Category: Business
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Nigeria’s First Lady Empowers 500 Women in A’Ibom
Akwa Ibom First Lady Designate, Lady Helen Obareki (3rd from right), Wife of Senate President, Dr. Ekaette Unoma Akpabio (4th from right) and others presenting one of the items to a beneficiary on Saturday. By Anietie Akpan Wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has empowered 500 Women in Akwa Ibom State with empowerment items…
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We’ll Revive Songhai Farms Soon – Ibas
Songhai Integrated Farms Coordinator, Dr Tammy Jaja conducting the Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Adm. Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd) round facilities of the farms. By Dianabasi Effiong The Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Adm. lbok-Ete lbas (rtd), says he will implement strategic measures to revive the state-owned Songhai Integrated Farms to boost food production and create…
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C’River Govt. Gives Firm One Month Ultimatum to Sit Up or Face Consequences
By Ita Williams, Calabar Cross River state government has given Winsong M-House, a Nigerian oil palm firm, a one month matching order to implement the Share Sale and Purchase Agreement (SSPE) for Ayip Eku Oil Palm Estate. Failure to do this may attract dire consequences as the state government and host communities were not pleased…
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Marian Market to Have Ultramodern Structures Like New Wuse Market – Mayor
By Magnus Effiong The Mayor of Calabar, Apostle James Anam, has said he was poised to replicate the Abuja’s new Wuse market at the Marian (aka Ika Ika Oqua) and Ikot Ishie markets with ultramodern structures and transform the two markets to conform with the tourism inclination of the Cross River state government Apostle Anam,…
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AfDB Partnering Cross River to Become Business Hub in West Africa, Gulf of Guinea
L-R: Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey, Governor Bassey Otu, President, AfDB, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina and his wife at the state banquet in Calabar. By Anietie Akpan Partnering African Development Bank (AfDB), Cross River will soon become a major business hub in West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea. To actualise…
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Woman Who Cried For Help in Viral Video Gets Intervention
Excited Mrs. Ifeoma Itoro showing off the donated factory equipment from the Governor . By Anietie Akpan Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, on Tuesday, handed over a fully refurbished factory and equipment, as well as N2 million naira as working capital to Mrs. Ifeoma Itoro, a local food processor. This mouth watering gesture,…
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NUC Secretary Lauds UniCal VC Over N2.1bn Projects
By Magnus Effiong The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof Abdullahi Yusufu Ribadu, has lauded the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof Florence Banku Obi, for her passion in completing projects which were abandoned and for initiating new ones. Prof Ribadu who spoke while commissioning five projects estimated at N2.1 billion…
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Cross River Govt. Opens Technical Bids for Revitalization of Oil Palm Estates
By Anietie Akpan The Cross River State Government has opened technical bids for the privatization of some her age-old agro-allied estates and industries in the state. They are Erei Farm Settlement Oil Palm Estates, comprising the following: Ikun, Urugbam, and Egbor Oil Palm Estates, all in Biase Local Government Area. A press release dated March…
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Ayade, Hope Waddell land dispute settled – Presbyterian Prelate
By Magnus Effiong The Presbyterian Church has said that the rift between its Hope Waddell branch in Calabar and the immediate past Cross River governor, Prof Ben Ayade, over part of its land which was taken by the former governor for his residential building, had been settled amicably. The Prelate of the Church, Dr Ekpenyong…
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CREDICORP N20bn Fund Will Make it Easier for Nigerians to Own Brand New Vehicles, TMV
By Dianabasi Effiong The Tinubu Media Volunteers (TMV) have said the rollout of the first beneficiaries of the N20 billion CREDICORP fund has opened a window of opportunity for Nigerians desiring brand-new vehicles. In a statement signed by its Chairman Chukwudi Enekwechi and Secretary Shedrach Sunday, the group acknowledged that the Consumer Credit Corporation (CREDICORP)…