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By Comrade O’Seun John Recently, the media space has been awash with bickering reports between major players in the sugar industry. These reports have been laced with accusations of monopoly, sharp practices and insincerity between Dangote, Flour Mills and BUA companies. This conflict, irrespective of the strong positions of parties involved, requires the urgent attention
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***Master Plan may miss 2022 target By Emeka Anaeto Nigeria’s major backward integration policy, the National Sugar Master Plan, NSMP, appears to have run into controversy over level of compliance by beneficiary companies. This is coming as a change of guard occurs in the executive leadership of the Nigerian Sugar Development Council, NSDC, the NSMP
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By Nkiruka Nnorom •Investors reap 2.63% returns •As analysts advise investors to buy in tranches The equities market has consolidated the new year’s gaining streak following bargain hunting in leading companies last week including, Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN) Plc, Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc, Dangote Cement and Zenith Bank Plc, a development that has yielded
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Ola Ajayi – Ibadan An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has discharged and acquitted former Oyo State House of Assembly Chief whip, Hon. Olafisoye Akinmoyede and three others who were charged with the murder of a former member of the House of Representatives, Late Temitope Olatoye (aka Sugar). The ex-lawmaker who represented Lagelu/Akinyele
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The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, says the Sunti Golden Sugar Estates, a N64 billion investment by Flour Mills Plc (FMN) will contribute greatly to ending Nigeria’s Sugar Dependence. This is even as he commended the company for making the largest investment in sugar line with the Federal Government’s Sugar Master Plan
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As FMN plans to invest N34bn in 10 yrs, create 10, 000 jobs As Dangote says Nigeria to be self-sufficient in sugar soon By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Federal Government, at the weekend, commended the massive investment of N64 billion and thousands of jobs created by Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc ((FMN Group) on
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If you’re considering good health, consider saying goodbye to casual consumption of sugary drinks (soft drinks) or refined sugar. Why? Because in addition to being laced with potentially cancer-causing dyes, sugary drinks are the primary source of added sugar in your diet.
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ABUJA- The Federal Government says it will save $56 million in foreign exchange by reducing sugar importation while targeting yearly 1.7 million tonnes of local production.
Read More AS the Oyo State Police Command is making frantic efforts to unravel the mystery surrounding the murder of the member of the House of Representatives, the late Temitope Olatoye aka Sugar, his family has urged the public to disregard some reports alleging that the late lawmaker had been involved in violent attacks on some people in the past.
Read More Though the police in Oyo State said the death of Hon. Temitope Olatoye, aka ‘Sugar,’ a federal lawmaker from Lagelu/Akinyele Constituency, was not politically motivated, it would be difficult for his relatives, especially Hon. Olajide Olatoye, his elder brother, to believe that because it happened during penultimate Saturday elections.
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