The National Industrial Court of Nigeria says it plans to launch a mobile app in order to increase access of litigants to information, ease court proceedings and boost speedy delivery of judgments. The President of the Court, Justice Babatunde Adejumo, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja, when he displayed some features of the app through a mobile phone to …

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The Federal Road Safety Corps has recommended a nationwide ban on commercial motorcycles popularly known as ‘Okada’ to reduce road accidents. The recommendation forms part of the October Road Traffic Crash Report 2016, submitted by the Corps Marshal, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The report quotes Oyeyemi as saying that commercial motorcyclist remained …

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The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has reaffirmed its commitment to making the commission’s systems and processes more transparent for sustainable development of the Niger Delta region. This was contained in a 21-point focus set out at the board’s inaugural meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State last Thursday as strategic to regional development. NDDC Chairman, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, stated that …

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AS the stock market looks likely to end the first month of this year in negative territory, investment analysts at Afrinvest West Africa have posited that 2017 may end up another difficult year for equities if certain drivers of the negative 2016 performance are not addressed urgently. The analysts observed that market performance in 2016 indicated that although a combination …

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The Managing Director/CEO, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), Mr. Oladele Amoda, has assured that power supply will improve this year. He said stakeholders in the electricity sector know the source of the power problems in the country. Amoda who made this disclosure on Monday, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, said the Federal Government is …

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United States (US) multinational General Electric (GE) in Abuja proposed to invest in Nigeria’s three refineries located in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna. The firm, in a presentation to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Group Managing Director (GMD), Dr. Maikanti Baru and his team, said that its team of partners, including its consortium involving the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) partners, …

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The multibillion dollar Eko Atlantic City, being developed in Lagos State, has made significant progress in its infrastructural development with the completion of 14 bridges, its developer has said. The bridges, built to international standard, in phases one and two, extend to over five million square metres, representing half of the planned city. Work on the bridge started in December …

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Players in the  electricity sub-sector, generation companies, GENCOs, distribution companies, DISCOs and Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, have continued to trade blames over the worsening electricity supply situation in the country. In the latest blame game, the GENCOs said the DISCOs are unserious on their mandate, while also accusing TCN of inability to transmit electricity due to inadequate and obsolete …

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The Lagos State Government has commended Globacom for supporting, for the second consecutive time, the astonishing innovations introduced by the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode administration to the annual Lagos State Countdown to a new year now tagged, One Lagos Fiesta. Globacom was the exclusive telecommunications partner of the event which held between 24 and 31 December, 2016. In addition to the …

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From Left: SP Awe Kayode of SEC Police Unit, SP Ogbuefi Henry-King Head of SEC police unit, Rev. Fr. Ukeje Samuel Ikechukwu, the Complainant, Mrs Ifunayanchi Atuorah and ASP Onuoha Uka when Ikechukwu was presented with a cheque of N1.5m recovered from illegal sale of his shares in Abuja, weekend   Advertisement

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