Business

Covid 19: Bayelsa Entrepreneurs Groan Over Loses, As Govt Plans Market Shutdown By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  Due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease, codenamed Covid 19, businesses in Bayelsa State like their contemporaries in other climes have started recounting loses owing to restrictions placed by the government as part of its …

By Joel Anekwe  Oginigba community, in the Port Harcourt City Council of Rivers State, at the weekend got a N44 million Primary Health Care Centre, courtesy of the International Breweries Plc. The health centre, which was started in 2019 is a state of the art health facility equipped with medical …

By Joel Anekwe, Port Harcourt The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has declared its opposition to the planned ban on electricity generating sets, noting that it would have negative impact on the nation’s economy.  The umbrella body of manufacturers in Nigeria came out with this position during its 303rd National …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  Some 70 members of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) on Monday bemoaned the nonpayment of their severance package 10 years after they were sacked by Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), subsidiary of US firm ExxonMobil. They said that they were disengaged in 2009 before …

By John Amaowoh Over five thousand young men and youths have kicked against the ban on the activities of cart pushers on the streets of Port Harcourt and its environs by the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA). The cart pushers, who are mostly Northerners youths, have called on the …

By Mineh Okioma, Yenagoa  The Bayelsa International Airport will be formally commissioned on Monday, February 10, 2020, the state commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson has said. The commissioning is coming a year after the inaugural flight to the airport which was embarked on by Governor Seriake Dickson. Iworiso-Markson …

Despite increasing efforts to ensure ease of doing business in the Eastern ports, national trustee member of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), Comrade Waite Harry, says the Federal Government is not doing enough to develop the ports in the region. Waite’s comment comes as the Nigerian Ports Authority …

… As Staff Cooperative Set Up Microfinance Bank Acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Joi Nunieh, has applauded the vision and quality behind the setting up of a micro finance bank by the NDDC Staff Cooperative Investment and Credit Society Limited. Speaking in Port Harcourt …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  A yet-to-be identified Marijuana smoker, Thursday, allegedly started a fire that razed about ten shops in the popular Swali Ultra-Modern Market in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Although, no lives were, lost but several persons were said to have sustained various degrees of injuries …

By Joel Anekwe  The Rivers State Government has begun a significant step towards increasing investment in its economy with Governor Nyesom Wike inaugurating the Rivers State Ease of Doing Business Council (EODBC). Inaugurating the council at the Government House Port Harcourt on Monday, Governor Wike said that the council is …