Yemisi Izuora The creative artistes, who participated in this year’s edition of Lagos Comic Con, got a booster from Heritage Bank Plc assuring of fund accessibility to operators in the industry. Speaking at the 6th edition of Lagos Comic 2017, held at NECA House, Ikeja, Lagos, Chubike Agu of the Corporate Communications Department of Heritage Bank; commended the audience at the annual event for their perseverance despite all hurdles against them. Agu disclosed that at Heritage Bank, our quest to create wealth across the nation is sacrosanct. According to him, Heritage Bank is known for its paradigm, Timeless Wealth Parter, and it is…
Author: Orientalnews Staff
\ Yemisi Izuora Leadway Assurance has announced its partnership with the National Association Insurance and Pension Correspondents (NAIPCO) on its NAIPCO 2017 conference. The conference themed ‘Legislation of Pensions, Intrigues, Interest, Governance and the People’, is billed to hold on the 25th of October, 2017 in Lagos and will be a forum for insurance and pension stakeholders to discuss legislation of the two sectors and its impact on the people As part of the conference which is in its second edition, Leadway Assurance will facilitate an exclusive one day intensive capacity building training for members of the association. According to the Executive Director, General Business, Leadway Assurance, Ms. Adetola Adegbayi, “We are happy to partner with NAIPCO on the 2017…
Yemisi Izuora Former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company(NNPC),Dr. Jackson Gaius Obaseki, has advised the federal government to consider full deregulation of the entire value chains of the nation’s petroleum sector. Obaseki, who is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Brass Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited spoke at the opening of the 11th Oil Trading and Logistics Expo in Lagos yesterday where he said it was high time Nigeria embraced deregulation in full pledge. He said the Nigeria can no longer afford to stifle growth of the oil sector through regulation which should be…
Yemisi Izuora The federal government says it would attract more youths into the agriculture sector via a new scheme known as Accelerated Agricultural Development Scheme which government believe would increase agricultural production towards food security job creation and economic diversification. The scheme is likely to be launched this October.
Yemisi Izuora The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in line with its intervention strategy in the agriculture sector has disbursed N12.5 billion under the paddy Aggregation Scheme, PAS, a special window under the Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme, CACS. The PAS is a working capital facility for Integrated Rice Millers for a tenor of six months and offered at an interest rate of 9 per cent while the single obligor limit under CACS is to be waived for beneficiaries under the scheme. Giving these details at a 3 day capacity building workshop for CACS agriculture desk officers of Commercial Banks organized…
Hyacinth Chinweuba One of the opposition parties in the country, the Labour Party says it is strategizing with the hope to win the presidential election in 2019. The Acting state Chairman of LP, in Lagos Chief Sam Okpala who made the remark while presenting report of the state Affairs of LP in the state and the assessment tour of the state by the National Vice Chairman, Al-Basiru Apapa, at the weekend, charged members of the executive and members to work towards dislodging the ruling APC in the state. Okpala said the goal was achievable if every member of the party…
Yemisi Izuora The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has charged Air Traffic Controllers in the country to brainstorm and come up with practical and achievable solutions to problems encountered in the provision of air traffic control services in their respective airports across the nation. Giving this charge at the recently concluded Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ Association (NATCA) which held in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, said there is urgent need for NATCA and its members to “re-invent their professional ethos, ethics and commitment, by avoiding…
Yemisi Izuora President Muhammadu Buhari has maintained that his Administration has recorded significant verifiable achievements contrary to the opposition’s statement that the Administration is running on propaganda and lies. The President, who was represented by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the assertion at the opening of the two-day Nigeria Governors’ Forum Conference for Media Handlers of States’ Chief Executives in Abuja on Monday. ”For our Administration, our achievements are there for all to see. We are delivering in the broad areas that formed the plank of our policies: Security, fight against corruption and the economy, which…
Yemisi Izuora Propel, the trademark and brand name of Propetrol Limited, one of Nigeria’s emerging downstream players, has opened a new service station at the popular and strategically-important Trans Amadi Industrial Layout Road in Rumubiakani, Port Harcourt River State. The newest addition, brings to four (4) the number of Propel Service Stations in Port Harcourt and 19 across its retail network in Lagos, Ondo, Cross River and Edo States. According to Mr. Harry Ebohon, the Chief Executive Officer of Propetrol Limited, the launch of another Propel Service Station in Port Harcourt is a strategic step taken to enable the brand expand…
Yemisi Izuora Ondo state government is taking steps to revive the OK Liquefied Natural Gas, plant which is run by the government. To achieve the objective, the State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu said government would be partnering with other stakeholders like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and Chevron. This was the high point of a meeting held in the office of the Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari, at the Presidential Villa on Sunday. Akeredolu noted that the initiative emanated from the state’s economic and industrialization summit held in June, 2017. He explained that the gas programme…