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Senate begins process of introducing Oil Community Devt Bill

In keeping the segmentation of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has stated that the Senate will introduce a host community legislation to complement the Governance and Institutional Framework Bill of the revised Petroleum Industry…

Access Bank facilitates Techno Oil, CAKASA deal on LPG plant

Access Bank Plc has driven Techno Oil Limited and CAKASA Nigeria Limited to ink a new agreement on Friday for the construction of an automated Liquefied Petroleum Gas terminal. The 12,000 metric tonnes capacity project is expected to be the…

W/Bank boosts 10,845 tomato farmers in Kano for Dangote farms

The World Bank had relied on a Memorandum of Understanding between Dangote Tomato Company and Fadama Production Cluster Group on profitable marketing of tomato to boost the activities of10,845 farmers in the last 10 months. The achieved the feat using…

Expert berates FG for delay in designing Economic Recovery Plan

Lagos Economist and fiscal analyst, Dr. Ken Igboango has chided the Minister of State for National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed for telling Nigerians that government will release a document that will be the roadmap for the recovery of the economy….

2017 budget may be delayed as Senate, Udoma exchange blames over MTEF

There are indications that the call by some experts to sack the Minister of National Planning, Mr. Udo Udoma for poor performance may not be in error as the Senate Thursday observed that the MTEF lately presented to the Red…

Banking/Investments

Senate joins NPA to plan review of port concession deals

Members of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, Friday joined the leadership of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to warn that it would revoke the port concession agreement with any terminal operator that failed to fulfil the terms and agreement…

Turkish Airline deploys video tech for in-flight safety

As part of new moves to boost security and passenger protection in-flight, Turkish Airlines, has produced a new in-flight safety video, riding on latest High Definition technology, to improve the safety of its passengers in Nigeria and other countries of…

Obiano deepens skills acquisition training for Anambra youths

Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has Flaged -ff of the Maiden Skills acquisition training for 150 youths at the Federal Youth Development Centre, Mgbakwu, Awka South Local Government Area, Anambra State. The governor in his address said the…

Shippers’ Council achieves 35% budget performance in 9 months

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has said that it has recorded 35% performance in the implementation of the 2016 budget between the period of January and September 2016. The Executive Secretary, Barr. Hassan Bello revealed this before the members of…

Access Bank, Rivers train indigent women in entrepreneurship

Access Bank Plc, in partnership with office of the Rivers State Governor’s wife recently organized a capacity building workshop for female business owners in the state. The partnership is powered by ‘W Academy’, a skill training window developed by the…