Senator Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation and Member of Egyptian Senate (2020-2025) has been named one of the most influential African women in the world for 2020, for the third time. She has been nominated this year as…
Host communities of oil and gas producing areas have said they would not accept anything less than 10 per cent of proceeds from the natural resources as proposed by late former President, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. They have also sought for…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, January 26, 2021/ — DHL Global Forwarding () garners praise for its implementation of “people-first” HR best practices in Cameroon, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Nigeria, South Africa, Turkey and United Arab Emirates; Top Employer 2021 certification for DHL…
NIGERIA’S debts may rise above N60 trillion by the end of first quarter following a move by the Federal Government to convert its N11.91 trillion indebtedness to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to formal securitised loans. Last year, the…
South-South Leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Edwin Clark, has urged the Sole Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Effiong Akwa, to operate within the laws establishing the commission. Mr Clark gave the charge on Wednesday while receiving the…
The Federal Government through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has again approved an increase in electricity tariff across the country. Recall that the electricity distribution companies (DisCos) began implementation of a service-based reflective tariff (SRT) structure nationwide in November…
Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, the state capital, has convicted a former Managing Director of Finbank plc, Okey Nwosu. Nwosu was convicted alongside three other directors of the bank. The presiding judge, Justice Lateefat Okunnu, convicted the four…
The Monarch of Idjerhe Kingdom in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State, His Royal Majesty, Monday Obukohwo Whiskey, Udurhie 1, has told the Federal Government that there was no provision for a sole administrator in the Niger Delta…
Barely five days to the end of the year 2020, the Central Bank of Nigeria has disclosed that a survey carried out by its Statistics Department revealed that the naira is expected to depreciate further in January 2021. The report,…
About one week after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the reopening of the borders shut one year ago, traders in Seme and Illela border, Sokoto State, said they were awaiting the reopening of the borders to business. When our correspondent visited…
