Okonjo-Iweala, Aisha Yesufu, Amina Mohammed, Ezekwesili lead pack of top 100 Nigeria women leaders 

…Biographical compendium profiles phenomenal Nigerian women ahead IWD   Ben Eguzozie, in Port Harcourt   Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who just resumed as director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and former minister of finance in Nigeria, Nigeria’s leading social crusader, Aisha Yesufu, the deputy secretary general of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed, and the former minister […]

Kwik Delivery, Nigeria’s B2B delivery platform, expands service to 4-wheels vehicles

…Becomes first full-stack last-mile delivery platform in Nigeria …Service currently covers Lagos, Abuja …Using app, customers request delivery vehicle track shipment in real time   Ben Eguzozie, in Port Harcourt   Kwik Delivery, Nigeria’s business-to-business (B2B) delivery platform, has announced it is expanding its app-based breakthrough delivery service to 4-wheels delivery vehicles. This includes vehicles […]

NLNG’s $7bn Train 7 faces headwinds over alleged non-compliance with Bonny Kingdom, core host’s local content

…BKLCCC accuses gas company of neglect of its contractors …But NLNG says it considers core host as trusted partner   Ben Eguzozie, in Port Harcourt   Nigeria’s foremost gas liquefaction company’s (NLNG) incoming $7 billion Train 7, which is the country’s boldest effort in gas business in nearly a decade, faces headwinds over alleged non-compliance […]

PHOTO NEWS: Nigeria receives first consignment of COVID-19 vaccine

By Wale Ameen   Nigeria this Tuesday, received its first consignment of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, thus making it the third West African country after Ghana and Ivory Coast to do so. The Covid-19 vaccine consignment with a total of 3.9 million doses was received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja by the Federal […]

MTN Nigeria leads pack of top-earning directors’ list for 2020 financial year

By Wale Ameen   Data obtained from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) of the top-earning directors across industries shows an interesting lineup with MTN Nigeria, Nigerian Breweries, and Zenith Bank topping the chart of the top 5 highest earning directors in Nigeria. A review of top-earning directors of Nigerian companies for the outgone 2020 financial […]

Eastern railway rehabilitation begins next week, says FG

With route extension to Abakaliki, Awka   MIKE OCHONMA   The Nigerian federal government has revealed that, the rehabilitation of the Eastern railway corridor linking Port Harcourt to Maiduguri will be flagged off on March 9, with a branch route to Abakaliki, Ebonyi and Awka in Anambra state. Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s minister of transportation disclosed […]

Nigerian engineers to manage world’s largest single train refinery

  $15bn complex to save Nigeria 41% importation cost – Emefiele Nigerian private sector set to push 850,000bpd refining capacity by 2024 CBN gives N100bn to DOR, arranging domestic refined crude sale in naira Fertilizers, petrochemicals to generate $2.5bn revenue annually – Dangote     The management of Dangote Oil Refinery (DOR) says it is […]

NNPC, again, denies FG planning increase in fuel price this month

NNPC, again, denies FG planning increase in fuel price this month

  Cautions against hoarding, panic buying But PMS sells N170 in South-east, South-south       The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the country’s national oil company, has come out again to deny any plans by the federal government to raise the pump price of petrol,the product the country consumes in excess of 52 million […]