The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has taken delivery of two brand new helicopters with a view to fighting smuggling and bringing it to the barest mimimum.

African Circle Limited, a marine waste management firm has acquired four new vessels to tackle pollution and other marine waste in the nation’s coastal waters in line with the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) objectives of safer and cleaner water for shipping activities.

Standards Organization of Nigeria is set to commence a series of activities to kick-start the celebration of the Nigerian Quality Week 2009 in Kano for industries and stakeholders in the Northern Zone of the country.

The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Dr Barth Ebong has said that given the current global financial meltdown, the nation’s economy needs to be stimulated particularly to give the banking public the motivation and leverage to deepen banking culture.

In its bid to gear itself to match up to the task of deep offshore oil exploration two years after signing the Production Sharing Contract, PSC, ONGC Mittal Energy Limited, OMEL has set up a full-fledged establishment with human resource and state-of-the-art equipment as the company unveiled its new office and seismic data processing and interpretation centre in Lagos.