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Filipino seafarers Remit $5.5b, Gets Improved Working Conditions
There are at least 229,000 Filipino seafarers employed on shipping vessels around the world at any given time, a quarter of the 1.5 million seafarers worldwide. ... -
Mediterranean Sea Swallow More Migrants
For reasons not unconnected with dwindling economic opportunities, dearth of infrastructure, policy inconsistency among others in the continent of Africa, thousands of migrants continue to take ... -
Osinbajo Calls for Local Patronage, Sign Three Executive Orders
The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has reemphasized that the present administration is committed to ensuring that government and its citizens patronise locally made products. To this ... -
Ambode Bans VIOs From Lagos Permanently, Ask FRSC to Stay off too
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has asked Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIOs) to stay permanently off all roads across the state, thereby challenging them to come ... -
Truck Owners Set to Sue NPA, FRSC over Extortion of Members
As the withdrawal of service by clearing agents and other stakeholders continues at the nation’s seaports, a body of truck owners under the auspices of Joint ... -
Senate Query NIMASA, others for Unapproved Expenditure
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has expressed displeasure over the failure by most government agencies to submit their 2017 budget proposals to the National Assembly ... -
Port Access Roads: “We Are Ready To Fix the Roads”- Bala Usman
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said it would raise N4.3 billion to reconstruct access roads around Apapa Port as port operators withdrew services over poor ... -
Costa Concordia: Captain Gets 16 Years in Prison
The former captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner has been sentenced to 16 years in prison by Italy’s highest court for his role in the ... -
Fuel Importation: Reps invite NNPC, Marketers, by Judith Nwaode
The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Review of Pump Price of Petrol has directed the NNPC and its subsidiaries to make public the true cost of ... -
Pastor Finds Diamond, Rejects $7.8m Offer…by Perpetual Anaele
For Emmanuel Momoh, the pastor who found an egg size diamond and gave to his government to sell, offer after offer are are yet to meet his ...