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The Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX) has lifted the suspension placed on trading in the shares of Guinea Insurance Plc, effective Aug. 12. NGX, in its weekly report made available to newsmen in Lagos, confided that the suspension was lifted because the insurer had filed its audited financial statements for the year ended Dec. 31, 2023.…
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Matrix Energy Group, an indigenous and independent oil marketing and trading company, has insisted that it has never imported or distributed any substandard cargo in its two decades of operation but has consistently imported products that meet approved specifications. The oil marketing and trading company issued the clarification following an online publication claiming that Matrix…
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The Federal High Court, Abuja has again granted the Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja, and an admission-seeking applicant, Master Aondo Terdoo Caleb, until August 26 to amicably settle a suit brought before it by the minor applicant out of court. Justice Peter Lifu gave the school and the minor an 11-day extension to resolve the dispute,…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPC Ltd.) has issued a stern warning to the public, particularly job seekers, regarding circulating rumours about the sale of employment slots within the organisation. NNPC had earlier advertised employment opportunities at the state-owned oil company, where most Nigerians would ordinarily want to work. In a statement issued on…
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has confirmed that the federal government maintains its restriction on rice importation through land borders. NCS Comptroller-General, Bashir Adeniyi, made this clarification to journalists during a routine inspection at the Apapa port on Friday. According to Adeniyi, nothing in the newly approved fiscal measures includes the importation of rice. He,…
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The officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have decided to punish members who worked against the party and its candidates in the
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, has cautioned state governments not to enter foreign or international negotiations without involving the necessary agencies of the Federal Government. Tuggar said this while disclosing steps being taken to resolve the seizure of three Nigerian presidential jets by Chinese company Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment over a judgement…
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Indian doctors held a nationwide strike on Saturday, escalating protests after the "barbaric" rape and murder of their colleague, which has channelled outrage at the chronic issue of violence against women. The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor's bloodied body at a state-run hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata on August 9 sparked furious protests…
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Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has named a former bank chief as prime minister, according to a decree published nearly three weeks after the previous government resigned after being deemed "ineffective." At the end of July the government of Manuela Roka Botey -- who was the first woman to fill the role of…
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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has demobilised 54 illegally mobilised graduates of the University of Calabar to prevent them from receiving Certificates of National Service. The NYSC Director-General, Brigadier-General Yusha'u Ahmed, announced this in Abuja on Friday, stating that the 54 individuals were mobilised illegally and would be prosecuted accordingly. Ahmed revealed that out…