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Investegate announcements from Lekoil Limited, Award of Options

HighLife Lekoil Limited, one of the top oil and gas exploration and production companies in Nigeria and West Africa, has emerged as one of the most talked-about companies in the last 72 hours. Their sudden ‘popularity’ follows the resignation of the company’s Chairman, Michael Ajukwu, from the chairmanship position. The action has tongues wagging because Ajukwu was appointed just three months ago. It is not often that companies like Lekoil trend on social media. The recent trend has even ...

AIM WINNERS & LOSERS: Warpaint tops outlook; Avactas Covid test works Tue, 20th Apr 2021 11:35 (Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM in London on Tuesday. AIM - WINNERS Warpaint London, up 15% at 124.00 pence, 12-month range 35p-124p. The UK-based cosmetics retailer says trading in the second half of 2020 was stronger than previously anticipated and improved trading has continued to be experienced in the first quarter of 2021. Sales for the first thre...

EXECUTIVE CHANGES: James Fisher names new CFO; Lekoil loses new chair Tue, 20th Apr 2021 15:36 (Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of London-listed company director and manager changes announced on Tuesday and not separately reported by Alliance News: James Fisher & Sons PLC - Barrow In Furness, Cumbria-based marine services - Hires Duncan Kennedy as chief financial officer and executive director, starting May 4. Kennedy replaces Stuart Kilpatrick, who as previously announced will ste...

20 April 2021 | 14:47pm StockMarketWire.com - Oil and gas exploration and production company Lekoil announced that chairman Michael Ajukwu has made the decision to step down, while non-executive director Mark Simmonds has brought forward his resignation. Ajukwu, who assumed the position of chairman of the board in January 2021, has resigned with effect from 21 April 2021, with Anthony Hawkins to act as interim chairman until a new chairman is appointed by the board of directors. In announcing h...

/ Toshimi Abe-Janiga, Palm Beach Countys Teacher of the Year, teaches English, Black history, and Holocaust studies at Riviera Beach Preparatory and Achievement Academy. Palm Beach County’s Teacher of the Year says Holocaust education and Black history help broaden her students perspective about the world. For the past 14 years, Toshimi Abe-Janiga — who is originally from Japan — has taught English, Black history, and Holocaust studies to predominately Black students at Riviera Beach Pr...

New research: unlocking a triple-win for UK ports and shipping New research highlights that Government support for “shore-power” is essential to unlock a triple-win of cleaner air, lower climate pollution, and smart 21st century electricity grids in UK ports. Shore-power, the provision of electricity for ships while in dock so they don’t need to use their diesel engines, is taking off in Europe, but is held back in the UK by high electricity taxes and a lack of Government support. Governm...

A new WTO boss who understands Africa is a good thing for the global economy The headquarters of the World Trade Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland. PHOTO: WTO By Tue Feb 16 2021 The impasse over who will become the next director-general of the WTO has at last come to a conclusion. Following South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee’s withdrawal from the selection process, the path is now clear for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a widely respected former Nigerian finance minister, to become the first wo...

Post-Brexit Border Hurdles: UK May Lose Businesses, Value Chains if Fails to Act Fast, Academic Says Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202102091082021522-post-brexit-border-hurdles-uk-may-lose-businesses-value-chains-if-fails-to-act-fast-academic-says/ The UK government is not ready to respond to inquiries by British exporters and business lobbies over significant issues at the borders following Brexit, says economist Dr Sheikh Selim, suggesting that Britons should brac...

New analysis by Declassified UK has discovered the striking extent to which former senior public officials often find lucrative employment in oil, gas and mining companies after they leave office. Dozens of former secretaries of state, ministers, heads of intelligence agencies, ambassadors and chiefs of the British military take advantage of a revolving door that allows them to work for corporations in a sector whose interests some have promoted while in office. Former secretaries of state Sir...