All posts tagged "headline"

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  Rivers crisis: PENGASSAN threatens to withdraw services

  The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria on Thursday threatened to withdraw the services of its members because of the violence brought about by the current crisis rocking Rivers State. A statement made available...

  • Posted July 12, 2013
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  Governor Amosun tasks FG on food security

  Governor Ibikunle Amosun, has urged the Federal Government to continue to evolve policies that will ensure food security in the country. Speaking in Abeokuta last week at the 40th meeting of the National Council on Agriculture and...

  • Posted July 12, 2013
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  Shell shuts oil pipeline six days after reopening, production drops by 150,000 barrels

  Six days after it reopened the Trans Niger Pipeline, which was shut down following a fire incident in June, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited has again shut the pipeline due to a leak. As a...

  • Posted July 12, 2013
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  Reps reject NNPC’s N384.9bn loss statement

  House of Representatives Committee on Finance, Wednesday, rejected N384.9 billion operational loss recorded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, between 2009 and 2011. The committee, which was probing Federal Government’s agencies’ remittances of surplus to the...

  • Posted July 12, 2013
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  NLNG/NIMASA face-off: Depots run out of cooking gas

  Major Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) depots in Lagos, from where the product is loaded and transferred to other parts of the country, are now empty due to the lack of supply from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural...

  • Posted July 12, 2013
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  CIBN to deepen competence in banking industry

  President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, CIBN, Mr. Segun Aina, has disclosed that the institute is set to introduce new certification programmes to help deepen competency in Nigeria’s banking industry. He stated this while addressing new...

  • Posted July 12, 2013
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  Reps to probe Osibodu’s tenure at Union Bank

  DISTURBED by the  alleged unwholesome practices in Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, the House of Representatives, yesterday, mandated its Committee on Banking and Currency to probe operations of the bank during the tenure of Funke Osibodu and...

  • Posted July 11, 2013
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  Nigeria second to Russia in global gas flaring

  Nigeria, the highest producer of gas in Africa, loses about $1.789 billion or N286.24 billion to gas flaring annually. Mr. George Osahon, Director, Department of Petroleum Resource, DPR, has said. Osahon who was represented by his Deputy...

  • Posted July 11, 2013
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  EU approves N2.5bn for standardisation in Nigeria

  The European Union has made twelve million Euros (about N2.5 billion) available through United Nations Industrial Development, UNIDO, for the establishment of National Accreditation System in Nigeria.  National Accreditation System is a body that is competent to...

  • Posted July 11, 2013
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  NSE boss urges stockbrokers to promote ethical conduct

  The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Mr. Oscar Onyema, has charged stockbrokers to enthrone integrity and highest standard of ethical practice in their operation. Onyema, who spoke at the occasion of induction of new members...

  • Posted July 11, 2013
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