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  • NUPENG decries exploitation of petrol station workers

    NIGERIA Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has decried the exploitation of petrol station workers by their employers, saying the workers must be unionized to check employers’ abuses. NUPENG’s General Secretary, Comrade Isaac  Aberare, who...

    • Posted September 3, 2013
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  • 350,000 farmers in Kaduna benefit from GES

    More than 350,000 farmers in Kaduna State have benefited from the supply of fertiliser and seeds under the Agricultural Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES) of the Federal Government, an official has said. The state Director, Agricultural Transformation Agenda...

    • Posted September 3, 2013
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  • FCT Administration targets N500bn PPP investments

    The Federal Capital Territory Administration has said it is accessing about N500bn investments for  infrastructure development and has also put machinery in motion to access more in the years ahead. The Minister of the Federal Capital territory,...

    • Posted September 3, 2013
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  • Conoil whets shareholders appetite with 255% half year profit

    By declaring a 255 per cent increase in profits in the first half of the year, Conoil Plc has further raised investors’ appetite in its stocks, reports Festus Akanbi That the times are indeed bad, in the...

    • Posted September 2, 2013
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  • Nigeria loses $800m to medical tourism yearly

    The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) said on Sunday that Nigeria was losing some $800 million (about N125 billion) annually to medical tourism. The National President of the NMA, Dr Osahon Enabulele, made the announcement in Sokoto at...

    • Posted September 2, 2013
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  • FG reiterates commitment to reducing cost, time of doing business

    The Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr Olusegun Aganga, has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to reduce cost and time of doing business in the country. Aganga said this at the opening ceremony of the Lagos-Kano-Jibiya (LAKAJI) Agricultural...

    • Posted September 2, 2013
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  • Domestic airlines to increase air fares

    Rattled by sundry government’s charges and soaring aviation fuel price, domestic airlines are planning to raise their airfares to avert going bankrupt, airlines sources have said. The accounts of virtually all the domestic airlines are currently in...

    • Posted September 2, 2013
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  • Diamond Bank commits N150bn to oil, gas financing

    The Corporate Banking Director, Diamond Bank Plc, Mr. Samuel Egube, has said that the bank has put together about $1bn (N150bn) for the funding of oil and gas projects in Nigeria. Egube, in an interview on the...

    • Posted September 2, 2013
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  • Presco, PZ Wilmar, Okomu battle to dominate vegetable oil market

    In this report about the intense but latent battle for the control of the vast vegetable  oil market in the country, Crusoe Osagie identifies three dominant players who are key to the nation’s eventual emergence as a...

    • Posted September 2, 2013
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  • External reserves drop to $46.87billion as Naira hits one year low

    Nigeria’s external reserves continued its lacklustre performance since this quarter as it fell to $46.871 billion on Wednesday, its lowest value this month. This was just as the naira also weakened to its lowest value against the...

    • Posted September 1, 2013
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  • Tin-Can Customs records N20.9bn revenue in August

    The Tin-Can Island Command of Nigeria Customs Service says it realised N20.9 billion revenue in August against the N20.4 billion it collected in July. The Area Comptroller, Jibrin Alkali, on Friday in Lagos, said that the revenue...

    • Posted September 1, 2013
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  • Communications commission warns service providers on unsolicited messages

    The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed the Value Added Service (VAS) providers to send all unsolicited messages on the networks between 8.00am and 8.00pm. The directive was contained in the ’2013 2nd Quarter Enforcement Activities Report’ posted...

    • Posted September 1, 2013
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  • Nigerians frown at the new N750 PHCN service charge

    The inconsistent nature of PHCN service in the country is so bad that some experts have described it to be epileptic in nature. This has been one of the major reasons why most industrialists are afraid to...

    • Posted September 1, 2013
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  • Fast food contributes N200bn to economy annually – AFFCON

    The Association of Fast Food and Confectioners of Nigeria, AFFCON, an umbrella body of Quick Service Restaurants, QSR in Nigeria, said it contributes an annual revenue of N200 billion into the growth of the economy. AFFCON among...

    • Posted September 1, 2013
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