Governor Adams Oshiomhole says there’s urgent need to clean-up areas polluted by oil exploration and pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta to prevent diseases that may be induced by environmental pollution. Speaking during a courtesy visit to him by the…
Should crude oil prices remain volatile, averaging $53 in 2015, the Oil Producers Trade Section (OPTS) has estimated that Nigeria’s revenue from oil and gas sales could be cut by about $10 billion or 30 per cent. OPTS, through its…
The Chairman of Nigeria Agriculture Business Group (NABG), and its Coordinator, Sani Dangote, Comrade Peter Esele and Emmanuel Ijewere, yesterday expressed confidence in the ability of the newly elected President of African Development Bank (AfDB), and former Minister of Agriculture…
FREEPRESS — The Nigerian banking sector has for over a decade now received its fair share of legal and regulatory attention resulting from the massive failures of financial institutions that characterised the 90s. With the Central Bank of Nigeria’s recapitalisation…
*Commits to responsible TAM on refineries FREEPRESS — As part of its new business strategies to overcome extant disruptions in international crude oil market especially with regards to hydro-fracking technology and loss of patronage from the United States, Nigeria could…
FREEPRESS — Standards and Poor’s (S&P) an International rating Agency on Friday said that the Nigerian government fiscal policies in response to fall in global oil price were “proactive and ambitious”. This was disclosed in a statement Paul Nwabuikwu, spokesperson…
• FG to develop new PHC policy FREEPRESS — The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is to support the Nigerian government with a loan of N18.6 billion for vaccines to be procured through UNICEF. The loan is to be re-paid…
FREEPRESS — The Nigeria Customs Services, Ogun State Command on Thursday said it generated N1.2billion between January and February 2015. The Command Comptroller, Haruna Mamudu, disclosed this during his presentation at the kick-off of the implementation of the Route Incident…
FREEPRESS — The Pension Reform initiated and carried out by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has impacted positively on the Nigerian economy. Currently, over 6.5 million people are contributors from 180,586 employers that have registered with scheme, the Director…
FREEPRESS — The Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda, has said that operators of all Islamic financial products must ensure that their operations comply with globally acceptable standards. The minister, who was speaking at the inauguration of the National…
