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FirstBank mobile banking app, FirstMobile hits one million users FirstBank launchmobile banking platform has recorded a milestone in its user numbers with the attainment of 1million active users. FirstMobile as part of its drive to leverage evolving technology in its provision of cutting-edge banking services as well as boost convenience and ease of banking to enhance customers’ digital banking experience …

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DANGOTE’s patrol tackles illegal haulage, sanitize Nigerian roads …arrests 244 suspects The initiative of Dangote Group in sanitizing activities of its drivers engaged in illegal haulage has continued to yield results as its National Patrol Unit has over a period of time, arrested 244 suspects for various offences inimical to operations of the company. Còordinator of the unit, CP Magaji …

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FG says to tighten the noose on maritime criminals The Federal Government is planning to take strict measures to make its terrain difficult for maritime criminals to operate, the Senate said on Wednesday. To tighten the noose on maritime criminals, the Senate said it has proposed a special tribunal to facilitate speedy prosecution in cases of arrested vessels, crew members …

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Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Audu Ogbeh FG Plans $3.2bn Capitalization for Farming Lender The Federal Government plans to capitalize its state-owned Bank of Agriculture with 1 trillion naira ($3.2 billion) and will authorize the lender to take deposits as Africa’s most populous nation seeks to boost farming output and reduce food imports. “We are looking at 25 million …

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Nigeria needs 2.4m litres of biodiesel daily Nigeria needs 2.4 million litres of biodiesel daily to successfully implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the Jatropha Growers, Processors and Exporters Association of Nigeria has said. The National President of JaGPEAN, retired Maj. Gen. J. Omosebi, stated this at the second interactive meeting of the national and state executives of the …

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As the war against insurgency in the North Eastern Nigeria subsides, the European Union (EU) has pledged 20 million dollars to support the Nigeria’s Federal Government to rebuild mainly markets and warehouses in the North-East and Niger Delta regions. According to a monitored news from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the EU Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Michael Arrion, gave …

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Four billion people lack internet access worldwide – UN Almost four billion people still lack access to online platform through the internet, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs says, pledging to tackle the divide. The Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development at the department, Lenni Montiel, stated this on Tuesday at the 11th annual UN Internet Governance Forum, which opened …

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CBN policy delays wheat farming in Kano – Farmers Wheat Farmers in Kano State have blamed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the delay in the take-off of this year’s wheat planting season in the state. According to agency report, Faruk Rabiu, Kano State Chairman, Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria (WFAN), had disclosed that participating banks withdrew from the …

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5  Expatriates kidnappers, Gurama’s murderers apprehended Folake Sokoya On the _d of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, sequel to the Kidnapping of four Expatriates and a Nigerian & for Dangote Group in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State on friday, November 9, 2016 and the Subsequent Kidnapping and murder of Mr. Bello Istifanus of Dangote Group when he went to …

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