Views: Visits 5 …Flags off multi-billion dollar Petrochemical, fertilizer company …Attracts #5.7 billion aid for AKSUTH …Commissions 18.3km roads in Oron, Etinan, Onna LGA’s …Oron-Calabar ferry service to resume soon In fulfilment of his campaign promise to change the narrative of the state from a civil service state to an industrial hub within the Gulf of Guinea, Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel on Wednesday, performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the multi-billion dollar Petrochemical and fertilizer company, Sterling Petro-Chemicals and Fertilizer Production Factory, in Eastern Obolo LGA. The project is between the Akwa Ibom State Government and SPFL Developers for the purpose of setting up the Petrochemical and Fertilizer Production Factory, in line with the Federal Government National Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP).
A building in Marquette Heights vacant for 15 years has a new occupant: Korner Island.
Kona Ice of Peoria has been operating shaved-ice trucks in the area for the past five years. According to owner Robin Durdel, the decision to expand operations to a stationary building came as a result of community feedback.
“The more we came with our trucks to Marquette Heights, the more we realized there isn’t really anything there for its residents,” said Durdel. “We would have multiple people come by and ask us, ‘Hey, why don’t you put up a shop here?’
Durdel added that she had been looking at a site in Creve Coeur along Illinois Route 29. In the end, however, she found that the building in Marquette Heights formerly a Freedom Oil gas station could better accommodate large trucks.
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The recent announcement by Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, of a $1.4 billion agricultural investment in addition to the growing list of industrial establishments currently in operation should convince cynics and critics that his plan of making the oil-rich, South South state Nigeria’s industrial hub is neither a gimmick nor a pipe dream. There is evidence on the ground to encourage the belief that the announcement is not a political statement that was designed to seek support for an ambition (he wasn’t on a soap box).
In what was akin to letting the cat out of the bag, the governor told an ecstatic audience at the official opening of the Tropicana Shopping Mall in Uyo, the state capital, that the investment, which would span two countries, would change Nigeria’s agricultural fortune – one that would put smiles on the faces of Akwa Ibomites and make them walk tall with their heads held high.
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Valparaiso-based Family Express is expanding across Indiana again.
The convenience store chain acquired six Freedom Oil gas stations in Kosciusko and Marshall counties, as well as a convenience store in McCordsville in central Indiana in a separate purchase. The terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Leesburg-based Freedom Oil had run the gas stations near Warsaw, the orthopedic capital of the world, for nearly two decades. The company started in July 2002 after the Cobb family bought four locations from Gast Fuel and Oil.
âWhen our family came to Warsaw in 2002 to purchase four gas stations, I couldnât have imagined how we would have not only turned them into the new, updated stores they are now, but how this community would have welcomed our business and our family in such an inviting and caring way,â said Greg Cobb, owner of Freedom Oil, LLC. âThough we may be stepping away from the convenience store business, we have made Warsaw our home and will remain act