Nigerian returnees from Libya have revealed how their search for financial freedom and a better life turned into a nightmare for them. On Tuesday, 161 Nigerians returned voluntarily from Libya, assisted by the International Organisation for Migration after being detained for several months in Libya. They said they travelled to the North African country with the hope of crossing to …

The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, says it will establish a $300m agribusiness loan project for youth farmers across the country. NIRSAL is an arm of the Central bank of Nigeria that provides agribusiness investments credit risk guarantees to help drive economic development through agriculture. The organisation also helps to reduce credit risk in agricultural lending. The …

Distributors of the Dangote foods companies, including Dangote Flour, Sugar and Salt smiled home last night as the management of the Companies doled out over N2 billion as rewards for their loyalty to the companies over the past one year.  At a colourful Gala night which the distributors were hosted to last night, top performers in each of the six …

From left:- Charles Chijide, Immediate Past President, Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria(OAAN); Kole Ademolegun, Past President, OAAN; Chief Dr Mrs Nike Akande, President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, (LCCI) and Tunde Adedoyin, President, OAAN during a courtesy visit and decoration of the LCCI President as the association’s patron,on Monday at the Commerce House. Advertisement

The Ministry of Budget and National Planning said its attention has been drawn to publications in a section of the media indicating that the Federal Government is planning to raise about N5 trillion from assets sale in the next four years. Specifically, the Budget Ministry said that the publications claimed that the projected amount is contained in the Economy Recovery …

  The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has employed the services of an auditing firm, KPMG, to look critically into the finances of Arik Air, which it took over last week, to determine its true financial status.   This came after the immediate past President of the Aviation Round Table (ART), Capt. Dele Ore, insisted that the airline’s problems …

The Federal Government says it will assist cassava farmers and processors to create linkage markets to guarantee export and sale of cassava chips at the international market. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said this at an Agribusiness Supplier Development Programme (ASDP) meeting organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ibadan on Tuesday. Represented …

The National Union of Road Transport Workers, Lagos Chapter, on Tuesday advised its members not to panic over the proposed ban on operations of yellow commercial buses. The state Chairman of the union, Mr. Tajudeen Agbede, on Tuesday said that the union was discussing the proposed ban with the government, adding that the union was ready to cooperate with the …

The Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare, Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases on Tuesday urged the National Primary Health Care Development Agency to authenticate the claim of Prof. Maduike Ezeibe of having a cure for HIV. The Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Mao Ohuabunwa, made the call during the agency’s budget defence in Abuja. Ezeibe, a researcher in Veterinary Medicine at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, …

It is no longer news ­that there is need to­ have an urgent, coor­dinated and sustained­ response to combat H­IV/AIDS in Nigeria. T­his can only be resu­lt driven when there ­are early government-­led efforts that seek­s to help coordinate ­public and private se­ctor activities as we­ll as the arrival of ­significant internati­onal funding. In a bid to hasten in­tervention and …