Category: West Africa
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Nigeria:Arik Air resumes services, denies unpaid fuel bills
Nigeria’s largest airline Arik Air said Wednesday it had resumed services after a 24-hour suspension that stranded thousands of passengers across Africa. The carrier also denied speculation that it had not paid its fuel bills. It had earlier said Tuesday’s disruption was linked to a delay in getting insurance renewal during the long weekend holidays…
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Nigeria: Unity Bank Sacks 215 Workers in Repositioning Strategy
Unity Bank Plc, yesterday sacked not less than 215 of its employees as part of its reengineering strategy for greater performance. According to information gathered from sources close to the bank, the workers were sacked for their inability to cope with the new ideas and strategy of the institution. The bank is said to have…
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Nigeria’s largest airline temporarily suspends operations
Arik Air, Nigeria’s largest airline, cancelled all of its flights on Tuesday in what it called a temporary disruption related to insurance renewal, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The company warned the disruption was likely to continue for the next few days as it awaited approve from national insurance commission NAICOM to renew…
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Nigeria: Petrol Price Hike – Ex-NNPC GMDs’ Position Generates More Controversy
A civil society organisation, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), has accused the body of former Group Managing Directors of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, of pursuing a selfish agenda in calling for a hike in price of petrol. They claimed the call was capable of ruining the country. In an…
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Nigeria: Cassava Growers Seek Compensation for Insured Farmlands Damage By Herdsmen
Nigeria Cassava Growers Association, NCGA, has appealed to the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, NAIC, to compensate farmers whose insured farmlands were destroyed by herdsmen in various states. President of the association, Pastor Segun Adewumi, made the appeal in an interview in Lagos, yesterday. Adewumi lamented that most of the destroyed farmlands were set up with…
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Senegal:Sheep business boosted by mobile money
Sheep are a hot commodity in Senegal leading up to the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, when each family traditionally slaughters a ram for a feast that has become a boomtime for traders who often travel hundreds of miles to sell their livestock. It is a tradition stretching back centuries, but these days paying for the…
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Nigerian watchdog closes Nokia-Alacatel’s local offices
Nigeria’s telecoms regulator has shut the offices of Nokia-Alcatel for operating in Africa’s largest economy without the necessary permit, the watchdog said on Friday. The Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC) spokesman Tony Ojobo said that the mobile telecoms equipment manufacturer had failed to obtain the 2 million naira ($6,349) licence required for the sale and installation…
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Ivory Coast cracks down on cocoa contracts
Ivory Coast’s cocoa marketing board has given exporters six days to supply documentation for export contracts, including proof of a counterparty, or they will be cancelled and resold, the Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) wrote in a memorandum seen on Friday. The measure, aimed at stamping out speculation in the top grower’s forward sales system,…
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Nigeria: Cocoa Institute Reinstates 91 Sacked Workers After Buhari’s Intervention
Ninety one workers sacked in 2013 by the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, resumed work on Thursday. Welcoming the workers, Acting Executive Director of the institute, Abiodun Okelana, said their reinstatement was ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari after a thorough investigation by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture. She assured them that the institute would…
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Nigeria: Aviation Unions Besiege Aero Contractors Over Indefinite Leave Handed 1,400 Workers
Aviation unions on Thursday besieged the head office of Aero Contractors Airline at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, a day after the embattled airline announced the suspension of flight operations and placed workers on an indefinite leave. Benjamin Okewu, the president, Air Traffic Services Senior Staff Association, told journalists on Thursday that the unions…