May 28
Nigeria: Standard Rail Gauge - Apm Terminals Creates Awareness With Rail Trip
Nigeria's largest container terminal, APM Terminals Apapa on Wednesday, embarked on an awareness campaign on the standard gauge rail line with a rail trip to Ibadan for its… Read more »
Nigeria: Labour, Private Sector Operators Bicker Over Minimum Wage Demand
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr. Joe Ajaero, and Managing Director of Financial Derivatives Company, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, at this year's annual Vanguard Economic… Read more »
May 27
Nigeria: Minimum Wage - Organized Labour's N497,000 Demand Unrealistic - Presidency
THE Presidency has said that the N497,000 demand by the organized labour as new minimum wage is unrealistic and advised the labour to be serious in its demand. Read more »
Nigeria: FG Plans Single Digit Loan for Media Houses
Apparently concerned about the high cost of media production inputs, the federal government plans to support interested media houses with single-digit loan to keep them in… Read more »
Nigeria: Tinubu - 30 Million Nigerians to Benefit From Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway
President Bola Tinubu has said the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway will create direct job opportunities for millions and positively impact over 30 million citizens. Read more »
Nigeria: Manifesto of Nigerian Salaried Workers/Wage-Earners
IT is difficult most times to depart from the trodden path of life but sometimes it pays to do so. It is the road less travelled that usually opens path to opportunities and… Read more »
Nigeria: How President Tinubu Is Attracting Multi-Billion Dollar Investments in Nigeria's Energy Space - Lokpobiri
In this interview, Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister of State, Petroleum Resources (Oil), reveals how President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's signal to the global investing public is beginning to… Read more »
May 23
Nigeria: Convert Abandoned Shell Airstrip in Oloibiri to Air Force Base - Senate Tells Govt
...Calls on Oil Companies, NDDC to contribute to upgrade of the Airstrip Read more »
Nigeria: Govt Targets Fresh $20bn Oil, Gas Deal
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri says the Federal Government is set to seal a deal worth 20 billion dollars to boost oil and gas production… Read more »
Nigeria: Japa - We'll Reabsorb Health Experts That Return - Govt
The federal government has assured that health experts who return to Nigeria after migrating abroad for greener pastures, would be seamlessly reabsorbed. Read more »
May 22
Nigeria: Minimum Wage - Anambra Govt, Labour Resolve Issues
The Anambra State government and the organized labour in the state have, in the interim, resolved the knotty issue of the state's minimum wage for its workforce. Read more »
May 21
Nigeria: Hoodlums Attack - Why Banex Plaza Was Closed - Army
The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said the closure of Banex Plaza in Wuse 2, where several shops are located for the sale of electronic gadgets, phones and laptops was in response to… Read more »
Nigeria: Price Hike - Concession Should Be Extended to Cement Manufacturers - Minister
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Doris Nkiruka Uzoka-Anite, has urged that gas concession given to electricity companies should be extended to cement manufacturers… Read more »
Nigeria: Diesel Price Stands At N1415.06 in April 2024 - NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says the average retail price of a litre of diesel increased from N842.25 in April 2023 to N1415.06 in April 2024. Read more »
Nigeria: Rivers Crisis - My Administration Started February 2024, Fubara
....As Delta Gov. Inaugurates 21.5km Egbeda Internal Roads Read more »
Nigeria: Stay Away From Day-to-Day Management, Tinubu Charges Neiti Board
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday inaugurated the 6th National Stakeholders Working Group, NSWG, of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, with a… Read more »
Nigeria: Over 700 Candidates Struggle for PTDF Scholarship Scheme in South-West
Over 700 candidates in the six South West states of the country have made frantic efforts to win the 2024/2025 postgraduates overseas scholarship scheme funded by the Petroleum… Read more »
Nigeria: Customs Intercepts Trucks Load of Donkey Products, Others, Arrests 4
The Federal Operations Unit Zone ' B" of the Nigerian Customs has intercepted trucks load of illegal donkey meat and bones, hard drugs and other illegal goods with a Duty Paid… Read more »
Nigeria: Kano Mosque Fire - Tinubu Directs Law Enforcement Agencies to Prosecute Suspects
President Bola Tinubu has condemned the act of arson, which led to the death of worshippers at a mosque at Larabar Abasawa in Gezawa local government area of Kano State. Read more »
Nigeria: Navy Arrests 2 Suspects With 3,500 Litres of Petrol En Route Cameroon
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base (FOB), Ibaka, says it has arrested two suspected oil thieves carrying 3,500 litres of petrol in a wooden boat en route Cameroon. Read more »
May 22
Nigeria: UK Govt Pledges Support to Nigeria's Capital Market
The United Kingdom Government says it is committed to supporting Nigeria to develop its thriving capital markets and sees its Mobilising Institutional Capital Through Listed… Read more »
Nigeria: Retired Police Officers Storm Nass, Protest Over Unpaid Pensions
RETIRED police officers, under the aegis of contributory pension scheme, yesterday stormed the National Assembly to protest several months of unpaid pensions by the federal… Read more »
Nigeria: Momoh, Shell Md Meet On Challenges of Crude Oil Theft in Niger Delta
The Minister of Niger Delta Development, Engr. Abubakar Momoh, has hosted the Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and Country Chairman of Shell… Read more »
Nigeria: Price Hike - Cement Manufacturers Deserve Gas Concessions Too - Minister
Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Doris Nkiruka Uzoka-Anite, has asked that gas concession given to electricity companies be extended to cement manufacturers as a means… Read more »
Nigeria: Inflation Battle - 'There's No Magic Wand, but...' - Cardoso, CBN Gov
Citing the need to rein in inflation and achieve price stability, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday raised its benchmark interest rate, the Monetary Policy Rate, MPR, by… Read more »