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An aviation expert, Mr Gbenga Olowu has identified the aviation sector as one of the hardest hit by the global economic meltdown. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos, Olowu said that as the recession bites harder; air travel has shrunk, hitting airlines and airport
ABOUT 266 projects worth over N10.257 billion executed by the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) in different oil communities in Itsekiri, Ijaw, Isoko and Ndokwa ethnic nationalities in Delta State are to be commissioned between December 1 and 14.
Chevron Nigeria Limited has donated internet facilities to Bayelsa State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
SECRETARY, Western Zone Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Comrade Preye Okaba, has commended the chairman of Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Kelly Penawou, for his developmental initiative in the area.
The family of First Republic Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, has urged a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere to reverse the purported sale of the deceased's property to Dangote Nigeria Limited.
Skye Bank Plc and the British Council have gone into a strategic partnership in the area of human capital and manpower development with the objective of developing the skills and competences needed for nation building and economic empowerment.
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Mr Mike Igbokwe has advocated the formation of a Cabotage Task Force that will monitor the successful implementation of the Cabotage Act.
Resort Savings and Loans Plc has announced its plans to invest about N7 billion in the real estate segment of the Nigerian economy in the year 2010.
THE umbrella body for senior staff in the nation's financial sector, the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), has raised alarm over increasing retrenchments and unfair labour practices in the banking sector and warned against making workers scapegoats in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) induced clean-up exercise in the sector.
The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, said it had deployed over 12,000 policemen including undercover operatives to key areas in the state, with a view to ensuring that the Sallah celebration was devoid of violent crimes.
The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has called for better funding of the One Stop Investment Centre (OSIC) to attract more investment into the country. Mr Amos Sakaba, the Director of OSIC, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
A chieftain of the Action Congress (AC) in Delta State, Mr. Aluge-Obia Kainji has described as illegal the suspension of the Ika South Local Government Council Chairman, Mr. Hilary Ibude, by Delta State House of Assembly
The Lagos State Government has concluded arrangement to provide free bus service for the residents of the state during the Sallah festival aimed at making the festival smooth and stress-free.
SOME governors insist on being called executive governors though the Constitution just assigned titled of governor to them. The misappropriation of our resources starts with governors assuming unconstitutional titles.
The Director of Inland Transport Services, Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Chief Chris Eyitemi Orode, former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babaginda (rtd)and Chief Raymond Dokpesi has been given a fellowship award by Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State.
The Honourable Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, on Thursday advised the three tiers of government to look inwards to generate sustainable resources to meet the minimum requirements and needs of their economies, particularly the infrastructural development.
Westside Supplies Limited, Nigeria 'S Sole Agent of Obo Bettermann has reaffirmed its readiness in providing innovative, user-friendly and practical solutions of the highest quality for all areas of electrical installation which will further enhance the infrastructural efforts of the government of the federal republic of Nigeria .
Following the death of his child at Oni Memorial Children Hospital, Ring Road Ibadan, a policeman allegedly suffocated two other children to death and left three others on danger list.
Adamawa State Government has approved the sum of over N7 billion for the execution of various projects in the state.
An Abuja High Court yesterday freed the National Coordinator of the Police Equipment Foundation (PEF), Chief Kenny Martins and two others of charges of N7.740 billion fraud brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The Supreme Court will on February 19, 2010 deliver judgement on the appeal brought before it by the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against a ruling of the Court of Appeal, Jos which allowed Sen. Usman Albishir's application in spite of filing it out of time. ANPP and INEC want the Apex Court to determine whether the appellate court was ...
A Lagos High Court yesterday sentenced a former Director in the Oyo State Civil Service Mrs. Helen Banke Laoye to 20 years imprisonment on a two count charge of fraud levelled against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Plateau State Security and Intelligence committee has advised against public remembrance of relatives lost during last year's Jos crisis which followed the local government election in the state.
The Operations Manager of a first generation bank in Minna Mr Gokis Kizito was yesterday arrested over N2.7 million alleged to have been fraudulently withdrawn from the bank.
A former Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, Yusuf Mamman and three others were arraigned before the FCT High Court, Lugbe in Abuja on Monday for allegedly misappropriating N300m belonging to Aso Radio and Television.
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