Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday in Abuja ordered the immediate release of N1.6billion for disbursement to victims of flood in 16 states of the federation. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council […]
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Ismaila Funtua, vice chairman, Mainstream Energy Solution, on Tuesday disclosed that electricity generation companies (GenCos) in Nigeria want an increase in electricity tariff due to what it described as high business costs. He said the GenCos were asking the government to stop subsidising electricity and “let those who can pay for it do so”. He also said […]
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Chairman, Heirs Holdings, Tony O. Elumelu, CON, charged the public sector to urgently fix bureaucracy and the process of doing business in Nigeria to promote, attract and retain willing investment partners in the country. He made this call yesterday while discussing the topic “Nigeria Open for Business” at the 2017 National Insurance Conference organised by […]
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Not less than 11 people have been reportedly killed while three sustained injuries in separate suicide attacks in Maiduguri. As reported by TheCable, a security source said that two bombers detonated their explosives around Molai Kalamari at exactly 10pm on Tuesday. He added that the second explosion took place at Sabongari Polo area of the […]
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Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Ltd. (EMTS) trading as Etisalat Nigeria on Tuesday informed its customers that the change of brand name will not affect its operations. Mr Ibrahim Dikko, the Vice President, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, EMTS made this known in a statement. Dikko said that EMTS was aware of recent news reports regarding Etisalat […]
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Thirty-two ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive in Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos from July 12 to July 22. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) stated this in its publication, `Shipping Position’, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
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The Nigerian air force has redeployed 58 high-ranking officers and established two new training commands in Enugu and Kaduna. The establishment of the two new commands brings to six the total numbers of commands under the air force. The shake-up in the air force was announced in a statement released on Tuesday. It read: “As […]
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Telecoms group Etisalat has finally announced the termination of its management agreement with its Nigerian arm. According to Reuters, the company has given few weeks to operators of the brand to phase out Etisalat in Nigeria Hatem Dowidar, chief executive of Etisalat International, said the company, with a 45 percent stake in the Nigerian business, […]
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Nigeria is at risk of losing about one million of its citizens to HIV if its government does not take control of the full sponsorship of the treatment, an official has said. The Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, Sani Aliyu, said Nigeria must take full sponsorship of its HIV/AIDS […]
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Cement industries are actively working hard to reduce the price of the commodity to boost the nation’s housing and the construction sector. The Chairman of BUA Cement, Alhaji Andulsamad Rabiu, told the State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja that plans are […]
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