Tag: Commercial activities

“Kidnappers, one chance criminals on rampage again in Lagos”, Commuters raise alarm

Aminu Imam

Commuters have raised an alarm over the increasing rate of kidnapping and the activities of one chance criminals across Nigeria’s commercial capital city of Lagos. One Chance is the colloquial expression for a type of robbery staged by criminals using commercial vehicles with colluding passengers and bus conductors, whereby the conductor convinces unsuspecting passenger and potential victims that only one space is left on the bus. The passenger is then taken away from where they got in the vehicle, robbed, and pushed out of the vehicle without stopping. According to…

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Businesses dying over high cost of diesel – Nsukka Chamber of Commerce cry out

Aminu Imam

The Nsukka Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, (NCCIMA), says agriculture businesses in the area are dying over the increased cost of diesel. The Director-General of the chamber, Dan Ochi, disclosed this yesterday, in an interview with newsmen in Enugu. Ochi, who is also the Managing Director, Global Farms, said the worst affected were the tomatoes and pepper production businesses that depended on diesel for irrigation purposes. We have stopped the production of our tomatoes and pepper because we can no longer run our irrigation machines at the current…

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