…Declares N39.06Bn In 2018 Yemisi Izuora Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card, generated the highest revenue of N20.35 billion in 2018 and N19.03 billion in 2017, for the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS. Overall, the NIS, generated N39.06 billion in 2018 as against N35.72 billion it generated as local revenue in 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics said. The bureau said this in its “Immigration Statistics of 2018” obtained from the NBS website on Sunday in Abuja. According to the report, the increase in revenue represents a positive growth of 9.34 per cent. It also said that revenue from Passports…
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Yemisi Izuora The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has appointed reputation and public relations professional Mr. Olusegun Michael Fafore as his Executive Assistant on Public Relations and New Media. Until his appointment, Fafore was the Consultant-in-Chief of Reputation Plus Limited, a reputation and communication management company he founded a few years ago. Fafore’s career in the Corporate Communications and Brand/Reputation management business began shortly after he graduated with a B. A. (Hons), degree in English, from Obafemi Awolowo University in 1999 when he joined Access Bank where he rose to become the Head of Corporate Communication of the bank…
Yemisi Izuora Stakeholders in the insurance industry, last week, honored their departed colleagues with Service of Songs held at the Chapel of Christ the Light in Alausa, Ikeja. During the ceremony tributes were paid to Dr. Oladipo Bailey, Professor Moses Olorunfumi Adeyemi and Mrs Uju Ndubuisi Chukwu, for the good legacies they all left behind. While the industry agreed that their shoes would be difficult to fill, they solace in the fact that the trio left good legacies behind, which if emulated, will grow the insurance sector of the nation’s economy. Paying tribute to Chief Oladipo Bailey, the President, Chartered…
Yemisi Izuora Dana Air has tendered apology to its customers over the disruption of their flights on different routes on Thursday , Friday and Saturday. The airline in statement by its media and Communications Manager Kingsley Ezenwa said some of the airline’s scheduled flights were disrupted due to nose steering lock on one of its Abuja to Lagos flight which also made the airline to ground the aircraft in line with its strict safety standards. “On Thursday July 11 2019, one of our Lagos Abuja flight developed a nose wheel issue issue upon Landing in Abuja and after a thorough assessment by…
Yemisi Izuora Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Joint Venture, JV in 2018 spent more than N390 million on developments of projects in its Global Memorandum of Understanding, GMoU clusters on roads, and schools among other projects in Delta state. Igo Weli, SPDC General Manager, External Relations, in a statement at the weekend also expressed the company’s desire to sustain programmes and galvanise the economic growth of the state. He explained that the global oil multinational company have ongoing projects and social investment schemes in the state. He enumerated some of them to include the Sea Eagle Floating Production, Storage and Offloading…
Tunde Bakare The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has condemned the killing on Friday of Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the leader of pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. Adams, who is the Leader of Oodua Peoples Congress, described Olakunrin’s killing by suspected herdsmen in Ondo State as one too many by Fulanis who are invading the South West in their numbers and perpetrating atrocities. In a statement by his Media Assistant, Kehinde Aderemi, on Saturday, the Aare Onakakanfo said the Yoruba race was not at a loss as to what to do to put a complete…
Anthony Chukwura The Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board in Kaduna state has announced the departure of the first set of pilgrims from the state. The Board said 542 Pilgrims that made up the first batch left Kaduna International Airport on Sunday, for Saudi Arabia for the 2019 Hajj. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the board, Yunusa Abdullahi, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday in Kaduna. He said the pilgrims were from Igabi, Lere, Kauru, Makarfi and Zangon Kataf Local Government Areas of the state, adding that they departed to the holy land on Med View airline. According to him,…
Yemisi Izuora There is a new effort on the part of government to deal with cybercrime in the country especially as it affects the financial sub sector of the economy. The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof. Umar Danbatta, who made the disclosed in Kano, at the 2019 Annual Dinner and Awards Night organized by the Society of Engineers (NSE), Kabuga branch, said stringent measures are being put in place to deal with the situation. Dambatta, who expressed concern over the ugly trend, said that cybercrime would soon be a thing of the past as the federal…
Yemisi Izuora The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), has taken new steps to improve on digitalization efforts of the nation’s aeronautical information service (AIS) with the installation of prefabricated pilot joint briefing offices nationwide. The installation team which has completed work at Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos has proceeded to another airport and is expected to continue the installation in 21 airports and 3 aerodromes nationwide. When operational, the prefabricated offices will provide a one-stop shop at the airside where crew members can obtain AIS briefing, meteorological information and make necessary payments at a single point in compliance with International…
Yemisi Izuora The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has declared SUNRISE brand of Electric Cables as substandard. The Agency also expressed concern over the spread of the products in the Nigerian markets advising consumers to avoid patronage of the product, while it also warned dealers in electric cables to avoid sale of the product or risk seizure by SON officials wherever it is found as well as the prosecution of the offenders. The SON Director General, Osita Aboloma in a statement disclosed that a large consignment of the substandard and life-endangering SUNRISE cable which managed to find their way into…