Compliance with the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGIC) Act of 2010 will soon be a key condition for local and foreign operators to participate in oil bid rounds and also to secure licences, permits and approvals in the industry, THISDAY has learnt.
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Air Nigeria will cooperate with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to ensure that issues relating to the suspension of its domestic and regional flight operations are resolved, a statement said. The airline’s Head of Media Relations, Mr Sam Ogbogoro, said in an online statement in Lagos on Monday that the airline had operated strictly in compliance with safety regulations and had at no time compromised on standards.
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An Igbo socio-political group, Committee 21, has called on the constitutional amendment committee of the National Assembly to ensure that the Igbo nation gets fair justice when it commences work on the statute book.
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SINCE the campaign for the July 14 governorship election kicked off in Edo State, the activities of Edo youths have been consistently hallmarked by the intellectual need to place government within a comprehensive, practical and imaginative context.
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The National Economic Council, yesterday, called for the boosting of the Excess Crude Account, ECA, from $5.3 billion to $10 billion to provide a buffer for the economy for at least three months as a means of protecting the country from the mounting uncertainty in the global economy.
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A chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ipokia local government area of Ogun State, Mr. Solomon Ogunbele, was reportedly killed by unknown persons on Sunday night.
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THE management of Mainstreet Bank Plc, formerly Afribank Plc, Friday, sacked no fewer than 800 workers despite the Federal Government’s directive to the management of the bank and organised labour to maintain status quo pending resolution of labour issues between the management and labour.
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IMO State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, yesterday warned that he would not hesitate to sack any member of the State Executive Council that fell short of expectation. Okorocha, who read the riot act while swearing-in the new commissioners, also said his administration was in a hurry to deliver dividends of democracy to the citizenry.
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A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday ordered the Clerk of the National Assembly to release to Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP), a non governmental organisation details of the salary, emolument and allowances collected by legislators between 2007 and 2011.
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two former governors of Borno and Kano States, Senator Modu Sheriff and Mallam Ibrahim Shekaru are among the top contenders for the vacant seat of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).
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