Kaduna State Government has reduced work days for public servants to four days with effect from Dec. 1. The government said the measure was designed to boost productivity, improve work-life balance and enable workers to have more time for their…
Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey is stepping down from his role and Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal will now lead the company, the social networking site announced on Monday. The appointment of Agrawal, a 10-year veteran of Twitter, marks an…
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Faruq, on Monday handed over 400,000 feeding utensils to primary schools in Kaduna State, under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme. The minister said while presenting the utensils…
Sen. Godiya Akwashiki (APC- Nasarawa North) has distributed 60 motorcycles, 170 sewing machines,160 grinding machines and N3.6 million cash to 570 people in his constituency. This, he said, was to uplift the standard of living of the people positively. Akwashiki,…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited started its activities for the week at the World Bank Nigeria Development Update in Abuja, with a fresh commitment to the ongoing reform in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria. The event…
Seplat Energy Plc today, confirmed that it is in ‘competitive discussions’ with a partner to acquire ExxonMobil’s Nigerian shallow water business. The confirmation is sequel to recent press speculation on the issue. Reacting to the development, the leading indigenous energy…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has begun rehabilitation and replacement of old circuit breakers on the country’s transmission network to improve bulk power transmission to distribution centres nationwide. The work, which was officially flagged off at the 37-year-old 330/132kV…
Last year October, the Federal Government had disclosed a Presidential Youth Empowerment Scheme to get no less than 774,000 youths engaged – a programme expected to spread across the six geopolitical zones in the Country. The scheme which was noised…
Trading in the domestic equities market started the week on Monday with negative sentiments following sell pressure in Presco and 20 other stocks. Speficially, the market capitalisation which opened at N22.598 trillion lost N20 billion or 0.09 per cent to…
At the end of today’s trading session, Presco Plc share price depreciated by 1.24% to close at N87.80 per share, taking the market capitalization from N88.90 billion to N87.80 billion. Presco Plc, today recorded a loss in share prices which…
