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  • There are flaws in alcoholic beverage advert regulation – Loremikan

    Shina Loremikan is the National Coordinator, Campaign Against Impunity, and a member of the Consumer Rights Advocacy Network of Nigeria. He is also a member of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights and immediate past...

    • Posted June 8, 2013
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  • Cable operators accuse NCC of rip-off

    LOCAL investors have accused the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, of colluding with foreign broadcast outfits to rip-off the Nigerian economy by not providing a level playing ground between local and foreign competitors. The local investors under the...

    • Posted June 8, 2013
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  • Naira falls to N159, weakest in 10 months

    The Naira fell to its weakest level in almost 10 months on the interbank market on Friday, driven down by strong demand for the dollar by offshore investors exiting the bond market and repatriating dividends, traders said....

    • Posted June 7, 2013
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  • N100bn subsidy debt threatens petrol supply

    The country may soon be thrown into another round of petrol scarcity if the Federal Government does not pay the N100bn subsidy arrears it owes major and independent marketers responsible for 67 per cent of fuel imports...

    • Posted June 7, 2013
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  • MTN replaces 285 expatriates with Nigerian workers

    Leading digital mobile operator, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited, has replaced 285 expatriates with Nigerian workers in a move to save costs and also encourage local content in the company. The Corporate Service Executive, MTN, Mr. Wale Goodluck,...

    • Posted June 7, 2013
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  • Apple enables iPhone users to trade old phones for new

    Apple Inc will start a program this month to allow users to trade their older iPhones for the newest model, Bloomberg cited people familiar with the plan as saying, a first for the company as it prepares...

    • Posted June 7, 2013
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  • FG pledges to pay off PHCN casual staff

    THE Federal Government Thursday promised to pay terminal benefits and gratuity to all staff of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, including those on casuals. It also pledged to wage war against casual/contract staff in the banking...

    • Posted June 7, 2013
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  • East-West road to be completed Dec 2014 – FG

    The Federal Government, Thursday, reassured Nigerians, particularly people of the Niger Delta, that the N347 billion East West highway dualisation projects would be completed and deliver by December 2014. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Peter...

    • Posted June 7, 2013
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  • Infrastructure Bank to manage FG’s N25bn mass transit fund

    The Infrastructure Bank Plc, TIB, has been chosen as the fund manager to the federal government’s N25 billion Public Mass Transit Revolving Fund (PMTF) scheme. Managing Director, Adekunle Oyinloye, disclosed this in a paper presented at the...

    • Posted June 7, 2013
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  • Energia, 4 others to build 15,000bpd refinery

    Indigenous oil firm, Energia Limited, yesterday, said it is partnering with four other local oil companies to build a crude oil refinery plant in the country with an initial capacity of between 10,000 and 15,000 barrels of...

    • Posted June 6, 2013
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