The Vice- Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Professor Ishaq Oloyede has said that the university will never join the national leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in any of its strikes, saying that its sense of probity was profound and that posterity will always vindicate the university.

Banks have stepped up efforts to maintain customer patronage through Customer Care Center aimed at ensuring customer satisfaction.
In the last two weeks, a number of banks, in quick succession, launched their customer care centres in Lagos to maintain a grip on their customers.

FOLLOWING seven years of unimpressive financial performance, Nigerian Wire Industries Plc (NIWIL) finally returned to profitability, as it posted a profit after tax of N2.8 million in 2008 financial year.

THE Managing Director of Unilever Plc, Thomas Boedinger has restated the need for improved infrastructure in order to foster a healthy environment for industrial growth and global competitiveness in the country.

TOTAL Co-operative Society has been dragged before a Lagos high court by one Mazi Obi Adindu of Festac Town, Lagos over alleged fraudulent breach of contract involving land acquisition.

•As govt empowers Police with patrol vans, APC By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government’s sustained  onslaught on insecurity in the state seems to be getting a special boost from corporate organisations who have enthusiastically embraced its Public Private Partnership (PPP) policy in the area of crime prevention and control.

ABUJA – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed plans to present the Petroleum Industry Bill to the World Bank, in a bid to get the global financial institution’s buy-in into the reforms.

ORGANISED labour in the nation’s upstream sector of the petroleum industry, has petitioned the National Assembly over the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) now before the lawmakers, recommending among others, that the proposed Integrated Joint Venture Companies (IJVs) should include host communities in the owner structures similar to the Eleme/Indorama Petrochemical ownership model and the Solid mineral act both of which have specific and defined provisions for community participation.

THE proposed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), has continued to received knocks from stakeholders and other concerned individuals and groups with workers in the upstream sector of the petroleum industry faulting among others, the absence of specific provisions on expatriate quota and local manpower training.

Major operators in downstream petroleum sector have thrown their weight behind the OTL Africa Downstream Conference & Exhibition 2009.

ABUJA – NIGERIA ’S quest to ensure effective gas utilisation received a major boost with the announcement that the gas utilisation project at the Ovade-Ogharafe oil field in Delta state has been successfully registered under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol.

ABUJA – THE European Union has blamed the Nigerian system for the country’s inability to generate enough energy to meet local demand as well as help propel industrial and economic growth and development.

THE Nigerian Senate has affirmed its commitment to the smooth passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which is designed to provide legal and regulatory framework for the oil industry, in what appears a resolute move to place Nigeria in the league of first class oil producing nations.

THE Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Dr. Abdalla S. El-Badri, has said that it is not the place of the organisation to interfere in local problems of member countries, even when such problems impinge on the achievement of the collective ambition of the group.

By Aliyu Dangida DUTSE – THE Brazilian government has pledged to partner with the Jigawa State government for the establishment of ethanol energy source and sugar factory, describing the state as the most suitable land that has the potentials ready for the projects. The Brazilian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mrs. Ana Candida Perez, made the observation […]