NEPC partners USAID to create 340,000 jobs from cashew export
No fewer than 340,000 new jobs would be created in the next five years with the implementation of a new Cashew Export Strategy Programme initiated last week in Lagos by the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, the National Cashew Association of Nigeria and USAID/NEXTT.
Wing Towers: Redefining Nigeria’s business environment
A consortium, comprising Oando Plc, Argentil Asset Management, Standard Bank and RMB Westport, is set to deliver a twin tower office complex with state of the art features, christened, The Wing Towers, on Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Fuel tanker explosion kills 15 in Ibadan
No fewer than 15 persons were roasted late Saturday night as a fully loaded petrol tanker exploded at Molete in Ibadan, Oyo State. The petrol tanker fell while trying to negotiate a bend.
Summit on CSR tasks firms on sustainability
Speakers at a two day summit on Corporate Social Responsibility organised by CSR West Africa in Lagos has called on corporate organisations to ensure inculcation of sustainability elements on their corporate social responsibility strategies.
Alaafin lauds president’s leadership style
THE Alaafin of Oyo State, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, has commended President Goodluck Jonathan, for his exemplary leadership style, saying he has presented himself as the much expected leader Africa has been waiting for.
Amosun’s convoy in auto crash, two aides, others injured
The convoy of Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, was Sunday involved in an accident, leaving his aides with injuries.
Family members, associates remember Agbeyegbe 10yrs after
Ten years after Capt. Jerry Agbeyegbe was felled by bullets from yet-to-be-identified assassins in Lagos, family members, aviation industry players and associates yesterday held a remembrance in his honour.
Nigeria creates 1.7m jobs, private sector major employer – CBN
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has told the international financial community that the Nigerian economy created in 2013, a total of 1.2 million jobs.
2015: Ogoni dedicate governorship project to God
Determined to ensure that an Ogoni occupies the Rivers State Government House in 2015, the people of the ethnic nationality have dedicated their Governorship bid, tagged “Ogoni project 2015” to God.
Bayelsa confab delegates task N’Assembly, govs on implementation of recommendations
Bayelsa State delegates to the just concluded National Conference, weekend, called on the governors, members of the National Assembly and other interest groups across the six geo-political zones to ensure the implementation of recommendations of the conference, including the 18 per cent derivation fund, insisting that oil producing states would not go for anything less.
Buhari visits Fashola, seeks support for 2015 Presidential bid
The former Head of State, Major-General Mahammadu Buhari (retd), Sunday, paid a visit to Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State to deliver a special invitation to the formal declaration of his intention to contest the nation’s 2015 Presidential Election.
