion Design, Shoe Making, Digital Marketing Skills, Machines/Tools and Access to small Business Capital…
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Tuesday said that it will not hesitate to apply appropriate sanctions on marketers engaged in hoarding of petroleum products in their outlets. Mr Sarki Auwalu, Director, DPR, gave the warning in a statement issued on…
Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, on Monday, warned the contractor handling the 24-kilometre Dass-Bununu road, linking Tafawa Balewa and Dass Local Government Areas of the state to either return to the site or have the contract revoked. The governor gave the…
Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol is to sell for as much as N230 per litre in March, fuel marketers declared yesterday. This came as panic buying and fuel hoarding rocked many filling stations in Lagos and Abuja, making…
An Ogun State High Court sitting in Sagamu has declared the Adubiagbe family as the rightful owner of the Atoyo Adubiagbe-Oga community, in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State. The court, in its ruling, ordered the family to take possession…
The sight and sound of newly commission Ibom Tropicana mall.. According to market square MD, Is this truly the most beautiful mall in Nigeria ? Guys drop your answers below after seeing the photos below ..
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has called on various security agencies in the country to patronize the Enyimba Automated Shoe factory. Speaking at the Abia Social media Converge, Ikpeazu said that Made in Aba shoes can compete favourably with any…
Business stakeholders in Akwa Ibom State have called on the Central Bank of Nigeria to make available an emergency liquidity in order to assuage the economic consequences of COVID-19 pandemic on businesses. They added that such would keep the economy afloat…
The Management of Air Peace has announced that the UAE Government had stopped passengers’ airlifting from Nigeria to Dubai as part of its COVID-19 measures. Air Peace Spokesperson, Mr Stanley Olisa, made the announcement in a statement on Thursday in Lagos….
Nigerians on social media have strongly condemned the ban issued to Financial institutions against having any crypto or facilitating payments for crypto exchanges.
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on Friday, instructed Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), other Financial Institutions (OFIs), Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) and local financial institutions against having any transactions in crypto or facilitating payments for crypto exchanges. The apex bank gave…
Governor Udom Emmanuel’s drive towards food sufficiency and production of staple foods in Akwa Ibom has further been boosted with the cultivation of Onions and specialized trainings of youths in cultivation of onions, tomatoes and other vegetables in the state. Coming on…
The South East National Economic Council (NEC) Implementation Committee is impressed with the level of ongoing projects at the Enyimba Automated Shoe Factory, Aba. The South East National Economic Council (NEC) team Lead, Hon. Mark Okoye, who stated this during a…
All is now set for the official commissioning of Norfin Offshore Shipyard in Oruk-Anam local government area of Akwa Ibom State. The shipyard, a private investment of a Singaporean based Akwa Ibom born ship manufacturer, Engr. Iniekong Charles Udonwa, is located along…
The National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), an initiative of the Federal Government of Nigeria has commenced in the South-East. The initiative, ND REPORTERS gathered, is designed to ensure speedy deployment of meters to electricity customers, as a conscious way of closing the…
The Rice Millers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN) has alerted of massive rice smuggling into the country. Their alarm comes barely five weeks after the federal government reopened Nigerian borders. The entry points were shut from August 20, 2019 to December 17, 2020…
Amidst the economic uncertainties and loss of livelihood in many Nigerian homes occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, no fewer than 1,000 young women have been engaged in the production and processing of agro food products by foremost non-oil exporter in Nigeria, Valency…
Stakeholders in the aviation sector, as well as residents of South-East, on Wednesday, hailed the arrival of another airline at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. The United Nigeria Airline touched down at the Airport Wednesday afternoon, amidst jubilation by passengers and…