Month: March 2017
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AMCON decries Arik airline shutdown by workers’ union over
The Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), has condemned the aviation unionists who staged a protest at the headquarters of Arik Air Thursday. In a telephone conversation with PREMIUM TIMES, Thursday, Jude Nwauzor, AMCON’s Head of Corporate Communications, said the disruption of activities at the airline’s headquarters was uncalled for. Aviation unions had in the…
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Chi Farms Kicks off Training for 1000 Fish farmers
By Joseph INOKOTONG Chi Farms Ltd. has successfully concluded the training and certification of a pilot group of smallholder fish farmers. However, farmers in North and South are to go through the programme supported by USAID and Diamond Bank. A statement signed by Hakeem Jimo of Lion Sun Consulting said a group of 22 women…
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Senate asks Ali, Customs boss to quit, says unfit to hold office
By Joseph INOKOTONG with agency report The Senate, on Wednesday, declared the embattled Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), unfit to hold any public office. It also called for his resignation and cancellation of the retrospective policy on duties for vehicles. The Senate made the declaration after the Customs CG failed…
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FG Launches “OneBook”, Accounting Software
By Joseph INOKOTONG The federal government yesterday in Abuja launched ‘One Book’ an accounting software to enhance accountability, fiscal and financial discipline in government’s accounting system. This is part of ongoing measures to improve Public Financial Management across all levels of Government. Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adosun said at the launch “OneBook” is IPSAS…
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FAAC: FG, States, LGs Share N429.127bn February Allocation
By Joseph INOKOTONG The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), yesterday in Abuja rose from its meeting and declared a total of N429.127 billion available for distribution for the month of February, 2017 to Federal Government, States and Local Government Councils. A breakdown of the revenue shows that the gross statutory revenue received for the month…
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Give Us Employment Youths Tells NPDC
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City A group, under the auspices of Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM) has threatened to make oil producing communities housing the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company Limited( NPDC) unsafe for operation should the company fails to employ a minimum of one thousand youths within two weeks The group also vowed to take…
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Gov Ahmed flags off N450m post graduate school
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has flagged off Kwara State University (KWASU) Postgraduate School, incorporating the School of Business and Governance in Ilorin with a pledge of his administration’s commitment to developing education at the foundational, secondary and tertiary levels in the state. At the event held at the…
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Group Wants Obaseki To Protect. Investors In Edo
By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City A group, Concern Edo Youth has called on Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, to as a matter of deliberate policy put in place measures against menace capable of disturbing and scaring intending investors in the state. Speaking in Benin City, Coordinator Concern Edo Youth, Okungbowa Osagie, while reacting against…
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One Feared Killed In Rival Transport Unions’ Clash
By Steve Oni, Ilorin One person was feared killed while many others sustained varying degrees of injury in the fracas that ensued between members of two rival groups of tricycle operators in Ilorin, capital of Kwara state, on Tuesday night. Shop owners around Gambari area where the violence broke out hurriedly closed their shops and…
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‘N/Assembly ready to domesticate Kampala Convention on IDPs’
‘N/Assembly ready to domesticate Kampala Convention on IDPs’ By Aaron Ossai The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has assured that the National Assembly will domesticate the Kampala Convention Treaty on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The Speaker gave the assurance while receiving a delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross…