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This was contained in statement by Ohi Alegbe, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Department of NNPC in Abuja on Tuesday

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the volume of transactions represented 6.96 per cent increase over the 293.666 million shares worth N3.50 billion traded in 4,107 deals on Friday

The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs of NNPC, Ohi Alegbe, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja

Ozo-Eson said that the implication of some of the government austerity measures, occasioned by the global fall in crude oil price, had started impacting negatively on workers

The ITF Director-General, Juliet Chukkas-Onaeko, made this known at an interactive forum with stakeholders in Lagos on Monday

The Public Relations Officer of the command, Chris Osunkwo, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the amount was less than the N27.1 billion collected in October

Goje, an All Progressives Congress senator, specifically said that the Senate leadership had not only starved the committee of funds, but had frustrated its efforts to carry out necessary activities to pass the Bill

Dr. Ausbeth Ajagu, the President of the Academy of Entrepreneurial Studies, said the theme for this year’s year’s dinner, which is: “Developing Domestic Capacities for Global Competitiveness,” was carefully chosen because competitiveness is at the heart of all the issues concerning the preparedness of the Nigerian economy to survive without oil

The anti-labour activities listed by the oil workers include unjust delay in the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, retardation of staff promotion in the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, non-standardisation of nomenclature and collective bargaining agreement of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Agency in line with what obtains in other agencies in the oil and gas industry, refusal of the Management of Addax/Petrostuff Nigeria Limited and Chevron/Sudelletra to recall sacked staff, Petrobras management’s unprocedural release of staff and its refusal to renew expired Collective Agreement, the unjust termination of the appointment of the Port Harcourt Zonal Secretary and Treasurer of PENGASSAN and NUPENG respectively

He said the conference reached a consensus on output and the election of Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, as first female President of the OPEC

The statement said that the shareholders’ approvals were obtained at two separate Court Ordered Meetings held in Lagos on December 4

While reacting to a newspaper report of Chidoka’s appraisal confirming MMA2 as the only Airport terminal with high rating in the country, Bi-Courtney listed the benefits of privatization and commended the Minister for his objective appraisal, his refusal to mislead the country on the true state of the nation’s Aviation industry and the positive steps he has taken to arrest the decay in the sector

The director-general said that NECA collaborated with the Industrial Training Fund to ensure that unemployment was reduced in Nigeria by training youths on dress making

The warehouse was closed on November 19, following a clash between customs men and members of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents at the airport

Dikki said the bureau had numerous challenges, which included outstanding unpaid terminal benefits of ex-staff of NITEL and MTEL and arrears of salaries of trained staff, among others

Speaking to State House correspondents on Wednesday, Alison-Madueke, however, admitted that she was taking over the leadership of OPEC at a challenging period.
Her words: “This is a very challenging time as you know for OPEC and for the global crude oil wells as a whole

“From each of the six geopolitical zones, we took one institution and because the bulk is in Lagos, we have four more institutions in Lagos

The bill, which was co-sponsored by the Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, and Senator Nenadi Usman, was referred to the Committee on Investment

The market capitalisation, which opened at N11.404 trillion, lost N208 billion or 1.82 per cent to close at N11.196 trillion due to price losses by some blue chips

This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos by the Public Relations Officer of the association, Simeon Nwonu