The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), has tabled ten intervention areas for the new Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

Recently, freight forwarders at the PTML Customs Command protested the alleged increment of charges at the Command . The quick intervention of the Command’s Area Comptroller Mr Austen Warikoru who spoke to GODWIN ORITSE on how he was able to quell the crisis also said that he has observed that Nigerian do not like paying taxes.
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Further, Agbai said the objective of the fair is to promote accelerated development of educational system to meet global standards, to promote comparative judgement of schools in a single occassion and provide a real snap shot of public and private schools.

Prof. Aigbomian thanked all in the university for their support which resulted in the successful completion of his tenure and also congratulated the Acting Vice Chancellor on his new appointment.

He maintained that he was the first to notice the abnormally in the e-payment system and drew the management attention to it but after thorough investigation, “I discovered that it was nothing but a computer error from the office of the Accountant-General of the state,” he said, adding that the money had been paid back into government confers by the school’s management.

For the first time, a world patented, Nano technology-based water soluble waterproofing agent known as Zycocil has been introduced into the Nigerian market to boost building and engineering construction in the country.
It can be easily applied by spray brush or roller to new and existing masonry structures to protect them from mildew, fungus, efflorescence, leaching, stains, premature ageing, scaling, spalling and corrosion of reinforced steel.

Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Tuesday, declared it hasn’t quit its independent power projects (IPP) for major industrial axises in Lagos, Ogun, and Kano State, respectively.

HIGH profile textile technocrats, economists, bankers, administrators and practitioners from within and outside the country will converge this month in Lagos to explore a fresh path to the revival of Nigeria’s Textile Industry.

THE Federal Government has planned to involve the Civil Society Organisation (CSO) in the assessment and monitoring of the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS).

By Dominic Kidzu THIS is the story of South- Eastern State, the story of old Cross River State, too. But more importantly, it is the story of the new Cross River and Akwa Ibom states. Two states, one people, one destiny, bonded by geography, history, heritage and blood. And also united so deeply by parentage, […]

UNIDO’s Industrial Development Board has approved Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella of Sierra Leone to serve a second term in office as the Director-General of the Organization (UNIDO).

The National Poverty eradication programme NAPEP and the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, have agreed to work more closely for the good of the poor and overall development of the country.

THE Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service has queried the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority over the unpaid pensions, allowances, benefits and gratuity of some retirees of the authority.
In letter to the Managing Director of the authority, the Committee lamented the inaction of the management of NPA over the matter of its former workers.

Following years of complains and petitions by the leadership of the Senior Staff Association of the Nigerian Ports Authority (SSANPA) over the sale of the authority’s properties, the House Committee on Marine Transport is set to institute a probe to ascertain the sale.

THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas Company are currently at each other’s throat over the latter’s blatant refusal to pay its statutory three per cent freight rate of over N24billion.