All posts by Ifreke Inyang
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Airlines may stop flights to Kano, Maiduguri over bomb attacks
Domestic airlines operating flights into Kano, Maiduguri, Yola and other volatile cities the North are currently carrying out safety and security audits of their operations to determine whether they should continue flying to the cities or not....
- Posted March 22, 2013
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Globacom wins back sponsorship right of the NPL
Telecommunications giant Globacom has won back the sponsorship right of the Nigeria Premier League. The interim chairman of the League Management Company (LMC) Nduka Irabor who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Abuja, said the LMC has...
- Posted March 21, 2013
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Niger government to spend N17bn on rice project
The Niger Government said on Wednesday that it had entered into agreement with some commercial banks to inject N17 billion over the next three years on rice cultivation in the state. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Ahmed ...
- Posted March 21, 2013
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Expert canvasses use of mobile marketing strategy among hoteliers
A tourism expert, Joseph George, has canvassed for the use of mobile marketing strategy by hoteliers to boost their businesses. George said in Abuja on Wednesday that mobile marketing was the most effective and convenient means of marketing for...
- Posted March 21, 2013
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Investors pay N73bn for PHCN successor firms
ELEVEN bidders for the successor companies of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, have paid $469, 031,940.46 (about N73,638,014,580 billion), representing the mandatory 25 percent of the offer of their bids. The deadline for the payment of...
- Posted March 21, 2013
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I will not renew my contract with Central Bank – Sanusi
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Lamido Sanusi Lamido has said that he will not renew his contract when it expires. According to a report by CNBC.com, Sanusi said he was never interested...
- Posted March 21, 2013
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NBS releases February CPI as inflation rises to 9.5%
The National Bureau of Statistic (NBS) has release the Composite Price Index (CPI) for February, 2013 with inflation rising by 9.5% year on year compared to 9.0% in January. In releasing the February CPI, the Statistician General...
- Posted March 20, 2013
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CBN retains MPR, CRR at 12% and Liquidity Ratio at 30%
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the end its monthly Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting took a drastic decision of retaining the Monetary Policy Ratio (MPR),Cash Reserve Requirement (CRR) at 12% and Liquidity Ratio at 30%...
- Posted March 20, 2013
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Nigeria, France trade volume hits $7billion
Trade between Nigeria and France currently stands at $7 billion, Nigeria’s envoy to France, Ambassador Akin Fayomi, has said. Fayomi said on Tuesday, in Paris, said that the figure represented the volume of trade in 2012. “As...
- Posted March 20, 2013
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Lagos State begins registration of farmers
The Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture has commenced the registration of farmers in the 381 wards in Lagos State, in collaboration with Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Mr Adegbola Olusi, a Director in the federal...
- Posted March 20, 2013