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  • UNN kicks off Science Fair with 18-member UNESCO team

    An 18 man UNESCO team arrived the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Monday, to facilitate science and technology workshop and exposition designed to provide scientific Mobile Learning for academic staff, train students of engineering on Engineering without borders...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • South-East, South-South professionals plan 10-year regional development plan

    The Southeast, South-south Professionals of Nigeria have set up a committee to work out a 10-year plan for the development of the 11 states within the region. The group which announced this after its meeting in Enugu...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • New power plant to be commissioned in Aba

    Residents of Aba, especially the industrialists and artisans in the city will soon have cause to smile as the chronic power challenge facing them will be a thing of the past. This is because a privately owned...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • Nigeria Airports controversy: Court awards Maevis N5bn as damages

    All the agreements entered by the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) with the Societe International Telecommunication Aeronautiques (SITA) should be halted and their implementation stopped, a Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled. News Agency of...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • NUPENG/PENGASSAN threatens strike

    Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN and National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG have threatened to embark on an industrial action following the poor state of the Eleme-Refinery raod. This...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • Naira records highest gain in 18 months

    The naira recorded its highest gain in 18 months on Monday, snapping four days of decline as the Central Bank of Nigeria sold $300m in its Wholesale Dutch Auction System market. The currency strengthened by 1.6 per...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • Inactive telephone lines now 44.6 million – NCC

    The number of inactive telephone lines in the telecommunications industry stood at 44,647,096 in the first quarter of the year. In the monthly subscriber data posted on the website of the Nigerian Communications Commission, it was stated...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • FG pays oil marketers N192.5bn

    The Federal Ministry of Finance has paid petroleum products marketers N192,502,279,966.50, this year. A statement by Mr. Paul Nwabuikwu, Special Adviser to the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday, in...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • Electricity consumers groan over increase in metre charge

    Electricity consumers in some part of Lagos have expressed worry over increase in fixed metre charge for pre-paid metres users. They accused the Federal Government, through the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, of short changing Nigerians,...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • RMAFC asks FG to reduce over dependence on oil

    THE Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, Monday, called on the Federal Government to reduce its over-dependence on oil and gas and broaden its economic base through diversification. RMAFC Chairman, Engr. Elias Mbam, who made the...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • Inflation rate stands at 9.0% – NBS

    Nigeria’s inflation rate stood at 9.0 per cent in May against the 9.1 per cent recorded in April, Dr Yemi Kale, Statistician-General of the Federation has said. Kale, in a statement in Abuja, said this indicated that...

    • Posted June 18, 2013
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  • Borno spends N1billion on fertilizer, faults FG on e-fertilizer sales

    Borno State Government has opted out of the Gross Empowerment Scheme ,GES, the ongoing federal government’s electronic fertilizer sales scheme due to lack of telecommunication, which is a major component of the scheme. The state government had...

    • Posted June 17, 2013
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  • EX- NNPC staff rearrested for pipeline vandalism

    A former staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Bashiru Majiyagbe, who was jailed for five years for his alleged involvement in pipeline vandalization, has been arrested again. Majiyagbe was rearrested few weeks after he finished serving...

    • Posted June 17, 2013
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  • Total posts N217.8 billion turnover, N4.67 billion profit for 2012

    TOTAL Nigeria Plc has posted a turnover of N217.84 billion for its 2012 operations, against N173.95 recorded in 2011, while profit after tax also increased from N3.81 billion in 2011 to N4.67 billion during the year under...

    • Posted June 17, 2013
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