The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved an interim agreement for the concession of the Lagos-Kano and Port Harcourt-Maiduguri old narrow gauge railway lines to a consortium led US engineering conglomerate, General Electric (GE).
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NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (NADDC) VISITS INNOSON IN NNEWI (PICTURES)
The National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), led by its Director-General, Mr. Aliyu Jelani during the week paid a courtesy visit to the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company in Nnewi, Anambra State.
Continue reading »‘2016 LEXUS JEEP, ONE PRADO JEEP AND TWO HILUX VANS, PERSONAL GIFT TO ME BY OSHIOMHOLE’ – IMPEACHED EDO DEP. SPEAKER
A fresh crisis may be brewing in the Edo State House of Assembly as the impeached Deputy Speaker, Mrs. Elizabeth Ativie, has held on to the cars, which the House directed her to return to new principal officers, claiming that the cars were given to her as gifts by a former governor, Adams Oshiomhole.
Continue reading »CRACKDOWN ON SMUGGLING: EXOTIC CARS IMPOUNDED (PICTURES)
The Nigeria Customs Service’ intensified anti-smuggling activities has continued to yield more results as the Federal Operations Units, Zone “C” Owerri, intercepted smuggled exotic cars and a number of contraband items. The exotic cars include a white Bentley.
Continue reading »NINE MISTAKES CAR BUYERS IN NIGERIA USUALLY MAKE
BUYING IN A HASTE Buying a car is totally different from buying hot wheels cars from Shoprite’s toy rack; where kids spot the toy of their choice, point a finger and it’s theirs in a minute. As we all know, the kid may damage the toy before the next day.
Continue reading »FIVE TERROR SUSPECTS SHOT DEAD AFTER RAMPAGING VAN DRIVER PLOUGHS INTO CROWD KILLING 13 PEOPLE (PICTURES)
BARCELONA (SPAIN) – Spanish police shot dead five would-be attackers after confronting them early on Friday in a town south of Barcelona where hours earlier a suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds, killing 13 people and wounding scores of others.
Continue reading »INVESTORS TO BUILD TWO REFINERIES IN PORT HARCOURT, WARRI –NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Thursday said two private Nigerian companies had been selected to build two refineries in Port Harcourt and Warri under the co-location initiative of the Federal Government.
Continue reading »GRIDLOCK ON IKORODU-MILE 12 ROAD GENERATES PAIN, ANGER
— Commuters urge Lagos State govt to repair damaged portion Lagos is synonymous with gridlocks. From the Island to the Mainland, Ikeja through Ikorodu to Oshodi and Sango, no part is spared. People languish in traffic for hours on end. This is one of the perennial challenges visitors and residents of the metropolis are left to contend with year in, […]
Continue reading »NADDC INTRODUCES ROAD WORTHINESS PROOF FOR CLEARING TOKUNBO CARS
Importers of used vehicles will soon face the task of ensuring that such automobiles are accompanied by valid certificates of road-worthiness from the countries of origin, to indicate that they do not pose health and motoring hazards, before they can be allowed into the country.
Continue reading »LAGOS-BADAGRY EXPRESSWAY PROJECT ON COURSE – CCECC
The China Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC), Contractors handling the expansion of the Lagos/Badagry Expressway project, on Thursday assured Lagos residents that the project would be delivered on schedule.
Continue reading »AIR TRANSPORT UNION GIVES SAHCOL SEVEN DAYS ULTIMATUM OVER CONDITION OF SERVICE
The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has given Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL) a seven-day ultimatum to review the Conditions of Service of its workers and that failure to do so would lead to grounding of the company’s operation.
Continue reading »‘WE’RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PRICE HIKE OF VEHICLES’
Contrary to reports that the National Automotive Industry Development Plan (NAIDP) policy was punitive and responsible for the increase in smuggled vehicles, the National Automotive Design and Development Council, (NADDC) has said that the agency was shocked that the policy has been blamed for increased prices of imported used vehicles, otherwise known as ‘tokunbo’ when the provision to levy them […]
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