All posts tagged "headline"

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  Imposition of 35% import duty on CPO detrimental to industries – Stakeholders

  The recent imposition of 35 percent duty on importation of Crude Palm Oil, CPO, into the country by the federal government is beginning to take a toll on associated food industries, as they have started to experience...

  • Posted May 20, 2013
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  Unregistered numbers to go offline on June 30

  Going by NCC directives, unregistered lines would be taken offline from the 1st of July 2013. In essence, what that means is that if your line has not been registered to your home network, service to your SIM...

  • Posted May 19, 2013
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  Nigeria, World Bank earmark $659m for erosion control in Nigeria

  Nigeria and the World Bank are to spend 659 million dollars in tackling erosion in 11 states, including Cross River, a World Bank Official said in Calabar on Friday. The Task Team leader of the World Bank...

  • Posted May 19, 2013
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  President Jonathan promises free trade zone for South East

  President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to establish a free trade zone in the South East to boost economic activities in the area. Jonathan made the promise at the ground-breaking ceremony of the international wing of the Akanu...

  • Posted May 19, 2013
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  Oil firms sue FG over drilling charges

  Three drilling firms on Thursday sued the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) challenging charges imposed on them over their activities in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The suits instituted before Justice James Tosho of a Federal High Court,...

  • Posted May 19, 2013
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  NCS advises LCCI to promote Made-in-Nigeria goods

  Victor Gbemudu, the Zonal Coordinator of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Zone `A’, Lagos, has advised the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to promote Made-in-Nigeria goods at the 2013 Lagos International Trade Fair. The advice was...

  • Posted May 19, 2013
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  Ogun State Government boosts rice production

  The Ogun State government has supplied and installed two sets of rice processing equipment at Moloko-Asipa in Obafemi Owode Local Government and Ago-Iwoye in Ijebu-North Local Government Areas to boost rice production in the state. Also to...

  • Posted May 18, 2013
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  Traders send SOS to Amaechi over N500,000 fee for market stores

  TRADERS at the New Layout market in Port Harcourt have appealed to Governor Chibuike Amaechi to reduce the five hundred thousand naira fee they were being asked to pay to secure their stores at the market. While...

  • Posted May 18, 2013
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  Fidelity Bank records 40% profit in Q1

  Nigeria’s Fidelity Bank said on Friday its first-quarter pretax profit rose 40.42 percent year-on-year to N5.94 billion ($37.62 mln), up from N4.23 billion a year ago, the bank said. Gross earningsat the mid-tier lender rose to N31.43...

  • Posted May 18, 2013
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  Power generation: Jonathan okays power ministry’s request to source for funds

  The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, on Thursday in Abuja disclosed that President Goodluck Jonathan has given him the nod to source for funds to maintain the generation and distribution of electricity. Nebo said this when...

  • Posted May 17, 2013
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