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Ban wheat importation now, Association tells FG

The Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria (WFAN) in Kano State has called on the incoming administration to ban the importation…

N100,000 loan not enough, farmers tell govt

All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) Kogi chapter, on Saturday said the N100, 000 loan grant to farmers by the…

13 airports ready with airfield lighting soon – FAAN

The Federal Government said that 13 airports across the country were being fitted with airfield lighting for improved productivity and…

Court orders Ecobank to pay ex-staff N8.5m for wrongful dismissal

The National Industrial Court, Abuja, on Friday ordered Ecobank Plc to pay Mr Uche Abrah , the sum of N8.5…

Interbank rates rise after Treasury bills sales

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria interbank lending rates rose 3.25 percentage points week-on-week on Friday to 9.25 points on average, driven…

Fuel Scarcity: Oil marketers fear Buhari will stop subsidy payments

* Queues for petrol worsen across the country * Importers hold back over subsidy fears * Buhari government faces backlog…

Ikeja Electric explains power outage in Lagos

The management of Ikeja Electric (IE) on Friday attributed the current rate of power interruption across its network to low…

PEF saves N360bn through e-loading – Kasali

Mrs Adefunke Kasali, the outgoing Executive Secretary, Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF), said the agency saved more than two billion dollars…

We have 1.2bn litres of petrol in stock, NNPC boasts

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its downstream subsidiary, the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), said they had…

Pipeline Vandalism: NNPC should be held responsible – Amosun

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state, Southwest, Nigeria has charged the Federal Government on the management of petroleum…

Ecobank asks court to jail DMO’s DG

Ecobank Nigeria Limited has accused the Director General of the Debt Management Office, DMO, Mr. Abraham Nwankwo, of frustrating its…

Ecobank Asks Court To Jail DMO’s DG

Ecobank Nigeria Limited has accused the Director General of the Debt Management Office, DMO, Mr. Abraham Nwankwo, of frustrating its…

FG downgrades Asaba airport over safety concerns

The Federal Government has downgraded the Asaba Airport over the failure of Delta State Government to put in place safety…

FG borrows N473bn to pay salaries – Okonjo-Iweala

The federal government has borrowed 473 billion naira to meet up with recurrent expenditure including paying of salaries while it…

Nigeria to sell N60bn in bonds

Nigeria plans to sell 60 billion naira ($300 million) of 5, 10 and 20-year sovereign bonds on May 13, its…

NSE market indices drop further by 0.14%

Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for the second consecutive day in the week closed on a negative note,…

2015 Budget: FG earmarks N145.2bn for oil subsidy – Okonjo-Iweala

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, said that N145.2 billion had been set aside for payment of subsidy on petroleum…

Agric Minister, Adesina, shuns Reps summon over rice import fraud

The House of Representatives has threatened to sanction the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina over failure to appear before…

Fuel scarcity: We’ll supply adequate petrol – Marketers

The Major Oil Markers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) has assured the public of adequate supply of the Premium Motor Spirit…

NNPC searching for oil in Chad Basin

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it was set to resume oil search in the Chad Basin following the…

Cashless Africa expo kicks off in Lagos

The 5th MobileMoneyExpo will commence on May 6-7 at the Eko Hotel and Suite. The two-day expo will focus on…

Extradite ex-MINT boss, Okoyomon to UK, courts orders

Justice E. S Chukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Monday, May 4, 2015 ordered the…
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Reverse power sector privatisation, Gusau residents tells FG

Residents of Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara on Monday urged the Federal Government to reverse the privatisation of the…

Dangote Cement to begin production in Tanzania

The sub-Saharan Africa’s leading cement producer, Dangote Cement, says it will begin production of cement in Tanzania’s Mtwara region in…

Int’l Telecoms Week: MainOne leads Africa panel on local content

MainOne, leading communications services company and operator of the premier Tier III Data Center in West Africa, MDX-I, will lead…

Sage ERP Africa, Datalinx offer warehouse management solution

Sage ERP Africa has signed a distribution agreement with Datalinx, offering customers in Africa and the Middle East access to…

Nestle, UAC, MRS Q1 pretax profit fall

Nestle Nigeria first-quarter pretax profit fell 50.7 per cent to 3.48 billion naira ($17.5 million) from a year ago, the…

Okonjo-Iweala To Buhari: You must do something about oil cartel

Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has set an agenda for the Buhari administration: to tame urgently the oil cartel holding…

Bayelsa communities seek Jonathan’s intervention on compensation

Some Bayelsa communities that claim to have been affected by the January 2012 rig explosion at Chevron’s oilfields have called…

Probe PWC for deceiving Nigerians, Hon. Adeola tells Buhari

The senator-elect for Lagos West Senatorial District and Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, Solomon Adeola…
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