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  • Banking sector loans to customers rise to N16.372trn

    The audited results of 2016 for 14 banks quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) have shown a 22 per cent increase in total loans and advances to their customers from N13.315 trillion in 2015, to N16.372...

    • Posted May 3, 2017
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  • Renewables can give 10,000mw with 50% CBN funding – SEPAN

    The Sustainable Energy Practitioners Association of Nigeria (SEPAN) has said with 50 per cent of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) power fund, 10,000 megawatts (mw) will be added to the electricity grid before 2020. The president,...

    • Posted May 3, 2017
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  • NLNG exports 4,000th cargo to Turkey

    Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG),yesterday said it exported its 4000th cargo of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from its Bonny Island Terminal in Rivers State to Mamara LNG Terminal in Turkey. The cargo shipped on board one of NLNG’s...

    • Posted May 3, 2017
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  • Electricity grid loses 429mw, drops to 3,598mw

    The Nigerian electricity grid has lost 429 megawatts (mw) last Sunday as it dropped to 3,598mw, when the April month ended. Industry statistics obtained yesterday indicated that generation had fluctuated significantly from the 4,518mw attained earlier in...

    • Posted May 3, 2017
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  • NGE urges media to promote government policies on economic diversification

    The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has called on the media to promote government policies which tend to encourage economic diversification as a way of getting out of the current and future economic challenges that have stymied...

    • Posted May 2, 2017
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  • Improved dollar liquidity may boost banks’ earnings

    The increase in dollar sales by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is giving banks in the country reason to cheer. The CBN increased sales of the U.S. currency to banks in late February to try and...

    • Posted May 2, 2017
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  • Zamfara state government to release N100m monthly for payment of gratuities

    The Zamfara State Government on Monday said it has reached agreement with the labour to pay N100 million monthly for the payment of gratuities to retired civil servants in the state. Gov. AbdulAziz Yari disclosed this at...

    • Posted May 2, 2017
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  • Reps to approve new minimum wage bill – Dogara

    Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara said the House is committed to approving the new minimum wage bill. In a statement by his spokesman, Turaki Hassan, to mark the 2017 Workers’ Day, Dogara reiterated the...

    • Posted May 2, 2017
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  • FRSC unveil advanced web-based portal for driver’s license, number plates

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has unveiled a more advanced web-based verification portal for driver’s license and number plates. Speaking yesterday at a training workshop for personnel of security agencies at the Corps headquarter Abuja, Corps...

    • Posted May 1, 2017
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  • Nigeria loses $850m to gas flaring in 2015- DPR

    The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR)  said that Nigeria, the ninth largest gas producing nation in the world, lost over 850 million dollars to gas flaring in 2015. Mrs Pat Maseli, Deputy Director, Head, Upstream, DPR, gave...

    • Posted May 1, 2017
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