• Free trade will commence when crucial criteria are completed, says Customs Six months after trading officially commenced under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Nigeria and some other countries continue to lag behind, having stalled the process to domesticate trade protocols in line with the implementation of the new trade regime. With the rules […]
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Rotarian Oluwadamilola Rachel Akintunde-Abioye, (Mrs) PHF, handing over to Rotarian Lekan Oni as President, Rotary Club of Akure for Rotary Year 2021/22 at the Rotary Civic Centre, Igbatoro Road, Akure, Ondo State Capital, on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 Hands over to Rotarian Lekan Oni as President Rotary Club Akure, amid encomiums I will build on […]
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By Abdu Rafiu ‘From my observatory’ is not a headline that I can claim to be original to me. I am taking liberties to borrow it from one of my mentors—the one and only Allah-De of blessed memory. He used the phrase not infrequently, if you see what I mean. Restructuring is a bye-word in […]
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The All Progressives Congress has opened talks with three Peoples Democratic Party governors with a view to winning them over. Our correspondent gathered in Abuja, on Monday, that the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee has begun talks with three PDP governors namely: Okezie Ikpeazu, his Enugu State counterpart, Ifeanyi Ugwanyi and […]
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The price of a litre of Automotive Gas Oil, also known as diesel, has risen to N280, buoyed by the recent increase in global oil prices and naira devaluation. The Punchhad reported on February 24, 2021 that some filling stations in Lagos had increased diesel price to N250 per litre, while many others sold it […]
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Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry warns of consequences on economy The chickens are coming home to roost as the ban on Twitter operations in the country has started taking its toll on small and medium businesses (SMBs), reports Lucas Ajanaku These are not the best of times for some small businesses that rely on […]
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The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and billionaire businessman Jimoh Ibrahim are at daggers drawn over the sale of NICON Hotels. The new feud in the NICON Hotels ownership and sale followed an advertorial on Monday in some leading newspapers. The advertorial was captioned: “Caveat Emptor: This Hotel is not for sale.” In its […]
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Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila The House of Representatives Committees on Finance and Banking and Currency have summoned the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to appear before them next Monday as investigation continues into $30 billion annual revenue leakages from 2004 to 2019. The leakages allegedly arose from payments on account of foreign currency […]
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issues alert The Federal Government stated on Monday that 88 percent of 4 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines supplied to the country a few months ago have been utilised so far. It added that a combined number of 3,441,146 Nigerians have been vaccinated so far with their first and second doses of the […]
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A stalwart of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and member of representing Isoko South 1 Constituency, in Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Kenneth Edafe Ogba, has reportedly slumped and died during a party meeting on Sunday evening. Ogba, a first term member of the House and former Supervisory Councilor in Isoko South Local Government Area […]
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