Day: December 11, 2023

Nigeria Rejects 328 Expatriate Requests From Oil Firms In 12 Months

ADEOLA YUSUF

NCDMB hits 83% 10-year roadmap target, gives reasons oil firms’ expatriate applications surge by 359 in one year   The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has rejected 328 expatriate applications from oil firms just as it hits 83 per cent of its 10-tear roadmap target Platforms Africa reports that the Manager of strategy at the NCDMB, Mr. Olubisi Okunola, who reeled out these data at the capacity building workshop for media stakeholders in Lagos, maintained that the board received more applications for expatriates quota increase in 2023 than…

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CBN: Why There’s Naira Scarcity

Abibat Babalola

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has explained the reasons behind scarcity of naira notes in the country. This comes following a series of complaints by some bank customers on the scarcity of naira notes at the counters, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), Points of Sale (PoS), and Bureaux de Change (BDCs). In a statement issued by the Corporate Communications Department of the CBN, the apex bank said the seeming currency scarcity was occasioned by large volume withdrawals of cash from various CBN branches by Deposit Money Banks (DMBs). READ ALSO:…

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Popular Ewi Exponent, Lanrewaju Adepoju, Is Dead

Gbenga Adeoti

  “How he took the final bow at 83″   Popular Ewi Exponent , Alhaji OLANREWAJU Adepoju is dead. Platforms Africa reports that his death was confirmed on Sunday 10 December, 2023 by his son Adejare Adepoju, via a terse announcement. READ ALSO: Bishop Kukah To Fresh Graduates: Feel Free To ‘Japa’ Mercy Aigbe: There’s So Much Love To Share With My Husband’s First Wife Husband Disguises To Kill Wife, Sell Off TV To Furnish His Shop Kaduna: “They Bombed Us Twice,” Victims Reveal As Death Toll Hits 120 “Baba…

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