THE Director-General of  the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside has said Nigeria’s ship registry is currently the largest in Africa after the Liberian.

A lot of people who talk about “social media” today think that the phenomenon started with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like.

With an anticipated annual labour market entry of about 11million youths in the next 10years, it’s crucial for Nigeria and Africa to become introspective about preparing the future workforce.

There’s no gainsaying that had other sectors of the economy performed like the telecom sector in 2019, the Nigerian economy would have become better than it is. Going by the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, the sector contributed 10.11 percent to Gross Domestic Product, GDP in the first quarter of the year, 11.39 percent in the second quarter and 11.34 percent in the third quarter.

ENUGU- RESPITE came the ways of inhabitants of Home for the Elderly, lepers, disabled persons, the abandoned, motherless and indigent patients, when a group-Friends De Royale International Club visited their homes and hospital in different parts of Enugu to offer palliative and made them participate in the celebration of Christmas, a commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

e-Commerce platform, Jumia, has created an advertising space on its site, allowing brands and corporate organisations to showcase their goods and services as advertisements. 

THE Shippers Association of Lagos State, SALS, has warned that unless urgent measures are taken to address stacking of containers at the nation’s port quay apron, the facility would soon collapse.

ELDER statesman and former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, has faulted the decision of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to borrow $29.9 billion to develop infrastructure, saying the president should have embarked on restructuring the economy and the nation’s governance structure before seeking more loans.

A new game, called PREWIN, kicks off in January to add to the numerous game apps donning the Nigerian mobile game space.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) have executed agreements over the multi-billion dollars Escravos Gas-to-Liquid (EGTL) project.

THE traffic gridlock at the Tin-can Island port is being compounded by officials of the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police who use their uniform to break traffic rules with the intention of assisting trucks into the port for a fee.

THE Federal Government, through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, spent N12.69 billion to subsidise Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, in five days, between Monday, December 16 and Friday, December 20, 2019.

The Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (NImechE) is collaborating with the United Kingdom-based Royal Academy of Engineering on a project that will see engineering students of Nigeria’s tertiary institutions and young graduates compete for innovative ideas tagged, Forging Africa’s Future Mechanical Engineers (FAFME).

ONE of the immediate gains of the pro-democracy fight against military rule was the shift of power from the north to the south. At the time Olusegun Obasanjo was inaugurated as an elected president in 1999, the country had been under northern leadership for about thirty-five years!

DEPUTY Registrar of Ships for Liberian Government, Capt. Tony Onoharigho, has advised Nigerian government against direct disbursement from the Cabotage Vessel Finance Fund, CVFF. This, according to him, is to avoid another mismanagement of ship acquisition scheme like happened with the Ship Acquisition and Ship Building Fund, SASBF.