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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said residents of Osun, Abia and Benue paid the highest average price for purchase of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol in January. The NBS stated this in “Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch for January 2018’’ posted on its website. The bureau stated that in Osun, petrol was sold for N228.89 ...

The Deputy Governor of Benue State, Benson Obounu, has said that the country’s economy would improve, if stakeholders encouraged engineers to produce home-made commodities. He told journalists, in Abuja, on Friday, after the investiture of the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers, that the country had the potential, including manpower, to develop a stronger economy. Obounu insisted that emphasis should be ...

Benue Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said that his administration was ready to establish small and medium-scale enterprises development agency to fast track skills acquisition among youths in the state. He disclosed this on Friday in Makurdi at the closing ceremony of the training of 500 graduands by the National Industrial Skills Development Programme (NISDP). Ortom noted that it was his ...

Benue Governor, Samuel Ortom has advised the people, especially youths, to venture into commercial activities to be self-reliant as white collar jobs were difficult to come by. Ortom gave the advice on Monday in Makurdi while inaugurating Benysta Microfinance Bank, built by a front line politician in the state, Asema Achado. “Since white collar jobs were not forthcoming, commerce and ...