The National Assembly has said it is set to invite Federal Government officials and 17 local and international oil companies over the alleged indebtedness to the Niger Delta Development Commission to the tune of N72bn and $73m. The officials to appear before the joint Senate and House of Representatives Committee …
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PR Firm sets to empower Nigerians on Linkedin optimisation
A Public Relations firm, Mosron communications, has concluded arrangement to empower Nigerians on Linkedin optimisation for them to boost their chances of job recruitment, promotion, and networking to achieve work-life success and balance. The firm intends to train 10,000 persons on Twitter while it also holds two offline capacity building …
Read More »Trump to pay $2m damages to charities, Court orders
A New York judge on Thursday ordered Donald Trump to pay $2 million for using his former charity to further his political and business interests, adding to the president’s legal woes. Justice Saliann Scarpulla of the New York Supreme Court told him to pay the damages to a group of …
Read More »Bayelsa State Government Must Account For N100BN Airport Project – Adams Oshiomhole
APC chairman, Adams Oshiomhole has told Bayelsa Government to account for the N100 billion expended on the construction of the state airport runway project. Adams, who described the project as the most costly anywhere in the world, revealed this yesterday when APC governorship aspirant in Bayelsa, Mr. Heineken Lokpobiri, paid …
Read More »Osinbajo, Amaechi for railway plant today
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will today perform the ground-breaking of Railway Wagon Assembly Plant in Kajola, Ogun State. He would be accompanied by the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. The Presidency announced this on Wednesday through its verified twitter account @NGRPresident. It said the Transportation Ministry, on behalf of the …
Read More »How BDC operators breach rules – CBN
Despite the increasing awareness and reforms in the Bureau De Change (BDC) sub-sector, a significant number of operators are below the requisite rules guiding their activities, the Financial Stability Report of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for 2018, has noted. In a target examination of 100 selected BDCs conducted …
Read More »Boeing Chairman passes vote of confidence on Muilenburg, signals he will stay
Boeing’s chairman on Tuesday gave a forceful vote of confidence in CEO Dennis Muilenburg amid calls in Congress for the embattled Boeing chief executive to resign after two deadly crashes. “Dennis has done everything right,” Boeing Chairman David Calhoun told CNBC, praising Muilenburg for keeping the board closely abreast of …
Read More »How Twitter influencers push suspicious brands to deceive greedy Nigerians
The latest suspicious investment opportunity trending on Twitter with the help of influencers is yet another warning to Nigerians to ‘shine your eye.’ Be wary of investment offers like this #InvestWithFCM was a top 5 trending topic on Nigerian Twitter on Monday, November 4th The mysterious company named “FCM” got …
Read More »Afreximbank invests over $500m in maritime sector
The African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) has said its intervention in the maritime sector in the last three years include more than $500million facilities for the Onne Port expansion in the Onne FTZ, Nigeria, Gabon, Cote D’ivoire, vessel finance for delightering, security patrol of offshore platforms, hotels in Cape Verde. …
Read More »Telcos accuse banks’ CEOs of lying over USSD charges
Telecoms companies on Tuesday accused banks of converting the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channel, which should be a service channel dedicated to promoting financial inclusion, into a revenue line. In a letter addressed to the Body of Banks’ Chief Executive Officers (BOBCEOS), the telcos, acting under the aegis of …
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