Seven-up Bottling company started business in Nigeria in 1960 as a limited liability company. The Seven-Up bottling company Plc is one of the largest independent manufacturer and distributor of well-known and widely consumed brands of soft drinks in Nigeria from nine manufacturing plants. A Lebanese Mohammed El-Khalil who came to Nigeria in 1926 founded the […]
Nigerian legal system is a relic of the century-old British imperialism that brought about the imposition of alien English legal system on our traditional legal structures and institutions. Our organic norms and values were thus largely displaced. Lagos was created a British colony in 1862. In that same year, a court was established there, and […]
Here is the updated list of members of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, they constitute Nigeria’s 8th House of Representatives, They are grouped along side their party and constituency according to the alphabetic listing of their states . Member Party State Constituency Ossy Prestige APGA Abia State Aba North/South Uko Ndokwe Nkole PDP Abia State […]
The Official Website of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Link : http://www.nlcng.org/ Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Contact: Nigeria Labour Congress Headquarters Plot 829/821, Labour House, Central Business District, Abuja – Nigeria. Telephone: + 234-9-6276042, Fax: +234-9-6274342 LAGOS OFFICE: 29, Olajuwon Street, off Ojulegba Road. P.O. Box 620, Yaba, Lagos – Nigeria. Telephone: 234-1-7743988, +234-1-5840288 Fax: 234-1-5840288 Email:gsec@nlcng.org
The Nigeria Labour Congress [NLC] was formally constituted as the only national federation of trade unions in the country in 1978. Before then, four labour centres existed. These are Nigeria Trade Union Congress [NTUC], Labour Unity Front [LUF], United Labour Congress [ULC] and Nigeria Workers Council [NWC]. The emergence of the NLC ended decades of […]
Oil was discovered in Nigeria in 1956 at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta after half a century of exploration. The discovery was made by Shell-BP, at the time the sole concessionaire. Nigeria joined the ranks of oil producers in 1958 when its first oil field came on stream producing 5,100 bpd. After 1960, exploration rights […]
Flora Louise Shaw, DBE (19 December 1852 – 25 January 1929), a British journalist and writer is credited with having coined the name “Nigeria”. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was coined in the late 19th century by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later married Lord […]