The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has smashed a syndicate which specialised in smuggling hard drugs within the country through courier, arresting two suspects.
Mr Ernest Ndukwe, Executive Vice-Chairman, Nigerian Commu-nications Commission (NCC), says there are no plans to licence more telecommuni-cations operators in the country.
Sixty-Eight sacked staff of the National Insurance Commission, have dragged the Commission and its Commissioner for Insurance, Mr Fola Daniel, before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, challenging their sack from the commission.
The Executive Vice Chairman of Industrial and General Insurance Plc, (IGI), Mr. Remi Olowude has donated an ultra-modern X-Ray equipment to the Health Centre of the Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
In a renewed vigour to providing enabling platform for businesses to thrive, using ICT and latest training facilities, ChamsCity, the business unit of Chams Plc begun a 5 – day partnership training programs with Microsoft through which Microsoft would train its technical partners and developers.
Even with the expected peace in the Niger-Delta resulting from Federal Government’s amnesty, insurers are still wary of the region. FBN Insurance Brokers CEO, Val Ojumah, an acclaimed international broker, advises that local insurers should still stay away from the business in that region, ostensibly for reasons of the special skills needed for the peculiar risks.
NEM Insurance, last Friday, commissioned its Ghana office with a promise to provide quality and speedy services to the public and as well become the insurer of choice for most Ghanaians.
A Federal High Court sitting Lagos will tomorrow, resume hearing in the suit challenging the right of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, to unilaterally print and disburse money without recourse to the National Assembly. Trial judge in the matter is Justice Fatima Nyako.
The controversy surrounding the N4.75 billion Sunborn Yacht Hotel may not end soon as the Lagos State House of Assembly has again summoned the Commissioner for Tourism and Inter-Governmental Relations, Mr Tokunbo Afikuyomi.
Airport Command of Nigeria Police Force has again warned motorcyclists, also known as Okada riders, to stay away from the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, following attempt by some riders to rob a man of N1.8 million and other valuables around the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the airport.
Stakeholders in the manufacturing sector have identified the continuing rise in inflation and lack of infrastructural facilities as factors militating against the sector even as they declared that the nation’s manufacturing sector has been operating in a sub-optional environment over the years due to various challenges.
The committee’s terms of reference were derived from the letter CM /211 / 455 of 1 April 2005 issued by the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Ufot J. Ekaete, CFR, mni, as stated hereunder:
The conviction of Chief Olabode George, former Chairman Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), and four other board members, Monday at the court of Justice Joseph Olubunmi Oyewole, in Ikeja Lagos, marks a great reference point in the investigation, prosecution, and trial of corruption cases in Nigeria.
By Anayo Okoli
Umuahia—ABIA State Government has said it would soon sign into law the bill passed by the State House of Assembly for the establishment of an oil producing areas development commission (ASOPADEC).
Governor Theodore Orji gave the promise in Umuahia yesterday, when he received a delegation of host communities producing oil and [...]
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