Politics

Dangote Group, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), and four other companies have joined in on the federal government drive to build infrastructure across Nigeria. The companies, which also includes Lafarge Africa Plc, Unilever Nigeria Plc, Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, and China Road and Bridge Corporation Nigeria Limited, will build 19 roads, totaling 794.4km in 11 states across each of …

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Recently, members of the Christian Press Association of Nigeria (CPAN) engaged the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina. He was the group’s guest at the maiden edition of its Breakfast meeting series. Adesina took the opportunity to iron out issues  about his faith, person, office  and President Buhari, stating that the President means …

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United Bank for Africa (UBA Group) kicked off the first session of the week-long Social Media Week Lagos 2019 with the announcement that its chatbot Leo now covers 17 African countries and has one million subscribers. Leo was launched in January 2018 to enable customers of the bank have access to select banking services including account opening, loan applications, account …

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has registered 1,205,187 candidates for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, which is scheduled to take place between Saturday, March 16 and Saturday, March 23, with Lagos and Kaduna states recording the highest registrations of 161,654 and 76,049 candidates, respectively. The board also said that the phone numbers, which the candidates used for their …

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Nigeria’s budget 2019 yesterday got a boost as oil prices surged to a two-month high as ongoing crisis sweeping Venezuela continues to have a huge impact on global commodity markets. Brent crude futures yesterday rose to $64 a barrel as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)-led supply cuts and sanctions from the US against the country’s petroleum industry offset …

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Stakeholders in the Capital Market have been urged to continue to take positive steps to attract and retain both local and foreign investments to stimulate economic growth and developed critical infrastructure necessary for the country’s development. Ag. Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Mary Uduk stated this at the formal launch of the book ‘Riding the …

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The National Bureau of Statistics says that private security guards companies employed no fewer than 828, 502 people in Nigeria from 2013 to 2018. The NBS made the disclosure in its Private Security Guards Data from 2013 to 2018 posted on its website on Monday. The bureau, based in Abuja explained that the guards were employed by 1, 110 registered …

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By Amos Odeh The people Aghoro 1 community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa has kicked against the breach of oil spill procedures in the leak that occurred in the area on May 17, 2018. It would be recalled that a leak on the Trans Ramos Pipeline that ruptured spilled about 1,114 barrels of crude oil into the environment. The …

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By Simon Ugwu The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) and All On have officially opened the application window for the 2019 Nigeria Off-Grid Energy Challenge, which will provide up to $100,000 in blended finance per enterprise for the successful applicants. The 2019 application window opens on February 1st and closes on March 15th, 2019. USADF, a founding member of Power …

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Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Bank Plc, Ifie Sekibo has tasked stakeholders in the sports industry to key into the vision of the bank to help build a generation of healthy and strong athletes as well as set a platform that will continue to create, preserve and transfer wealth and talents across generations. The MD made the remark at …

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