A  new season of ‘Akpan & Oduma’, one of the most-popular Nigerian comedy skit shows on YouTube and Satellite TV, will start showing from Monday, July 29,  on wapTV’s Satellite network on DStv 262, StarTimes 116, GOtv 102, StarSat 189, PlayTV 275, TStv 223, and MyTV.

SHIPPING firms are concentrating their container charges on Nigerian shippers and their agents, referred to as Customs brokers, because their businesses and operations have been classified as unstructured.

Since the news broke that popular singers, Adekunle Gold and Simi got married secretly, they have kept mum on the matter.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, a regulatory agency responsible for regulating and controlling importation, manufacture and use of food, drugs and packaged water in Nigeria has said that Eva Water produced and bottled by Nigerian Bottling Company Limited is safe for consumption, assuring consumers and the general public of their safety.

THE Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has engaged the maritime industry’s key stakeholders and leaders in the reappraisal of some key challenges facing operators in the industry. The stakeholder groups comprising the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN, and the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, NAGAFF, had headed to the NPA to raise issues of concern with the Authority.

ABUJA—THE Senate has summoned the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mele Lolo Kyari, and the yet-to -be appointed Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, to appear before it and explain the status of existing refineries in the country.

Kaduna— Senator representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani, yesterday, in Abuja, said a measles outbreak in Wusar, a community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has claimed the lives of no fewer than 100 children .

YENAGOA— BAYELSA State government said it has formalised the employment of 904 casual staff in the various ministries, departments and agencies in the state.

THE trouble with Nigeria, Chinua Achebe once famously said, is squarely one of leadership. Most Nigerians and others who have taken more than a fleeting interest in those issues of development that coalesce under the rubric of national question have repeatedly identified with this prognosis of our national malaise.

LG Electronics at the weekend showcased its wide range of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems at the Mega Clima HVAC Exhibition in Lagos.

IN the past three years, 127 Nigerians have been murdered in South Africa. Mrs. Elizabeth Ndubisi-Chukwu, Deputy Director-General of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, CIIN, who was strangled in her hotel room on June 13, 2019 at Kempton Park while attending a conference, is the latest and the most prominent victim thus far.

NSUKKA—The sleepy Igogoro village in Enugu-Ezike, Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State was thrown into mourning and panic, Monday night, as eight construction workers died in a septic tank.

ABUJA—PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, assured Nigerians that his administration will not return the country to the days of exporting jobs through the importation of food and clothing items that can be produced locally.

THE Jigawa State Con-tributory Pension Scheme, CPS, was established by the administration of former Governor Ibrahim Saminu Turaki in 2001 and received legal backing from the state legislature in 2004. The asset of the scheme as at March this year was over N20 billion.

The Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has decried the incessant protest being staged by members of the Islamic Movement in the Nigeria, IMN, over the detention of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The centre said IMN members were using terror and violence to subvert justice in ongoing trial of El- Zakzakky. CESJET made […]