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1 Dec 2015
Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMA) said its members had begun massive loading of petroleum products to ease the effect of their scarcity in the country.
1 Dec 2015
CHEERY news came the way of officers of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) as the leadership yesterday, announced the promotion of 153 of them including 14 generals to their next ranks.
1 Dec 2015
JUSTICE Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday discharged and acquitted 10 persons charged with pipeline vandalism and murder of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) engineers.
1 Dec 2015
IN what appears to be another bid to save cost by government, it has been resolved that beginning from next year, officers selected for the Executive Intelligence Management Course (EIMC) would no more go for study tours beyond the shores of West African sub-region.
1 Dec 2015
THE Federal Government yesterday filed a 13-count criminal charge against three former staff of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and two fake tax operatives for allegedly swindling the nation of huge sums of money vide issuance of forged tax clearance certificates to some companies.
1 Dec 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, are expected to lead a government delegation to the coronation and presentation of staff of office to Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11, on Monday.
1 Dec 2015
THE Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, yesterday began a series of meetings with management of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and electricity distribution companies (Discos) on some knotty issues affecting the nation’s power sector.
1 Dec 2015
To ensure effective distribution of petrol in Lagos State, the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kackikwu and officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will be inspecting filling stations in Lagos today.
1 Dec 2015
BULLETS lodged in the body of Mr. Godwin Edabere, a policeman shot during a recent robbery at Agbara Estate, were removed yesterday at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.
1 Dec 2015
THE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that in the third quarter of 20I5 (Q3) about 427,000 new net jobs were created across the country, even as the bureau affirmed that this was inadequate to match the over 1.9 million new entrants of job seekers into the labour market in Q3 2015.
1 Dec 2015
THE Presbyterian Church of Nigeria has urged the Federal Government to holistically deal with and resolve the issues bordering on the alleged marginalisation and neglect of the South-East geo-political zone, as a measure to stem the rising tide of pro-Biafra agitations in the zone.
1 Dec 2015
SPONSORED media attacks and unjustified litigation have been listed as major threats to the survival of a robust lottery industry in Nigeria, the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) said yesterday.
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