Nigerians flay Yar’Adua’s BBC’s interview
THE interview granted to British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, by President Umaru Yar’Adua from his sick bed in Saudi Arabia, has done little to quell the opposition clamour for him to step down as president.
NUC commends LASUCOM on dental surgery programme
The Bachelor of Dental Surgery and Bachelor of Nursing Science programmes in the Lagos State University College of Medicine, Ikeja will soon take off as the Resource Assessment Visitation of the National Universities Commission (NUC) has visited the College.
Maritime Bank to kick off operation before April
Minister of Transport, Alhaji Ibrahim Isa Bio has said that the Maritime Development Bank for the Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa (MOWCA) would commence operations before the end of the first quarter of the year.
Group decries double valuation, examination of cargoes
A group under the aegisof Unified Customs Licensed Practitioners (UCLP) has decried the re-valuation and examination of cargoes at the ports, a development they alleged has given rise to increased corruption at the port.
FreightForwarders Council sets agenda for 2010
The Council for Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) is set to fully commence its statutory roles of sanitising and inducing professionalism into freight forwarding practice in Nigeria.
Opposition mounts against Cargo Tracking levy
REACTIONS and opposition continued to trail the newly approved Cargo Tracking Levy, which has been described as illegal. Some operators are of the opinion that it will make the nation’s ports unfriendly and costly.
Demutualisation: Nobody will hijack NSE, Onyiuke
Preparatory to its plan to go public (also known as demutualisation), Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Professor Ndi Okereke Onyiuke, yesterday allayed fears that the Exchange will not be hijacked by few money bags as being speculated.
VP to declare NACCIMA’s AGM open
The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), said its 49th Annual General Meeting / conference holding next week in Abuja will be declared opened by the Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
Tapping Youth Potential for Enterprise Revolution, a Niger Delta Perspective (1)
In June 2008, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) entered into a strategic partnership with the Delta State Government of Nigeria for youth empowerment and conflict resolution in the country’s most restive region. The collaboration is significant not just because oil extraction in the Niger Delta region sustains the national economy, but because it is critical to poverty reduction and sustainable economic and human development.
Prof Soyinka..Only a blighted Nation Neglects Its Brightest…
”Even in totalitarian states, the time comes when past errors are admitted. In Nigeria , we fail to establish a climate of inquiry.When power is placed in the service of vicious reaction a language must be called into being which does its best to appropriate such obscenity of power and fling its excesses back in its face.
LCCI faults NNPC’s dominance of downstream oil sector
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry(LCCI), has faulted the continued dominance of the down stream oil sector by the NNPC.
