Day: October 13, 2023

A Day to Remember at NCDMB

Efe Wellington

It was Tuesday, October 10, and the Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, was at the corporate headquarters of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Swali, Yenagoa, for a one-day visit and tour of the Board’s facilities and projects in Bayelsa State. Being 11 days shy of the first anniversary of the conferment of the Distinguished Capacity Development Award on the Executive Secretary of the Board, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, by the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari, it was tempting to believe that…

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Toothpick, Wheelbarrow’s Importers Can Now Access Forex – CBN

Damilola Olonade

  “How will those factories compete now…There is forex scarcity.. We have huge dollar denominated debt. The unemployment rate is 25% and galloping inflation. Sincerely, I need education on Tinubunomics..” You actually want to read what some Nigerians said on this, here    Some Nigerians have taken to the Platforms Africa forum to query the lifting of foreign exchange access ban on 43 items including toothpicks, and wheelbarrows, by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The apex ban, Platforms Africa earlier reported,  lifted the ban on 43 items previously restricted…

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Nigerian Navy Intercepts Fishing Boat Laden With Contraband

Precious Ibekwe

“It’s 44 bags of parboiled rice,” how, why we handed over contraband to officials of the Nigerian Customs Service   – Navy + PHOTOS   The Nigerian Navy has said that its Ship BEECROFT patrol team apprehended a wooden fishing boat laden with bags of rice in the creeks of Agbara, Lagos state. Platforms Africa reports that a statement issued by Base information officer, NNS BEECROFT, Sub Lieutenant HA Collins, noted that the boat’s occupants, upon sighting the patrol team, abandoned boat and fled. The patrol team effectively secured the boat,…

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