Tag: Benue State

Market vendors to receive VAT exemptions under FIRS-MATAN initiative
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Fire guts Benue market, destroys properties worth millions

A fire outbreak in the early hours of Monday destroyed properties worth millions of naira at the Wurukum Rice Mill Market in Makurdi, near the River Benue bridge. Firefighters arrived swiftly and prevented the fire from spreading to other parts of the market. However, several shops were affected, with goods such as processed and unprocessed […]

Benue ethanol company establishes pollution treatment facility
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Benue ethanol company establishes pollution treatment facility

A cutting-edge Effluent Treatment Plant has been erected by Pure Biotech Company Limited, an ethanol company, to stop wastewater contamination of the Benue River from happening again. The News Agency of Nigeria stated that this was said by the company’s manager of corporate communications and public relations, Mr. Stephen Numbeve, in an interview. He claimed that the organization […]

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom
Business

May Day: Benue workers demand payment of outstanding wages

The chairman of the Benue Nigeria Labour Congress, Terungwa Igbe, requested that the state government pay all back wages and pensions owed to employees. The Punch reported that Igbe, who bemoaned the state’s workers’ condition, made the plea at the state secretariat along Otukpo road rather than IBB square, where employees usually spend May Day. […]