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UTME: JAMB Scraps Awaiting Results Registration

With effect from this year (2017), candidates awaiting results would no longer be eligible to apply for the Universities Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, said in Abuja. The organisation also said it had concluded all restructuring and reforms and is now...

FG owes pensioners N183b, Says NLC

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned that unless urgent steps are taken, the Contributory Pension Scheme (CSP) designed to ease the suffering of pensioners in the country may collapse, saying the government was indebted to pensioners under the scheme to over N183 billion. Speaking...

FG offers farmers cheaper fertilizer For N5500

The Presidential Fertilizer Initiative of the Buhari Administration has started yielding results, with the production of more than 4,000 metric tonnes of locally-blended fertilizer in the first week of operation, as Fertilizer available to Farmers at 40% cheaper The Initiative was approved by President Muhammadu...

Niger Delta: $20bn Gas Industrial Park Underway- Osinbajo

In what is called a ‘Gas Revolution,’ and following the renewed interactive engagements of the Federal Government with oil-producing communities in several states in the Niger Delta region, a plan to put in place a gas industrial park that is valued at about $20B...

Aluko, Diezani’s ally owes tax in New York

Kola Aluko, a Nigerian oil mogul, wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is owing the City of New York some overdue property tax. The $25,000 tax is over Aluko’s 79th floor penthouse at One57 in Manhattan which he bought for $51 million in...

Lawmakers, NEXIM Bank visit Ladgroup Shea Butter Factory

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Banking & Currency led by its Chairman, Honourable Sir Jones Chukwudi Onyereri visited the Ladgroup Ltd as part of their 'Oversight Functions' to Ladgroup Limited in Ikenna, Ogun State. Ladgroup is the foremost indigenous Nigerian conglomerate with a...