The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reached an agreement with the federal government to end the over three months strike. The agreement was reached and a deal was signed at a meeting in Abuja on Thursday. Chris Ngige, minister of labour, led the government’s delegation while Abiodun Ogunyemi, president of ASUU, led the […]
By Foster Obi The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), recently commissioned renovated Government Secondary School,AdiabohAssembly Hall, and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects in Calabar, Cross River State. In the pix, the Representative of the Managing Director NPA, General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, Engr. Adams Jatto(Middle), the Obong of Calabar, His […]
By Foster Obi Stanbic IBTC, a member of Standard Bank Group, has said it is pleased to join the Chinese community in Nigeria and other well-wishers to celebrate the Chinese New Year, the year of the pig. The company stated that the Chinese community in Nigeria has become a very important part of the Stanbic […]
The company followed other oil majors in announcing a strong set of results for the fourth quarter of 2018. Overall oil and gas production for the whole of 2018 climbed by 8.1% from a year earlier to 2.775 million b/d of oil equivalent, a record high, Total said Thursday. Total expects ramped-up output from Kaombo […]
Crude oil exports from the United States to the United Kingdom overtook supplies from other countries including Nigeria for the first time since such shipments began in 2015. In January, the US supplied the equivalent of almost one in every four barrels of crude processed by UK oil refineries, or 264,000 barrels per day, illustrating […]
The acting Inspector General of Police, M.A Adamu, has ordered the posting and redeployment of the following Senior Police Officers to Zones, Formations and Commands. According to the posting, former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde now heads Force Intelligence Bureau. Edgal Imohinmi, the commissioner of police in Lagos until today, […]
A judge has adjourned a Lagos court case between South African telecoms firm MTN Group and Nigeria’s attorney general over a $2 billion tax demand until Mar. 26, the court said on Thursday. MTN faces the demand from the country’s attorney general, a claim which the company has said is without merit. Nigeria handed MTN […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has again failed to arraign Ayodele Oke, former director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), and Folashade, his wife, before a federal high court in Lagos. The duo being prosecuted in connection with some monies reportedly recovered from a flat in Ikoyi, Lagos, were absent at the court […]
In a bid to resolve the ongoing strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, will hold another conciliatory meeting with the leadership of the union on Thursday. The lecturers embarked on an indefinite strike on November 4, 2018, demanding improved funding of universities […]
Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, recently issued an order to security agencies asking them to “tackle the propagation of hate speech through the social media, particularly by some notable Nigerians.” The order means that some prominent Nigerians should be monitored and tracked down if they make statements that could be described as hate speech. […]