Vanguard Newspaper

By Emem Idio SOME angry  landowners have protested the alleged eviction from their lands by Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, for its ENGL Pipelines Enwhe, Gbarain Phase 3A Project (Akenfa/Okarki axis) in Bayelsa and Rivers states. The landowners, who stormed one of the project sites located in Okarki, a boundary community in Rivers State, yesterday, …

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…Wike, Makinde, Fintiri want chairman out …Obaseki, Bala Mohammed, Okowa, others back embattled chair …Ortom, Emmanuel, Tambuwal neutral …4 NWC members consider resignation …Attempt to hijack party 4 months to convention’ll lead to implosion — Senator Dickson …Destructive Father Christmas’ behind my ordeal- Secondus …Meets aggrieved party officers, appeals for calm …No hand in Secondus’ …

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By Nkiruka Nnorom   Stanbic IBTC Asset Management Limited has urged corporate organisations and project developers, among others, to explore its recently launched N100 billion infrastructure fund, saying that the  establishment of the Fund was borne out of the need to bring to the fore the many opportunities for investments beyond the traditional investment propositions. Dolu …

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*Indicts Customs, lists operational requirements By Godfrey Bivwere The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has alleged that the bonded terminals approved by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) are ill-equipped for operation in contradiction of the Customs Excise and Management Act (CEMA). The allegation contained in a letter the Association sent to the …

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Eurobonds By Emma Ujah & Elizabeth Adegbesan The federal government has appointed Transaction Advisers for a $6.2 billion Eurobond Issuance set for part-funding of its estimated N5.2 trillion deficit in the 2021 Budget. According to the Debt management Office (DMO), the Federal Executive Council (FEC), at its meeting on Wednesday, yesterday, approved the advisory services. …

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Fund has many descriptions. It can be a large supply of money set aside for something. An example is the sinking fund, which is money set aside periodically by a bond issuer to redeem the debt at maturity. Another example is fund set aside by government, such as FGN’s Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TetFund) which …

Investment opportunity in Funds Read More »

Almost everyone in life started out in their career with income that is bigger than their bills. Over time they amass so much bills that their bills overtake their income.  From this point forward only 15% of working professionals will reverse the equation. And among this 15%, only 4% reach the point where their income …

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The Honourable Minister of Works and Housing, Barrister Babatunde Fashola, and two-term Lagos State Governor has goofed. On the sideline of his recent inspection of the two bridges built by the Federal Government in Cross River State, the trained lawyer who suddenly became an engineer during the first term of the present Administration has also …

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The global pandemic has left in its toll untold pains and damage to all facets of our humanity. Most of the worst hit countries are faced with the challenges of breakdown in health infrastructure and shortage of health personnel in the midst of a dwindling economic outlook. It is noteworthy to say that the country …

Insurance in the time of insecurity and the pandemic Read More »