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Management of Dangote Refinery have debunked a report published on the online platforms of some media organisations that the company employed 11,000 skilled workers from India while allegedly neglecting youths from Nigeria and other African countries. In his response, the Group Chief Branding & Communications Officer, Anthony Chiejina said the …

Air Canada and Emirates Airlines have announced a customer service milestone in the two airlines’ strategic partnership with the move of Air Canada’s operations to Dubai International’s (DXB) flagship Terminal 3 as of July 26th. The co-location of operations in one of the world’s premier terminals will significantly improve the …

Dangote Refinery The Sub-Saharan African Skills and Apprenticeship Stakeholders Network has explained why the Dangote refinery engaged 11,000 skilled workers from India while neglecting youths from Nigeria and other African countries. The network, on Wednesday, noted that the reason for the neglect was that youths from Nigeria lacked the adequate …

Photo: The Cable The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned the public altercation between operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) on the premises of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday over custody of the suspended Central Bank of …

The more things change, the more they stay the same, the French writer, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, wrote in 1849. It is, therefore, not surprising that nine years after he was fuming in the mouth in political fits, he will resort to same crass tactics of name-calling, absolute falsehood and dubious …

Popular Chinese short-form video hosting platform, TikTok, has introduced text-only posts, becoming the latest social media platform to adopt the format, seemingly as an alternative for people seeking to leave Twitter. The platform announced that it will now allow users to create and share text-based content as a way to broaden …

Nigerian youths have commended the group chief executive officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd), Mallam Mele Kyari, for promoting transparency, probity, accountability, and good governance in the Nigerian oil and gas industry vis-à-vis his handling of the recent fuel subsidy removal initiative. The youths, under the …

Nigeria’s total telecoms solutions provider, Globacom, and top fintech platform, PalmPay have unveiled a new promotion campaign, “PalmPay Bonanza – Recharge Glo and Win,”  which gives Nigerians who purchase Glo data and airtime bundles via the PalmPay platform opportunity to win exciting rewards. The promotion runs between July 21 and …

In the Nigerian banking industry, Wema Bank, Plc is widely acknowledged to be a leader in the realms of innovation and technology, and for constantly seeking to provide seamless financial services to its teeming customers, but is the financial powerhouse a champion of its employees’ best interests? Yes, the most …

Forex •Importers abandon full coverage, go for clause ‘C’ insurance There are indications that the perennial crises in the Nigeria’s foreign exchange market have negatively impacted the projected growth in marine and shipping insurance business. Recent data has shown that the growth rate is far below what the industry operators …