Commuters, traders and some residents in the South-South and South-East geo-political zones have commended the approval of multi-billion naira road contracts by the Federal Executive Council.
National telecommunications operator, Globacom yesterday announced a new package which enables subscribers on its network to make unlimited intra-network calls by just paying N40 a day.
Regional Development Manager of West and Central Africa of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Mr Daniel Perrier has said human capital development remains the most important aspect of modern Customs administration.
National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) said it has increased surveillance on insurance companies to check spread of toxic assets to the insurance market as well as protect policyholders.
President Umaru Yar'Adua has said that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will restore the confidence of investors in the nation"s oil and gas industry.
Stanbic IBTC Bank, Nigeria, a member of Standard Bank Group, has completed a US$15m Cocoa Financing for Agro Traders Limited (ATL) to fund the ATL's procurement of cocoa beans from the 2009/2010 Nigerian cocoa harvest, which it will export to Europe.
Bothered by the influx of substandard goods from China into the country, the Nigerian Government and its Chinese counterpart are bill to sign an agreement in January which would check the dubious importation of fake and counterfeit goods and products into Nigeria from China.
AS part of its corporate social responsibilities (CSR), the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) declared it has aided farmers' cooperative societies, youths and women groups in its areas of operation with over N80 million as micro credit facility within the last four years.
The Senate yesterday poured scorn on President Umaru Yar'Adua's implementation of budgets with its presiding officer, Chief David Mark, urging the administration to immediately reorder his seven-point agenda to a manageable frame.
Many people are still ignorant of the workings of the ATM. The customers complain about the way the machine seems to have short changed them. Our reporter investigates.
The N4.07 trillion 2010 Federal budget laid before the National Assembly last week has been read a second time in the Senate with completion of debate on general principles of the bill by senators.
Security operatives from the State Security Services (SSS), Economic and the Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) yesterday called on the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to stop rationing electricity at Federal Housing Authority (FHA) Phase 1 Karu because of the presence of the three security agencies in the area.
The advent of democracy in May 1999 brought with it great expectation that there would be a dramatic improvement in the living standards of our people. But over a decade of democratic rule and enormous revenue at the disposal of governments at various levels, the vast majority of our people have continued to wallow in poverty and misery while unemployment and under-employment remained unacceptably ...
Standard Chartered Bank is boosting bilateral trade between Africa and Asian by launching its Nigerian Malaysian Trade Corridor.The initiative was part of a seminar held in Lagos in conjunction with the Nigeria-Malaysian Business Council as part of the bank's Africa SME Month with the theme "Optimizing Global Opportunities For SMEs: International Trade With Malaysia."
The Food Agricultural Organization (FAO) said agricultural practices are responsible for 14 percent greenhouse gas emissions globally.According to FAO media report yesterday, agriculture does not only suffer from the negative impacts of climate change but it is also a contributor to the crisis and this need to be included in the global climate financing mechanism under discussion in Denmark.
The National Assembly will spend about N9.4 billion next year on various foreign trips lawmakers, officials of the management and the National Assembly Service Commission, the 2010 budget has shown.
The fuel situation in most filling stations in Abuja worsened yesterday, leaving commuters stranded in bus stops in the morning as a result of high transport fares.
Nigerian engineers have been recognised as having a central role to play in achieving a balanced economic development for Nigerian in the provision of basic infrastructure, roads, housing, water, electricity so as to ensure huge success of this administration.
The Nembe community in Bayelsa State and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) have jointly commissioned 12 different development projects executed by the community under the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) initiative.
The Try Oyster Women Association, last week, held a meeting to discuss means of sustaining themselves and the harvesting period of oysters.
The Fisheries Department, in collaboration with Overseas Agro-Fisheries Consultancy Company, recently ended a two-day capacity building training for fish retailers in Western Region on the rules and regulations for the proper utilisation of fish market.
The 2010 draft budget estimates will be tabled before deputies at the National Assembly tomorrow.The estimates will be tabled by the minister of Finance and Economic Affairs which will cover the period of 1st January to December 31st 2010, a press release issued by the Assembly reveals.
Total Gambia Limited, a subsidiary of Total France, last Wednesday presented rams to ten lucky winners at a presentation ceremony held at its Kololi station along Senegambia.
Ecobank, The Gambia, last Thursday gave out three Tobaski rams to three lucky winners of the bank's raffle draw held in the conference hall of the bank at Kairaba Avenue.
The earliest freshwater aquaculture trials (fish farming) were carried out in the 1970s and involved the culturing of Tilapia fish in small family fishponds by farmers in their rice fields in the fresh water zone of the river.
