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The Enugu State Government on Thursday formally took over the two properties of the Nigerian Coal Corporation (NCC) purchased from the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).
The two properties are the headquarters of the corporation located on Okpara Avenue and the Colliery Hospital on New Market

Nigeria’s Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, has confirmed that it would privatise the four refineries in the country next year.
Chigbo Anichebe, the Bureau’s Head, Public Communications, said that the refineries’ privatisation was part of the ongoing oil sector’s reforms.
Last week, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke,

Ogun State’s Governor Ibikunle Amosun

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, presented an appropriation bill of N210.2billion for the 2014 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly.
The budget, which he tagged ‘Budget of consolidation’, is slightly lower than the 2013 budget which was N211.79billion.
Governor Amosun

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will leave Abuja early Wednesday for London where he is scheduled to preside over a three-day meeting of Nigeria’s Honourary International Investors’ Council.
Issues on the agenda of the meeting include generating long-term affordable finance for Nigeria’s real sector, developing Nigeria’s private equity and venture capital

 
The Federal, States and Local Governments have shared N568.41 billion from the Federation Account for October, the Minister of State for Finance, Dr Yerima Ngama, said in Abuja yesterday.
 
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the amount shared in September was N45.92 billion higher than

The popularity of peer-to-peer services has recently switched from computer networks to people, with apps and websites allowing users to receive services such as accommodation and traffic tips or purchase items such as clothes, electronic devices and cars not from professional service providers and shops but from other users.
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