Archives for August, 2021 - Page 2
ASUU threatens fresh strike, gives FG Tuesday ultimatum
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has expressed its readiness to embark on another round of industrial action following what it called the failure of the Federal Government…
NAICOM charges insurers on retail market expansion
Insurance logo By Ngozi Onyeakusi ... The National Insurance Commission(NAICOM), Sunday Thomas, has charged insurers with the development of the retail market. The commissioner for Insurance, Sunday…
FG implements cooking gas imports tax, price jumps by 100%
The Federal Government has implemented a per cent tax on imported Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly called cooking gas, as the cost of the commodity leap by over…
Decline In Piracy Will End War Risk Insurance Premium … NIMASA
By Ngozi Onyeakusi .... A sustained reduction in reported cases of piracy and other maritime crimes in Nigerian waters would end the regime of War Risk Insurance…
FIRSTBANK SPONSORS DUKE OF SHOMOLU PRODUCTION; AS AWO, AREMU HIT STAGE
First Bank building First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced its sponsorship of ‘A Deep Dive Into History’, a theatre production from the Duke of Shomolu (DOS)…
Unity Bank Donates Building To Borno State Universal Basic Education Board
A building donated by Unity Bank Plc to the Borno State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB. Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum inspecting the…
Stakeholders seek domestication of gas resources as price soars
Drums of oil Unless Nigeria domesticates development of gas resources, especially with a N250 billion-intervention fund released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in partnership with the Ministry…
NNPC pegs 2022 base oil price at $57/barrel
NNPC logo The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Wednesday provided a base crude oil price scenario in the medium term, stating that the commodity was pegged at $57/barrel…
Nigeria’s data usage increases by 202% in three years — NCC
By Ngozi Onyeakusi--- The Nigerian Communications Commission has disclosed that data usage in Nigeria rose by per cent in three years. According to the subscriber/network data reports of 2018,…
Retired matron jailed for buying boy N50,000, selling him N200,000
• Akwa Ibom High Court The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a 47-year-old woman, Gertrude Akpan, to 10 years’ imprisonment for trafficking in…