Economy

Buyers Heave Sigh of Relief as Prices of Consumables Drop Gradually

By Web News March 6, 2021 20 0

Buyers of food items in Ibadan are beginning to heave a sigh of relief over the sloppy drop in the prices of food stuffs at various markets across the metropolis. Our correspondent, Dayo Adu who observed commercial activities at Bodija Market reports that perishables like pepper, tomatoes and onions are now affordable while prices of […]Read More...

Economy

Osun Govt Boosts SMEs With 100M Seed Loans

By Web News March 5, 2021 39 0

Osun State governor, Mr Gboyega Oyetola says his administration has adopted a proactive strategy to stimulate the economy of the state in the face of Coronavirus pandemic. Governor Oyetola stated this in Osogbo while presenting cash as seed loans to two thousand successful trainees of Skills Upgrade and Entrepreneurship Training Programme. He said the Skills […]Read More...

Economy

FG Distributes Cash Grant, Relief Materials In Oyo State

By Web News March 4, 2021 163 0

Rural women in Oyo state as well as victims of Shasha market crises have been given cash grant and relief materials to boost their business and social life. The event which was flagged-off at the Western Building, State Secretariat, in Ibadan witnessed a large turnout of physically challenged, persons with special needs, people living with […]Read More...

Economy

[BREAKING] Foodstuffs: Northern Traders Agree To Resume Supplies To South

By Web News March 3, 2021 716 Post a comment

After about six days, the Leadership of Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria, on Wednesday, agreed to resume the movement of food supplies from the northern part of the country to the southern region. It was gathered that the agreement was reached when the […]Read More...

Economy

Food Blockade: Food Prices Fall In North, Farmers, Traders Run At Loss

By Web News March 3, 2021 1200 0

Farmers and traders in Kano are lamenting as farm produce, which can’t be sent to the South due to the ongoing strike by sellers of cows and foodstuff, are now being sold at the North at ridiculously low prices. In a video shared by Daily Trust, the farmers and marketers at the Gun-Dutse onion market, […]Read More...

Economy

COVID-19: Ekiti Govt. Ends Work At Home Order

By Web News March 2, 2021 67 0

Ekiti State government has directed workers on grade level 02-12 to resume  to their various offices next week  Monday. To curtail the spread of COVID-19 Pandemic, the State Government in January 2021 directed that only officers on Grade Levels 13 and above should continue working in the office while officers on GL.02 to 12 were […]Read More...

Economy

Protests Rock Shoprite Supermarkets Over Change Of Management

By Web News March 2, 2021 76 0

Some staffs of a Multinational Supermarket in Ibadan, Shoprite, have staged a peaceful protest over the decision of the management to handover the affairs of the shop to a new company without arrangement for staff.  While Some of them carried placards with different inscription such as “5-10 years without promotion and you want to abandon us” “No Read More...

Economy

Business Activities Pick up as Sasa Market Reopens

By Web News February 24, 2021 79 0

Following the re-opening of Sasa market, business activities have resumed though at a lower ebb. Radio Nigeria correspondent, who visited the market, sighted few traders and customers who came to purchase food items.   Security agents were equally seen patrolling the market to ensure peace and order. Two traders who sell pepper, Alhaji Ibraheem Hammed […]Read More...

Economy

We will Deliver Our Mandate of Lifting 100 Million Nigerians Out Of Poverty- PMB

By Web News February 23, 2021 50 0

President Muhammadu Buhari says the administration’s ambitious policy of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty did not come by accident or “something we just bumped into,” but a deliberate one that will be pursued with remarkable grit and determination. Speaking on Tuesday at a meeting with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), which was […]Read More...

Economy

Gov. Makinde Orders Re-opening of Shasa Market

By Web News February 23, 2021 70 0

Oyo state Governor Seyi Makinde has ordered the immediate reopening of Shasha market in Akinyele local government area of Oyo State earlier closed following clashes between indigenes and settlers. He gave the order during a peace parley between the Seriki Shasha, Alhaji Haruna Maiyasin and Baale Shasha Community, Amusa Ajani and other stakeholders at the […]Read More...