… Manufacturers, transporters lament THE ban on inter-state movement has been one of the veritable methods adopted to curtail the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nigeria; albeit, not without bequeathing a devastating... Read more »
57 trainees, who represent batch seven set of graduates being absorbed into Ecobank Nigeria as full time employees were last week hosted to a virtual graduation ceremony by the Ecobank Academy –... Read more »
BEFORE COVID-19 there had been clarion calls from economist and others to straighten other sectors of economy so that when oil sector disappoints the nation can comfortably depend on other sectors but... Read more »
On March 26, Nigeria joined many other nations banning flights into the country and urging shelter-in-place, social isolation practices amid the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. President Buhari approved a 10-billion-Naira grant to the... Read more »
FEDERAL Government is mulling a reduction of the benchmark used adopted projected oil earnings in the 2020 budget to $30 per barrel. This represents about 60 percent slash from $57 on which... Read more »
STANDARDS Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has taken its sensitisation against importation of substandard products to the popular Alaba International Market in Lagos. SON and the International Market Association Electronics (IMAE), Alaba,... Read more »
NIGERIANS have been warned to desist from patronsing traders on second hand tyres in view of the dangers involved. Handing down the warning, the general secretary Association of Nigerian Tyre Markets,... Read more »
RESIDENTS of Nnewi are apprehensive of the rumours within the area that dead and sick cows are being sold to the public by butchers in the town. In a swift reaction,... Read more »
CHAIRMAN, Anambra State Internal Revenue Service, (AIRS), David Nzekwu, has debunked allegations of multiple taxes on private schools as well as exposed the exploitative tendencies students were subjected to in the hands... Read more »
A CHILD simply identified as Favour was yesterday rescued alive from the rubbles of one of the collapsed buildings at the Abule Ado explosion scene. Luck came the three-year-old baby’s way when... Read more »
LACK of structures at the permanent site of the Enugu International Trade Fair like that of Kaduna and Lagos has attracted some level of condemnation during the opening ceremonies of the on-going... Read more »
No fewer than 160 illegal immigrants that entered Nigeria without valid documents have been repatriated, the Acting Coordinator of Border Drill Operation Sector 3, Comptroller Garba Mohammed has said. Sector 3 of... Read more »
OYO State High Court has convicted an ex Oyo court registrar, Mutiat Adio, for stealing N22.3 million meant for Judicial Officers’ Cooperative Society in the state. Adio was charged to court... Read more »
MARITIME practitioner’s, Violet Olaitan Williams, Sunday, made a critical appraisal of the Nigerian Maritime sector and concluded that a ‘Catch Them Young Programme’ was expected. Williams dwelt on the efforts by... Read more »
WESTERN Marine Command, Nigeria Customs’ anti-smuggling arm on Western waters and creeks recorded unprecedented seizures of 466 bags of foreign rice and 272 cartons of poultry products within 14 days. Outgoing... Read more »
THE newly elected President of Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA), Emeka Nwandu, has entreated the federal government to support in the completion of the Enugu International Trade Fair... Read more »
ANAMBRA State Government has reiterated her readiness to capture and seal more shopping malls in Onitsha, for defying government directives in payment of taxes and levies. The Commissioner for Trade and... Read more »
ANAMBRA State’s administration is evolving in the right direction. Though taxing the informal sector has remained a challenge to many because of the number of people who fall under it. The government... Read more »
THE news of the seizure of $8,065,612 cash by the officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) last month must have come as a huge... Read more »
CHAIRMAN, Anambra State Amalgamated Traders Association (ASMATA), Ikechukwu Ekwegbalu has called on traders in Anambra State to learn to accept election outcomes, and shun every form of false accusations and tussles after... Read more »