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Month: February 2017

Turkish Airlines unveils direct flights between Antalya, Algeria

Turkish Airlines that flies to the most countries of the world continues to contribute to the Turkey’s tourism by launching its direct flights between Antalya and Algeria. The national flag carrier that flies to 296 destinations in 120 countries, now…

Fashola seeks speedy delivery of Kaduna-Abuja highway as closure of NAIA nears

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has called on the contractor handling the repair works on the Abuja-Kaduna highway to expedite action in the early delivery of the road so as to provide seamless movement of…

Fidelity Bank boosting SMEs to grow for export

Finishing touches are currently being given to the fourth stream of the Export management Programme at the Lagos Business School (LBS) being sponsored by Fidelity Bank as part of efforts to grow Small and medium Enterprises (SMEs). The scheme, introduced…

Customs hands over seized items to IDPs for the 3rd time in Yola

In keeping with Presidential directive, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) weekend handed over seized items, including food, clothes and toiletries, as relief materials to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Adamawa state. Taking the deliveries, the chairman of National Logistics Committee…

EU’s export ban on beans, others hobbling farmers export target

Whereas Nigerians are still divided on why Chief Audu Ogbeh is still seating as the Minister of Agriculture instead of resigning for not being able to effect the needed institutional corrections in the way and manner beans and related agricultural…

Naira crashing beyond N500 to dollar means 2017 capital budgets may collpase

It was the height of hopelessness weekend as naira crossed the unprecedented N500 to one dollar mark on the parallel market jumping to N506. But just as several economic and financial pundits remained divided weekend over the outlook for the…

Saraki raises another puzzle, says repair of Abuja airport not in 2016, 2017 budgets

At a time stakeholders are battling over where to route Abuja bond traffic during the planned six weeks closure for the repairs of the runway of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Senate President, Bukola Saraki has opened another angle of…

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Subscribers mull protest march to NCC over drop in quality of telecoms services

There were unprecedented frustrations and anger fuming out from several subscribers over what they described as the worst week of poor Quality of Services (QoS) across all GSM networks in Nigeria last week. Though efforts to get the position of…