The National Union of Air Transport Employees ,NUATE, has revealed that foreign airlines plan to sack about two thousand (2,000) Nigerian workers due to what they claimed is their inability to transfer their earnings to their respective home countries to meet operational costs in accordance with international rules because of new Central Bank of Nigeria , CBN, policy on forex and fund transfer.

Mohamed Salah said yesterday he breathed a sigh of relief when the referee blew the final whistle in the 1-1 draw in Nigeria as he was on his way to one-on-one chance to score because hundreds of home fans were watching the game on the side track around the court.

President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed this at a two-day National Economic Council retreat in Abuja last week. He said the Federal Government will provide 250,000 units, the 22 States controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) are expected to jointly provide 250,000 houses while foreign investors and their local partners would provide the remaining 500,000 units.

GE Global Research partnered with Amphenol Advanced Sensors, Ford Motor Company and the University of Michigan to make more efficient batteries and take some of the cost out. The Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is sponsoring the project.

After several years of gangsters’ siege in Mushin, Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode, has restored peace to the beleaguered community, an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, Mr Dawodu Olatunji, said yesterday.

The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to return Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in camps to military liberated communities in the state.

Kano State government has said that it would support current effort by the Federal Government to carve out grazing reserve for herdsmen across the country.

Governor Sam Ortom of Benue State has expressed his state government’s commitment to partner with the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), to ensure agriculture produces from the state are certified for export.

As the Federal Government takes steps to establish grazing land for marauding Fulani herdsmen as a way of ending the frequent clashes between the herdsmen and farmers in the country, the Benue State government has maintained that establishment of ranches remained a panacea for the crisis.

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has said that the proposed biometric exercise and the verification of workers through the presentation of Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) will end delay in the payment of salaries in the State.

CHRISTIANS yesterday celebrated the resurrection of the progenitor of Christianity, regarded as the hallmark of the Christian faith as they trooped to churches with several clerics charging Nigerians to draw inspirations from the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and love and forgive one another for the progress and development of the nation.

A mortgage is a loan secured from a mortgage lender to buy a property for the purpose of home-ownership, and paid off in installments over a set period of time. The length of time that the borrower agrees to take to pay off the loan is known as the Tenor of the mortgage.

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THE National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, (NCMDLCA) has said that the truck registration fee presently being collected from truck owners by the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, (NPA), is illegal and against the concession agreement.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has generated no less than six million jobs through intervention funding since 2009, even as many Nigerians have expressed shock over calls for the sack of the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele because of the bank’s monetary policies. They say the bank has done well and should be commended instead of being lampooned.