Police declare port corridor ticketing, revenue collection illegal
By Godwin Oritse The Western Ports Police Command has intervened in the brewing dispute between the Committee of Maritime Transport Unions and Associations (COMTUA) and the Lagos State Trucks and Cargo Operators Committee (LASTCOC) over the proposed sale of Lagos State revenue tickets along the Apapa and Tin Can Island port corridors. The intervention followed […]
Nigeria is not poor, but has people with poverty of ideas —EEEFY IKE
Eeefy Ify Ikeh is the Chief Executive Officer of Style is Innate, an outfit that is into hand-crafted jewelries made with exotic stones and exotic skin bags from Nigeria.
World Economic Forum on Africa attracts $68bn investments, says Organiser
The just concluded World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa has attracted over 68 billion dollars (about N12.9 trillion) in investment to the African continent, Dr Philipp Rosler, the Managing Director of the Forum, said. Rosler disclosed this in a closing remarks on Friday in Abuja
WEF: AU adopts Nigeria’s e-wallet strategy to boost agriculture
The African Union, AU, has adopted Nigeria’s e-wallet agriculture strategy with a view to ending fertilizer corruption on the continent as African leaders re-focus on deriving highest possible outputs from the sector as a growth-driver in the years ahead.
We are committed to ending malnutrition among African children—Dangote
On the sidelines of the WEF in Abuja, the Vice Chairman of Dangote Group and Executive Head of the Nigeria Agribusiness Group, Alhaji Sani Dangote, spoke on the move by his company to partner with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and donor agencies to produce high energy nutritious foods valued at $50 million, to check hunger and malnutrition among African children.
CoT reduction: Customers of top banks gain N7.6bn
Customers of the top five banks gained N7.67 billion in 2013 through the reduction in Commission on Turnover (CoT) charges mandated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
