GENERAL NEWS (NIGERIA)

All appears set for Geely to finally take its pride of place in the highly competitive Nigerian automobile market with its stylish and sporty passenger cars and compact Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) after intense preparations that lasted over a year. Already, pre-sale orders have opened and local representatives of Geely, ...

Transit Support Services Limited (TSSL) has launched the  SHACMAN fire trucks into the Nigerian market as additions to the SHACMAN Nigeria range of products in the local market. Other products in the range include SHACMAN tractor heads, dump/tipper trucks, mixer and lorry trucks such as SHACMAN F2000 and L3000 with an ...

  Financial inclusion and provision of sustainable energy is at a turning point in Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria. With a population of over 200 million, about 50 per cent of the total population live in rural areas, and only 39 per cent of those living in rural communities have access ...

In what has been described as an expression of confidence in locally-assembled vehicles, the Imo State Government has, again, boosted the operations of its security outfit, Operation Search & Flush, with another batch of 100 units of Innoson  patrol vehicles produced at the Nnewi assembly plant of the Nigerian indigenous ...

Infosim® GmbH & Co. KG and MTN Group, along with its Operating Company (OpCos) MTN-Nigeria Communications PLC, have agreed to use StableNet® in their efforts towards achieving improved network visibility and automated management functionalities . StableNet® is  a network management platform that is able to manage multiple vendors and technologies from ...

Heritage Bank is set to unlock the over N344trillion market worth of gold investible instruments in the solid minerals sector with the concluded plans of being listed on the Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange (LCFE). This is one of the gains of the bank’s valuable private sector collaboration with Dukia Gold ...

Coscharis Motors Plc, a subsidiary of Coscharis Group, has been commended for its commitment to developing local content at its local assembly plant located at the Lagos head office of the company. The leading Nigerian auto dealership was commended by all the Heads of Departments (HODs) from the Faculty of Engineering, University of ...

Heritage Bank in partnership with the Road Transport Employee’s Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) has launched the Travelers’ Accident Insurance Scheme (TAIS) to assist road accident victims across the country.The scheme, launched last Friday, aims to address deaths associated with inability of travelers involved in accident to offset hospital bills. The ...

New millionaires have emerged from the April draw of Heritage Bank’s YNSPYRE, CREAM Platform’s draw as the top money lender continues to fulfill its promises to support the Nigerian Creative Industry. The YNSPYRE account holders who subscribed to the platform by dialing *745*463# on all networks won over N12million during the ...

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) appears set to rid the country of substandard steel products by enforcing all the regulations guiding the industry.  Director-General of SON, Mr Farouk Salim, gave the indication , Tuesday , when he met in Asaba, the Delta State capital, with steel manufacturers and dealers in ...