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Stallion Motors Dares Segment Leaders with Affordably-priced Changan CS35 SUV

Stallion Motors Limited has announced a price offer of N7.9m for its new Changan CS35 entry-level sport utility vehicle to cater for a growing demand for vehicles in the compact SUV market segment.  The bargain, according to the company, is aimed at assuaging disillusioned auto buffs that couldn’t contend with ...

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Kia Seals New UEFA Europa League Sponsorship Deal

Kia Motors, Monday, sealed a new partnership deal as it was named as a new Official Partner of the UEFA Europa League. The three-year sponsorship agreement, which commences in time for the 2018/19 season, will run through to the UEFA Europa League final in 2021. The UEFA Europa League is ...

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Dara Khosrowshashi is Uber’s new CEO

Uber now has a new CEO. Dara Khosrowshashi, the chief executive of Expedia, has been chosen to lead the company, according to a report this Monday by Financial Times, quoting sources close to the company. His choice by the eight-man Board of the company, according to the report,  has now ...

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Day FRSC Attracted Global Attention on Road Safety

By Sani Abdullahi When the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) was established about 29 years ago, some of the distinctive features introduced into the operations of the Corps by the founding fathers were the centrality of public enlightenment programme into its crash reduction strategies and civility, which serves as the ...

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Nigerian Diaspora to Launch Campaign against Irregular Migration in Lagos

An information campaign to raise public awareness of the dangers of irregular migration will kick off at the Centre for Management Development (CMD) in Lagos on September 12.  Initiated by African-German Information Center (AGIC), Hamburg, and The African Courier Verlag, Berlin, with the support of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Foreign ...

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Heritage Bank: Our MD, Others Not Involved in N13billion Fraud

A top Nigerian bank, Heritage Bank, said on Sunday that its Managing Director, Ifie Sekibo, and other staff of the banks are not involved in any fraud and therefore not under any investigation by the country’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), as alleged in a report ...

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Nigeria’s FRSC, an Inspiration to Other African Countries – UN

The United Nations (UN) has described the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) as an inspiration to other African countries and called on them to emulate the Nigeria’s example in dealing with the menace of road traffic crashes in the continent. The UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Road Safety, Mr. Jean ...

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Exporter of the Year Merit Awards for Ford Struandale Engine Plant

   The Ford Struandale Engine Plant in Port Elizabeth has continued to be recognized as one of the Eastern Cape’s region’s top exporters, having scooped two top awards at the 2017 Exporter of the Year Awards hosted recently by a group, Exporters Eastern Cape (previously known as Exporters Club South ...

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Honda Marks 50th anniversary of its Italian Grand Prix Victory with the RA300 Sept. 3

Honda said it would hold a demonstration run of the Honda RA300 on race day of the 2017 FIA Formula One (F1) World Championship Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza (Monza Circuit) on September 3, 2017. This, according to Honda Motorsports, is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of ...

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Electric Cars to Hit Nigerian Roads in 2018

… Local Firm Partners China’s BYD on EV Assembly Plant Nigeria appears ready to join the Electric Vehicle (EV) evolution spreading around the world by next year. A local firm, Nigus Enfinity, promised on Friday to  introduce Electric Vehicles (EVs) into the local automobile market from 2018, saying it also ...

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