• Nigeria

    CPC urges compliance with guarantee, warranty policy

    The  Director-General, Consumer Protection Council  (CPC), Mrs. Dupe Atoki, has urged businesses to live up to the specified guarantee and warranty policy for the products and services they offer. Mrs. Atoki, who addressed key industry operators in automobile, electrical/electronics, heavy duty equipment, online markets and superstores subsectors of the economy ...

  • Nigeria

    Govt’ll improve ease of doing business, says Osinbajo

    The Federal Government is putting things in place to move Nigeria from a ranking of 169 out of 189 countries in the World Bank ease of doing business to at least 20 spaces in the coming ranking. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo who stated this yesterday in Abuja, said the Federal ...

  • Nigeria

    Jimoh Ibrahim emerges Ondo PDP guber candidate

    Group Managing Director, Energy Group, Barrister (Dr.) Jimoh Ibrahim, CFR, was yesterday in Ibadan, elected the Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, gubernatorial candidate for the November 26 election. The Igbotako-born business mogul and politician emerged victorious with 502 votes in the gubernatorial primaries election conducted at the Banquet Hall, ...

  • Nigeria

    FG wants to sabotage N56,000 minimum wage, NLC alleges

    Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday alleged of plans by the Federal Government to scuttle the implementation of the N56,000 new minimum wage submitted to it. Labour, comprising NLC and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, had on April 26, 2016, proposed a new minimum wage of N56,000. The unions ...

  • Kenya

    Exporters lose N100m to aviation agencies’ closure

    Exporters of perishable cargo and vegetable claimed they lost about N100 million to the recent closure of the export warehouses of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company, NAHCO, and the Skyway Aviation Handling Company, SAHCOL. The government had closed the two warehouses over the alleged housing of donkey skins from Kenya ...

  • Nigeria

    ABCON bemoans inadequate forex allocation to members

    Aminu Gwadabe, President, Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has decried the poor compliance of banks to the sale of foreign exchange to its members and also solicited Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) intervention on the issue. Gwadabe said, in a telephone interview, that only about nine ...

  • Nigeria

    Niger Delta Avengers to Buhari: no more attacks

    Presidency hopes peace move sincere Army deploys more troops, tanks Ijaw youths advise govt not to use force There is good news from the Niger Delta. The militants whose attacks have caused a huge dip in Nigeria’s oil exports, forcing the economy into a big crisis, said last night that ...

  • Nigeria

    Fed Govt earns N677.8b in second quarter, says CBN

    FACTS AND FIGURES •Forex inflow $5.89b •Forex outflow $6.09b •Banks’ assets/liabilities $31.23tr •Non-oil export dropped 20.4% •Inflation rate 16.5% Federal Government retained revenue for the second quarter of this year stood at N677.88 billion, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Economic Report for the second quarter released yesterday said. According ...

  • Nigeria

    Fayose signs bill to try herdsmen for terrorism

    •Governor signs Anti-Grazing Bill into law EKITI State Governor Ayo Fayose yesterday signed a bill to regulate grazing, into law, with a warning that any herdsman caught with arms will face charges of terrorism. The governor said the law would curtail activities of suspected herdsmen, who move about with firearms, ...

  • Nigeria

    AU To Partner NYSC On Skills Acquisition For Youths

    The Africa Union (AU) has indicated its willingness to partner the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) in skills acquisition for youths in Nigeria. The AU Envoy in Nigeria, Dr Tunji Asaolu, gave the indication on Monday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy visit to the Director- General of NYSC, ...