Schneider Electric cautions against fake products

Schneider Electric, as part of efforts to check substandard products, has staged an anti-counterfeit sensitisation exercise among trade partners and end-users at the Arena Market and Brown Street in Oshodi, Lagos State. During the roadshow, the target audience was educated on original Schneider Electric products, which also provided the opportunity for customers to learn about […]

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Digital Footprints: The internet neither forgives nor forgets

By George Adimike In this era, as the world grapples with scapegoating the digital citizens, this caveat seems necessary and compelling. All internet users, starting from the digital natives (the iGeneration) to the digital pioneers (Millennials or Generation Y) to the digital migrants (Generation X), should bear in mind that the internet neither forgives nor […]

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Shipping firm slams $250 per TEU surcharge on Nigeria-bound cargoes

Import CMA CGM has announced an Overweight Surcharge (OWS) from Asia and India East Coast to Nigeria that takes effect from April 28, 2023.The French ocean carrier said that Nigerian importers will pay an overweight surcharge of $250 (about N115,000) per TEU (Twenty foot Equivalent Unit) on dry containers with a container gross weight equal […]

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Is the presidency afraid of public procurement council?

President-Elect Bola Tinubu By Martins Oloja This question has become inevitable because of the inexplicable failure of the presidency to inaugurate the most important institution of governance the Public Procurement Act 2007 Creates for the purpose of protecting public fund by fighting corruption in the public sector. This presidential fear of Public Procurement Council is […]

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Kwara CP orders arrest of drunken officer in viral video

The Commissioner of Police in Kwara, Mr Paul Odama, has ordered the arrest of a police inspector, Stephen Yohana, who was in a drunken situation in a viral video. Yohana is serving in Share Division, Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State Police Command. The state Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Okasanmi Ajayi, made […]

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Donaldson Oladipo Oyeyinka Diya (1944-2023)

Lieutenant-General Oladipo Diya, who died last month after a brief illness, came to limelight as an ebullient, no-nonsense former military governor of Ogun State, and later gained fame as former Chief of General Staff and Vice Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council during the infamous regime of General Sani Abacha. Notwithstanding his distinguished military career […]

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NDLEA bursts factory supplying Akuskura to Cameroon, Chad

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has burst a factory in Adamawa supplying Akuskura psychoactive substances to Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic. The Agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that the factory was raided on Saturday in Mubi. “At the time of the raid, […]

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No plans to phase out redesigned Naira notes – CBN

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says there are no plans to phase out the redesigned Naira notes from circulation. CBN’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Isa AbdulMumin, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Sunday. The statement was a reaction to a viral news on social media that the apex bank was […]

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Sudan fighting enters third week as UN says country collapsing

People who fled war-torn Sudan wait at a railway station in the Egyptian city of Aswan on April 28, 2023. – More than 14,000 Sudanese refugees have crossed the border into Egypt since deadly fighting erupted in their country in mid-April, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on April 27. In total, over 16,000 foreigners have […]

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