THE flight disruption across the country due aviation fuel scarcity crisis seems to have gained momentum, as Margaret Ekpo Airport in Calabar, Cross River, recorded a decline in passengers’ movement by 4,481 in July, 2022. This is a 38 per…
By ABDULLAHI RABIU, Kano SILVEX International, a commodity trading firm and food processing company has engaged four hundred and twenty groundnut farmers in Kano and Jigawa states under a regenerative agriculture initiative to increase yield and minimise cost of production.…
THE management of Mikano International Limited, promoters of Mikano Generators, has refuted reports that the company is owned by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Some Twitter users had claimed that Mr Atiku was the key sponsor…
FOLLOWING the new status of the commercialized Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, about 500 staff have been earmarked to go. The affected staff have been given the first week of August to take a pay out package and leave…
16 years after their disengagement by former employers, ex-banks’ staff members retrenched during the 2005 banking re-capitalization converged in an office located in a mechanics’ compound at Aina Eleko Street, Maryland, Lagos to urge the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the…
PREMIUM Breadmakers Association of Nigeria (PBAN), comprising owners, Managing Directors and Partners of premium bakeries in Nigeria, have concluded plans to embark on four-day warning strike beginning from Thursday July 21, 2022. The bread makers took the decision in protest…
COUNTRIES on Africa’s east coast are increasingly turning to climate funding initiatives to boost livelihoods of oceanside communities, aid biodiversity and take climate action. On the margins of the high-level political forum on sustainable development currently underway at the United…
THE Ethiopian government has disclosed a record $1.4bn revenue from the exports of coffee during the just-concluded Ethiopian 2021/22 fiscal year that ended on July 7. The East African country exported 300,000 metric tons of coffee during the last 12…
MAJOR cocoa buyers have agreed to pay a premium and back a price floor on cocoa sold by Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana as part of an agreement reached on Friday to combat poverty among farmers. Cocoa industry players will back…
A DELEGATION from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is scheduled to visit Ghana starting Wednesday, July 6, to begin initial discussions with the Ghanaian authorities about a possible 3 billion U.S. dollar bail-out loan. Ghana had previously refused to seek…
