THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has projected that it will need the sum of N30 billion to train about 10,000 seafarers in the next ten years.

CADBURY Nigeria PLC, has fortified consumers loyalty through partnerships with broadcasting stations and the popular Calabar Carnival

Nigeria is a country of absurd economic realities. The 12th largest crude oil producer in the world and the second largest economy in Africa earn an estimated $2.2 million a day in oil revenue.

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has advocated for speedy commercialisation and privatisation of the remaining business enterprises owned by both States and Federal Government, saying it will accelerate a private sector-led economy.

The Managing Director of Cooks Investment Limited (CIL), Mrs. Stella Oyelola, has called on the Federal Government to fast track all efforts to stablise the nation’s power sector, adding “ most small scale industries are folding up because of the state of power supply in Nigeria. He lamented that the problem of power supply has escalated running cost of everything in the business world.”

By Patience Ogbodo Jos — Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has warned local government chairmen against adopting a confrontational stance towards the state government, urging them to see themselves as partners in the task of developing the state. He stated this, yesterday, at the swearing in of Mr. Brian Dadi of Democratic Peoples’ Party, […]

By Patience Ogbodo BAUCHI — NO fewer than 500 people in Fadamar Jaji in Bauchi metropolis, Bauchi State have been rendered home-less as the state government demolished over 50 houses. The demolition has brought tears and sorrow to the victims who lamented bitterly that the government has been unfair to them. One of the victims […]

By Wole Mosadomi Minna — Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has presented a N111 billion budget estimate to the state House of Assembly for consideration. In the projected revenue, the state government is expected to get N33.4 billion from statutory allocation; N5.135 billion from Value Added Tax,VAT; N43.8 billion from capital receipt and internally generated revenue […]

By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO — Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State declared yesterday that he had reconciled with his estrange godfather, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) ahead of preparations for 2011 general election. Gov. Shekarau who is also the Sardaunan Kano told newsmen during a media lunch that the four years frosty relationship had been renewed […]

A Federal high court sitting in Abuja yesterday issued an interim order restraining the Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel from dissolving the Ijebu-Ife Local Government Council on the account of the mayhem which killed an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Omolodun Oladokun and several others.