Yar’ Adua strengthens NIMET’s capacity to deliver real time weather report
The federal government has procured six Doppler weather radars to be installed at airports across the country latest January 2010.It has also installed low level wind shear alert system in, at least, three airports in the country to save airline operations from the debilitating effects of wind shear, especially as the phenomenon was blamed partly for Sosoliso and ADC plane crashes in 2005 and 2006.
FG moves to peg interest rate at 5%
By Funmi Komolafe in Geneva GENEVA—In its bid to create more job opportunities and expand existing ones, the Federal Government is to compel banks to fund the real sector and reduce interest rate for manufacturers to five per cent. Also, a high-powered multi- disciplinary employment mission of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) is to visit […]
PENGASSAN threatens showdown with oil firms
According to him: “These companies have, in addition to their various anti-labour practices, also sacked and suspended PENGASSAN members unprocedurally and without due process.
Ports reform: Reps carpets Aondoakaa, BPE
By Tordue Salem ABUJA — Members of the House of Representatives yesterday blamed the the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) for failing to push through reforms in the marine transport sector. The lawmakers passed the blame at a public hearing on the Ports Act (Amendment) Bill.
Democracy, worth celebrating — Kumuyi
By Chinyere Amalu ABUJA—Contrary to opinions of some Nigerians that the celebration of 10th Anniversary of the country’s Democracy is a charade, the General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi said, “there is something to celebrateâ€.
Plane loaded with arms seized in Kano
The cargo plane with registration number UR-CAK, and a crew of four was believed to be heading to Equatorial Guinea when it suddenly made a technical landing in Kano at about 2.00 a.m. yesterday.
