Tag: billion

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Adebayo EmuleomoJuly 31, 2016

213bn,12,915… | The 5 numbers that mattered this week

12, 915 The number of ghost workers discovered on the payrolls of 23 local governments in Sokoto N218.7 million The ...

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Mazi EmekaJune 12, 2016

Monthly allocation: Lagos received N178bn while Ekiti got N50bn in one year (Full List)

In the last one year, the thirty-six states and 774 local government councils in Nigeria shared N2.8 trillion from the ...

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Mazi EmekaJune 6, 2016

This is what Nigeria loses daily to Niger Delta Avengers’ bombing of oil pipelines

Oil companies in the Niger Delta are losing a total of 140,000 barrels of crude daily – translating to a ...

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Mazi EmekaMarch 12, 2016

Nigeria’s security agencies shared N16.5bn for ‘2015 elections logistics’

In continuation of the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, anti-graft investigators have discovered that N16.5 billion was allegedly ...

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January 2, 2014

Okey Ndibe: Nigerians yawn over ‘Sanusi’s missing billions’

by Okey Ndibe At any rate, whatever were his designs, Mr. Sanusi failed woefully. He found out, in the most ...

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November 15, 2013

Why Pastor Adeboye suspended work on RCCG’s ‘N20 billion 3-Kilometre auditorium’

by Chi Ibe The billion-naira auditorium is back in the news again. Nigeria’s most revered pentecostal preacher, Enoch Adejare Adeboye ...

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November 15, 2013

N11.5billion only! Guess who now has ‘the most expensive jet in Nigeria’ [Clue: It’s a former governor]

by Chi Ibe The good guys at soft-sell, Encomium Weekly, appear to have done the maths – and they have ...

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November 13, 2013

Gone, baby, gone: External reserves declined by 6.1% last quarter – CBN

by Chi Ibe A report by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has noted that Nigeria’s external reserves declined by ...

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September 25, 2013

#InCaseYouMissedIt: BlackBerry agrees to be acquired for $4.7billion

Fairfax Financial Holdings has agreed to acquire BlackBerry in a deal worth $4.7 billion, both companies announced Monday.The Toronto-based financial holdings conglomerate ...

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March 4, 2013

N384 billion payout: 4 PHCN staff killed, 12 kidnapped, several injured – Labour

Organised labour in the nation’s power sector weekend in Abuja, raised alarm that no fewer than four workers of the ...

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January 30, 2013

#InCaseYouMissedIt: Nigeria spending N7 billion on intervention in Mali – President Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan hinted on Tuesday that Nigeria has committed $34 million (about N7 billion) on the immediate deployment of troops and ...

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October 4, 2012

TICKER: Wow! Facebook hits 1billion users

You know what’s cooler than a million users? A billion users. And now Facebook has just that. Yep, the social ...

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September 18, 2012

TICKER: Money Mill: Dangote Flour posts N2.61bn profit

Dangote Flour Mills has recorded  a gross profit of N2.61 billion for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. The ...

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