Barely a week after a gallant soldier, Lt. Col Muhammed Abu-Ali was killed by Boko Haram members in Mallam Fatori, Borno state, the sect members yesterday ambushed and killed another Lieutenant Colonel, B.U. Umar, the commanding officer of 114 TF battalion of the Nigerian Army. (more…)
Garba Shehu The Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in an interview with Pyramid Radio in Kano, has said that aggressive exportation of grains may lead to famine in the country starting from January 2017, (more…)
In a document titled “Working Paper” shared to members of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is seeking powers to amend the Foreign Exchange, Monitoring and Miscellaneous Exchange Act (FEMM) which was signed into law in 2014 and allows for foreign investors to import and repatriate money to and fro Nigeria freely. (more…)
Senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Ben Murray-Bruce, on Monday, said that airlines are no longer servicing their aircraft due to lack of access to FOREX. He made this known in a series of Tweets. Murray-Bruce said that he got his information from ‘the head of an airline’. (more…)
Rice farmers in Plateau are optimistic of a bumper harvest this year with their chairman, Joshua Bitrus, boasting that members would garner “ at least one million tonnes”. “This year’s harvest is plentiful; from what we have seen on ground, we expect nothing less than one million tonnes of rice in Plateau,” Mr. Bitrus, Chairman, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RiFAN), Plateau chapter, said in Jos on Sunday. (more…)
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