All posts by BusinessNews Staff

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  How to secure grants, scholarships for academic programme

  Many young people have had to drop out of schools at critical age and stage when their parents can no longer cope with the burden of school fees, cost of books and other vital things needed to...

  • Posted May 1, 2011
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  Nestle Turnover Hits N82.7bn

  A foremost indigenous food and beverage firm, Nestle Nigeria Plc, has recorded a turnover of N82.726 billion in its financial year of 2010. This was made known during the company’s 42nd Annual General Meeting held at the City Hall, Onikan,...

  • Posted May 1, 2011
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  Promasidor Fetes Orphans with Live Concert

  More than two hundred children from different motherless homes in Lagos got a chance of a lifetime at the weekend when they were given the opportunity to watch the Little Big Club concert, a live show sponsored by Promasidor...

  • Posted May 1, 2011
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• Successful Elections, Good for Nigeria’s Reputation – PRCAN

  The Public Relations Consultants Association of Nigeria has congratulated Nigerians and their government for the successful conduct of the 2011 general elections and for the sustenance of elections four times in a row since the return of civil democracy...

  • Posted May 1, 2011
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  ILO Records 337m Workplace Accidents

  nternational Labour Organisation, (ILO) has said that an estimated 337 million workplace accidents and 2.3 million deaths occur every year across the globe as a result of occupational injuries and work-related diseases. This comes just as the international labour centre last...

  • Posted May 1, 2011
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  PIB: Uncertainty over Petroleum Equalisation Fund

  Oil marketers at the weekend expressed uncertainty over the role of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund Management Board after the enactment into law of the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill. The confusion over the future role of the fund came on the heels...

  • Posted May 1, 2011
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  Liquidator Insists on Transparent Sale of NECOM House

  More light was thrown on the controversy surrounding the sale of the 37-story NECOM House on Marina, Lagos  Island that used to belong to NITEL, with the revelation by the liquidator of the NITEL/MTEL Pension Fund, Otunba Olusola Adekanola, that the board...

  • Posted May 1, 2011
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  First Bank declares N15.7bn profit in Q1

  First Bank of Nigeria Plc has declared a N15.7 billion profit before tax, about 1.9 per cent over N15.4 billion recorded in the same period in 2010. In its unaudited results for the three-month period ended  March...

  • Posted April 30, 2011
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  Sterling Bank earns N9.1bn in Q1

  Sterling Bank Plc has posted gross earnings ofN9.1 billion for the unaudited first  quarter results ended 31 March, 2011, indicating a growth of 9 per cent over  the N8.3 billion in the comparable period of the previous...

  • Posted April 30, 2011
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  New uniform account number takes-off June

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released Uniform Bank account number (NUBAN) to Nigeria commercial banks for the purpose of full implementation to achieve uniform customer bank account in the country. In a memo to the...

  • Posted April 30, 2011
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