Etisalat Nigeria has once again demonstrated its commitment to empower young persons with quality education through its career counseling programme for secondary school students held in Epe, Lagos State recently. Etisalat Career Counseling is a one-day session for junior and senior secondary school students held in partnership with Leadership Empowerment and Resource Network, (LEARN), a […]
Britain voted Thursday to leave the European Union. A Reuters report stated that, based on voter tallies from Thursday’s referendum, Britons voted to exit the 28-nation European Union, an outcome that would set the country on an uncertain path and deal the largest setback to European efforts to forge greater unity since World War Two. […]
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) on Monday criticised the proposed life pension for members of the National Assembly (NASS) and advised them not to ask for more since they earn well. TUC in a statement by its President, Bobboi Kaigama, and acting Secretary-General, Simeso Amachree, in Lagos said that it was regrettable that […]
Nigeria’s new foreign exchange market made a robust take-off yesterday, Monday, June 20, 2016, clearing all the backlog of $4bn pent-up demand for foreign exchange with the Naira exchanging at 280 to the US dollar. The Ag. Director Corporate Communications of the Bank, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, said last night that the CBN was happy that […]
Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, IKDC, has launched a Network Safety Monitoring Initiative. The move, according to the company is to further strengthen its commitment towards ensuring the safety of lives and properties. The initiative allows for round-the-clock electrical asset surveillance across its network by special teams, specifically set up for this purpose. The teams, made […]
Adia Sowho, Etisalat Nigeria’s Director of Digital Business, is among eminent personalities that would be speaking at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016. The summit is billed to hold from June 23 through 24 at Silicon Valley, California, United States of America. Sowho will be speaking on the topic, ‘Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: Infrastructure and the […]
LCCI, Brazil in talks over local manufacturing of agric equipment The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) says it is in talks with the Brazilian Ambassador to Nigeria on how to develop local agricultural equipment in the state. Mr Adeola Elliot, Chairman, Agriculture Group, LCCI, made this known in an interview with the News […]
Shippers, under the aegis of Shippers’ Association Lagos State, on Friday advised the Federal Government to do a complete restructuring of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). The President of the association, Mr Jonathan Nicol, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. The shipper said that NPA should […]
To diversify the local economy in the face of dwindling revenues from the Federation Account, the Bayelsa State Government on Thursday said it has concluded arrangements to commercialise some of its parastatals and agencies. The State Chief Economic Adviser, Mr. Duate Iyabi, said the resolution was reached at the 59th Executive Council meeting of the […]
The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) says it has commenced a nationwide clampdown on marketers who distribute unwholesome and uncensored films in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday by Mr Cornel Agim, the NFVCB Director of Operations in Abuja. The statement said the board had commenced […]