Features

Stakeholders seek constitutional amendment to avert Jonathan’s scenerio after 2015 presidential election

Ihesiulo Grace 21 November 2017 0

 Will the National Assembly amend the Constitution to forestall any candidate spending more than eight years as President or wait upon the Supreme Court to make pronouncement? Writes Peter Fowoyo. But for the former President, Goodluck Jonathan’s loss at the March 2015 general elections,

Business

NNPC, Chevron wrap up $1.7bn deal

Ihesiulo Grace 20 November 2017 0

….Set to increase crude production by 39000 bp/d Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL)have executed the second and final phase of an Alternative Financing Agreement. A statement signed by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, on Sunday, in Abuja, said the agreement was signed in London,

Business

Nigeria issues 11,771 visas in five months

Ihesiulo Grace 20 November 2017 0

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it issued 11,771 Visas on Arrival (VOAs) between July and the first week of November. Spokesman of the NIS, Mr. Sunday James, made this known in a statement on Sunday. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, “A breakdown of the figure shows that 1,604 VOAs were issued […]

Abuja Times

Stakeholders urge FCTA to include media in developmental programmes

Ihesiulo Grace 15 November 2017 0

Experts and stakeholders in urban planning have called on the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to include the media in the efforts to review the long overdue FCT master plan. The call was made during a media empowerment seminar organised by the FCT Administration towards equipping media practitioners with the topic “The role of the […]

Capital Market

Stakeholders seek transparency in demutualization process

Ihesiulo Grace 9 November 2017 0

Stakeholders of the Nigerian capital market have called for transparency in the ongoing demutualization process of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The process seeks to transform the exchange into a public company. The stakeholders, who spoke to Daily Times Nigeria, said that the process of demutualizing the exchange plays a major role in determining the […]

Business Entertainment

FERIA 2017: Gathering of stakeholders in real estate, art and design set to ignite Lagos

Ihesiulo Grace 9 November 2017 0

Key speakers are expected at FREIA 2017, the biggest luxury event of the year. Consequently, these speakers were strategically selected to optimize the essence of the one-of-a-kind Afrocentric event that would create a platform to explore the synergy within the Real Estate, Interior Design and Art Industries. These names come with a pedigree and clout […]

Business News

Dangote hosts investors, stakeholders, consumers at Lagos Fair

Ihesiulo Grace 7 November 2017 0

Dangote Group, a leading participant in the on-going Lagos International Trade Fair will be hosting investors, distributors, dealers as well as the consumers tomorrow Tuesday during its Day during which the company management team will espouse on the strategies of the company to remain a leading pan-African conglomerate. Group Executive Director of the Company who […]

Anambra Times

Ekwusigo stakeholders drum support for APGA

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2017 0

The people of Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State have endorsed Governor Willie Obiano for a second term. They made this known at a stakeholders’ forum in Ozubulu which attracted some illustrious sons and daughters of Ekwusigo from within and outside the state. It was a gathering of the high and mighty as the […]

Politics

Lagos PDP crisis: Bode George, Agbaje, Maina agrees to share positions

Ihesiulo Grace 5 November 2017 0

As a way out of the lingering crisis which has engulf the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State for some years now, stakeholders in the party in the state, including Chief Bode George, Jimi Agbaje and Mrs Aduke Maina have agreed on a sharing formula for all positions and to bury their differences as […]

Edo Times

Obaseki wants stolen Benin artefacts returned

Ihesiulo Grace 2 November 2017 0

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that his administration has commenced engagements with relevant stakeholders to ensure the return of stolen Benin artefacts. Obaseki disclosed this when he received the publishers of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of Germany, a Frankfurt General Newspaper, working on a documentary to drum support for the return […]

Abuja Times

Coming on stream of FCT IRS will boost FCTA’s revenue profile -Bello

Ihesiulo Grace 1 November 2017 0

The FCT Minister, Mallam. Muhammad Musa Bello, has announced the final confirmation of the Chairman/Chief Executive of Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service -FCT IRS, Malam Abdullahi Oteh Attah, by the House of Representatives. This brings to a close the process of ratification by the two chambers of the national legislature and paves the way […]

Features

Stakeholders take decisions on Apapa gridlock menace

Ihesiulo Grace 27 October 2017 0

Stakeholders have met in Lagos and agreed on a number of measures to tackle traffic gridlock, port congestion and other problems in Apapa and its environs. They met with the three-in-one Minister, responsible for Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, who called for the collaboration of all of them to face the lingering […]

Maritime

Port access Road: Stakeholders canvass tax holiday for terminal operators

Ihesiulo Grace 18 October 2017 0

In a bid at find a lasting solution to the perennial traffic situation occasioned by the deplorable nature of the roads in the nation’s port cities of Apapa, stakeholders in the Maritime sector have called on the Federal Government (FG) to act by granting terminal operators opportunity to repair the roads. According to them, granting […]

Aviation

Stakeholders back review of airport concession

Ihesiulo Grace 30 August 2017 0

Stakeholders in the Nigerian aviation industry have backed the Federal Government‘s attempt to review some concession agreements in the sector. Those spoken to by our correspondent observed that majority of the concession initiatives were skewed in favour of the concessionaires at the expense of the country. Also, Mr. Ikechi Uko, an aviation analyst, said that […]

Property

Tax incentives ‘ill boost housing – Stakeholder

Ihesiulo Grace 25 August 2017 0

A stakeholder in the real estate sector, Meckson Okoro has said that tax incentive to the sector will boost it, and provide one of the ways out of the housing deficit currently facing the country. This is just as he urged the government to give free land to cooperatives as a way of encouraging them […]

Business

Why ministry of finance hired foreign PR agency

Ihesiulo Grace 4 May 2017 0

The recent issues surrounding the act of the federal ministry of finance in hiring a British public relations (PR) and strategic communications consultancy group to handle its public relations portfolio for a monthly fee of two million dollars at a time when the government is struggling to survive has continued to general debate among stakeholders. […]

News Top Stories

Customs, cesspool of corruption, confusion -Stakeholders

Ihesiulo Grace 8 March 2017 0

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has continued to draw flak over its recent policy statement mandating vehicle owners, whose customs’ duties have not been paid to do so at the various zonal offices of the service within one month with many stakeholders wondering how the vehicles were able to get on to the roads in […]

News Nigeria Politics

Sokoto PDP endorses Makarfi-led committee

Ihesiulo Grace 27 February 2017 0

The Sokoto state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, has unanimously endorsed the decision of the PDP stakeholders in Abuja to support and recognized Senator Ahmed Makarfi as an authentic chairman of the party instead of Senator Ali Modu Sherrif as favour by the appeal court judgment of Port Harcourt, recently. The state party chairman, Alhaji […]

Aviation Business

Stakeholders List Gains of Radio Navigation Implementation

Ihesiulo Grace 11 May 2015 0

  The Aeronautical Information Service Association of Nigeria AISAN says the role and importance of Aeronautical Information data has changed significantly with the implementation of Radio Navigation RNAV/RNP an airborne computer based navigation system.   AISAN National President Babatunde Shittu Speaking to journalists on the essence of World AIS day