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CBN disowns fake Twitter handle

ABUJA The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has described as fraudulent the operations of a twitter handle, @YusufPhilipYila, purported to belong to the Bank’s Director, Development Finance Department, Mr. Philip Yila Yusuf. According to CBN’s Director of Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor, the impostor handle has been posting messages related to …

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 Maritime: Nigeria developing policies to improve seafarers training, certification, remuneration    … Seafarers are Key to Humanity’s Survival, Wellbeing Amid COVID-19-Jamoh … As NIMASA  gives palliatives to Seafarers

Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has disclosed that there are policies in the pipeline to improve the quality of training and certification, as well as remuneration for the country’s seafarers. Jamoh stated this on Thursday in Lagos during a webinar hosted by …

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$2.8 billion AKK pipeline project: Buhari strikes again! By Femi Adesina

Something good is already happening. Something marvelous is in store, as Federal Government kickstarts the $2.8 billion Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) National Gas Pipeline Project next Tuesday. It’s another humongous signature milestone by President Muhammadu Buhari, which will leave his footprints inexorably on the sands of time. Roads. Bridges. Rail. Airports. Social …

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NNPC produces 218.37 billion Cubic Feet (BCF) of natural gas in March … Records 47 per cent decrease in pipeline vandalism

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that 218.37 billion Cubic Feet (BCF) of natural gas was produced in March 2020, translating to an average daily production of 7493.65Million Standard Cubic Feet per Day (mmscfd). This was contained in NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report for March, 2020, …

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World Sickle Cell Day: Obi fetes Sickle Cell patients •Calls for more awareness of disorder

Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has celebrated the 2020 World Sickle Cell Day with the Association of People Living with Sickle Cell Disorder (APLSCD) in Nigeria by donating relief materials to them. Obi, who called for more awareness of …

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