ABEOKUTA-The Chairman, Ogun State House committee on Land Matters, Remmy Hassan, has said that an anonymous caller has offered him a N50 million bribe as an inducement to stop the on-going probe of land matters.
The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Levi Ajuonuma, weekend, in Lagos, said the planned removal of fuel subsidy would enable government plough back the huge annual subsidy on provision of some basic infrastructure as well as facilitate the entry of private investments in refineries, petrochemicals and allied products.
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has finalised arrangement to collaborate with a German Agency for the purpose of developing micro insurance in Nigeria .
ONITSHA- All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE and Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Anambra State, have condemned the recent sack of about 1,800 Anambra natives by Abia State Government over the new minimum wage.
Capital Express Assurance Limited has said that the company recorded gross premium of N1.89 billion in 2010 financial period.
Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc has paid out claims totaling N835.9 million in the last nine months between January and September 2011.
Umuahia- THERE are indications that traditional rulers in the South-East may wade into the face-off between Abia State Government and its counterparts in the South-East over the disengagement of non-indigenes working in the state’s civil service.
Stakeholders will tomorrow converge in Abuja to deliberate on the lingering housing crisis confronting the country since independence.
The Loya milk brand has been below the milk segment ladder over time, for this reason, Promasidor Nigeria Limited owners of the product embarked on a sales promo designed to deepen the brand’s visibility in the premium milk market, but Princewill Ekwujuru acknowledged it’s a step in the right direction, but yet there remains some questions to be answered by organisers of the promo.
LAGOS- As the controversy over the removal of fuel subsidy rages, President Goodluck Jonathan has been advised to seek for the wisdom of God as Nigeria is too large to be ruled by political wisdom.
Aiico Insurance Plc has said that the claims paid by the company in the first eight months of this financial year rose from N1.4 billion in 2010 to N2.44 billion in 2011 financial period.
The Association of registered Insurance Agents of Nigeria (ARIAN) said the war against fake insurance agents is a big war and it will continue to work in conjunction with NAICOM to ensure that the perennial societal problem of fake agents was eradicated.
Africa’s new scramble for oil is heading east, where the potential could be huge but the risks are far higher than in the well-established sector on the continent’s west coast.
OWERRI-Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Okigwe South, Rt. Rev. David Onuoha, has warned that unless something drastic was done to stop corruption in the country, it could threaten Nigeria’s continued existence.
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