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Oduwole: Free Zones Must Earn Incentives Through Exports, Not Domestic Diversion
• Says economic zones have recorded $200 billion, N900 billion in foreign, local investments respectively •FG seeks to abolish zone’s tax arbitrage, tightens rules •New regulations clarify customs, tax responsibilities
Hardship: NLC backs workers’ demand for N500 petrol price, N500,000 minimum wage
***Give Sept. 30 deadline for fuel price slash, wage award ***Civil servants’ demands realistic, legitimate –— LABOUR By Victor Ahiuma-Young LAGOS — The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and civil servants,
PCE Nigeria, Lantic to Deploy AKK, OB3 Pipeline Expertise to New Projects
• Firms target growing demand for specialised pipeline construction Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja PCE Nigeria Limited and its partner, Lantic, are seeking to deploy the engineering expertise gained from two
33 months unpaid rent threatens war against oil bunkering
By Jimitota Onoyume, Assistant News Editor The war against illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta may be facing an unlikely, yet potent, enemy from a massive backlog of unpaid
37 lives in custody: When the state becomes accountable to the dead, by Ejiro Ofoye
Nigeria is once again confronted with a tragedy that should trouble the conscience of every citizen: 37 people arrested over alleged illegal mining have died in the custody of the
King Jaja’s challenge to Nigeria: Power, defiance and economic self-determination, by Dakuku Peterside
If King Jaja of Opobo were alive today, where would he stand amid Nigeria’s diplomatic pressure, economic uncertainty and deepening social tension—and what would he do? Would he negotiate, confront,
Niger Delta development beyond summits
The Niger Delta’s enormous natural endowment should have made it a prosperous region. Instead, poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation and deficient public services remain widespread. This contradiction gives Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s
Tenants groan over exorbitant rents in Calabar
….As landlords smile to the bank By Emma Una CALABAR—IF Shylock the Jewish merchant was a mere fictional character in William Shakespeare’s ,The Merchant of Venice, such a figure has
Why Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, by Eric Teniola
I guess it is not by accident that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, is constructing a highway between Calabar and Lagos. The construction is political, historical and economical. I will
Disputed $4.66m: Court acquits Lionstone MD, Ndili, firms
By Henry Ojelu The Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has discharged and acquitted the Managing Director of Lionstone Offshore Services Limited and Lionstone Company Limited, Mr Amaechi Ndili,
