In a bid to boost local production of smart cards to meet the growing needs of banks and other institutions in the private and public sectors of the economy, electronic Payplus Limited commissioned its Ultra modern card personalisation plant in Lagos.

The Federal Government has released 45,000 tonnes of assorted grains, from the National Strategic Food Reserve (NSFR); to the general public, to cushion the effect of high prices of food commodities in the Country. The grains are paddy rice, gari, millet, maize and sorghum.

Fishermen in Ibeno, Southern Akwa Ibom, said they have reported the discharge of liquid suspected to be crude oil at the Qua Iboe oil fields in the Atlantic Ocean. Chief Inyang Ekong, the Secretary of the Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria in Akwa Ibom disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibeno, Akwa Ibom.

Nigeria’s women team, Falconets sailed into the quarter-final of the FIFA Women Under-20 World Cup after playing a 1-1 draw with Mexico in their last group C game in Bochum, Germany.

Shareholders of FCMB Plc have unanimously endorsed the proposal by its Board of Directors to increase the share capital of the bank by 575 million shares.

Shareholders of FCMB Plc have unanimously endorsed the proposal by its Board of Directors to increase the share capital of the bank by 575 million shares.

THE Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has refused to pay its retirees their approved increment in pensions despite several directives from both the Senate Committee on Marine and House Representative Committee on Transport.

Stakeholaders in the oil industry in Akwa Ibom State, have continued to blame last week’s statement by Mobil Producing Nigeria, MPN, denying and dissociating itself from oil spill compensation forms circulating in the state.

THE Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Barrister Temisan Omatseye has lamented the absence of a policy frame work, which has militated against investment in the Nigerian Maritime industry.

THE management of APM Terminals Apapa Limited has uncovered import duty fraud running into about N23.4 million involving six licensed customs agents at the terminal.