The goods and services tax department of the national revenue authority (NRA) yesterday presented 30 business people with GST certificates at the authority's head office at Wellington Street in Freetown.
Ousman Sonko, the minister of Interior, has described money laundering, terrorism financing and other related financial crimes as amongst the major threats to the global economic system.
The US$4.4 Banjul-Serrekunda Road rehabilitation project, which is being funded by the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), is currently in progress with the sealing of major cracks as the first phase of the project.
Edrissa Mass Jobe, has been appointed as the new Chairman of FIBank with a mandate to turnaround the Bank and enhance the brand and reputation.
A two-week training on Information Technology (IT), organised by the Judiciary in collaboration with the UNDP office in Banjul, yesterday kicked off at the Management Development Institute (MDI), in Kanifing.
The organisers of the 2009 trade fair have described this year's event as a successful one compared to the previous one.
An unidentified female prisons officer was on Tuesday morning crushed to death by a tipper vehicle at Pasali community in Kuje Area Council.
Nigeria Eagle and the American airlines, Delta Airways, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand air travel between North America and Nigeria.
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that it has already commenced with its new retail plan to partner with independent and private filling station owners within the country where it will take over the stations in order to sustain steady fuel supply.
Lucky Fibres Plc, manufacturers of Nobel Carpets & Rugs has investment N1 billion into a new yarn plant facility that will see them produce at least 500 tonnes of rug carpets per month.
Minister of State for FCT, Chief Chuka Odom, Tuesday commissioned four rural communities electrification projects at Kuje Area Council.
Nigeria earns N900 billion from Bonga oil field in the past four years, Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Chike Onyejekwe has said.
The Indian government has donated desk top computers and other accessories to the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA)'s Directorate of Information and Communication Technology which was commissioned yesterday by Air Marshal Paul Dike, the Chief of Defence Staff.
With few days to the end of the year, the Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola yesterday revealed that only 50 per cent of the nation's 2009 capital budget has been released to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
There are indications that investors from The Netherlands may have indicated interest in ailing Nigerian banks and may be on their way to hold strategic intervention talks with some of the banks next week in Abuja.
Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, yesterday sacked 962 academic and non-academic staff of the university. The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the University Governing Council,Chief Alex Onabanjo, announced the sack at a press conference held at Iwe-Iroyin Press Centre, Abeokuta. The pro-chancellor, who was represented by Sina Kawonise, at the conference, further added that ...
As part of its efforts towards transforming Kuje to a modern city, the council chairman, Hon Danladi Etsu Zhin, has revealed that over N200m was spent on the rehabilitation of township roads, apart from various completed and ongoing projects.
Residents of Yenche Village in Kuje Area Council who have never had electricity can now heave a sigh of relief as the chairman of the council, Dr. Danladi Etsu Zhin, has completed a rural electrification project in the village.
Nigeria will see Coca-Cola move out of the country and go to Cote D'Ivoire, and will be part of a list of companies leaving Nigeria, LEADERSHIP learnt yesterday.
The Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna presided over by Hon. Justice M. L. Shuaibu has ordered a Telecommunication Company, Helios Towers, to dismantle and remove its mast located in residential premises in Kaduna, installed without conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment as required by law.
A foreign firm and a Nigerian company have been awarded $230 million contract by the Federal government to construct power plant in Kaduna state. GE Oil & Gas, a world leading company in oil and gas equipment and services and Rockson Engineering Nigeria got the contract for the installation and commissioning of a dual fired (low pour fuel oil/gas) 150-200MW power plant in the state.
Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has announced a two-day international safety conference to sensitize stakeholders on ways to curtail future incidents in the nation's aviation industry.
Transactions at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) yesterday saw investors' wealth rising by N38 billion, occasioned by gains in 24 companies.
There is an indication that housing and environmental protection in Lagos State would gulp over N36 billion in 2010.
The Managing Director of Shell Nigerian Exploration and Production Company, (SNEPCo), Mr Chike Onyejekwe has disclosed that Nigeria earned over N900 billion from Bonga oil field in the last four years.
