GAS PRICE HIKE: AGGRIEVED MOTORISTS THREATEN TO SHUTDOWN NIPCO’S STATIONS

  Barely few weeks after NIPCO Plc reopened its seven Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Filling Stations in Benin, Edo State, after they were shutdown for several days by aggrieved motorists in protest against the hike in price of gas, the motorists are threatening fresh showdown with the company, THISDAY has learnt. Over 4,000 motorists, who use CNG as vehicular fuel […]

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STREET TRADERS DARE AMBODE IN LAGOS

Many youths have continued with street trading and hawking in the traffic despite the stance of the state government to go tough on anyone doing so. A few days after Governor Akinwunmi Ambode stated his resolve to enforce an existing law prohibiting these activities, the bustle of street trading has not disappeared. Following the crisis provoked by the death of […]

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IMPORT DUTIES SOAR OVER NEW FOREX RULES

Duties on shipping business at the ports have shot up astronomically in the wake of the new flexible foreign exchange rate policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Already, the Federal Government has launched the implementation of the new policy, which customs and clearing agents lament has hiked duties by about 40 per cent. The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) […]

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DEATH TOLL RISES IN ITALY TRAIN CRASH

At least 10 people were killed Tuesday in a head-on collision between two trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia, fire service officials said. Footage showed emergency services racing to extract people from the wreckage of smashed carriages thrown across a single track near the town of Andria, near Bari. The chief of the firefighting service in Bari said […]

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