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Poor Power Supply: Niger Assembly To Grill AEDC Regional Manager
Amid worsening electricity supply to power Nigeria’s ailing economy, the Niger State House of Assembly is set to grill the regional manager, Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC). The House in exercise of its oversight powers, summoned the senior member of…
IWD: Unity Bank Partners SkillPaddy to Train 1,000 Female Software Engineers
Nigerian lender, Unity Bank Plc is partnering with SkillPaddy in its “Count Her In” tech Programme focused on empowering no fewer than 1000 female beneficiaries in Software Engineering Training. The IT skill development and empowerment initiative is intended to bridge…
EFCC Chair, Olukoyede, Charges Banks’ CEOs to Play by the Rules in Fight Against Corruption
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Ola Olukoyede has called on Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of banks across the country to always abide by extant regulations and rules in their practices as effective means…
Lagos Office: Finally, Date Set For Redeployed 1,500 CBN Staff Resume
No fewer than 1,500 redeployed members of staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will on Friday, February 3, 2024, resume at Lagos office of the apex bank. According to a report by The PUNCH, quoting a CBN source,…
OPPO and Counterpoint unveil in-depth industry report on the adoption and tech advances of telephoto lenses in smartphones
The report looks into the rising popularity of telephoto lens-equipped smartphones and the reasons behind it OPPO leads the trends and continues to bring the technology from flagship to mass-market models January 2024 – A new report by market research…
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Customs Suspends 25% Penalty on Improperly Imported Vehicles
Amid economic hardship occasioned by high cost of living in Nigeria and to encourage compliance, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) at the weekend announced that the federal government has approved the suspension of the 25 percent penalty previously imposed in…
TCN Expands Regional Capacity, Increases Capacity of Port Harcourt Main Substation with 100MVA Transformer
In a bid to boosts regional capacity, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has commissioned a 100MVA 132/33kV power transformer at its Port Harcourt Main Substation, enhancing the bulk transmission capability of the substation by 80MW. This initiative, which is…
Minister Urges Mineral-rich African Countries To Use Reserves As Equity To Avoid Impoverishing Debt Trap
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Oladele Alake has urged mineral- rich African countries to use the proven mineral reserves of their countries as equity in joint ventures instead of taking loans that worsen the plight of their people….
TCN Suffers Another System Sabotage, Shiroro-Katampe Transmission Line Vandalised
Less than two weeks after its Tower 70 along its 330kV Gwagwalade – Katampe Transmission line was vandalised, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has suffered yet another vandalism of its transmission line. This time, the company reported that one…
TCN Explains Outages in FCT Despite Capacity To Supply Adequate Power
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has stated that the current power supply situation in Abuja is not attributable to inadequate transmission capacity resulting from the Gwagwalada tower vandalism incident of 26th February, 2024. The transmission company in a statement…
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Enugu’s Land Grabbing Crisis: NGIJ Investigation Unveils Exploitative Woes As “Captain” Accused of Using Soldiers For Land Grabbing Linked To Lagbaja Family
By NGIJ Team In recent years, Nigeria has been grappling with a pressing issue known as land grabbing, where land rights are violated and increasingly stripped away from local communities and vulnerable individuals. This contentious practice, often fuelled by powerful…
President Tinubu Directs Mandatory Recitation Of National Pledge After National Anthem At Official Functions
To ensure absolute respect for the national symbols, strengthen allegiance and fidelity to country, and to preserve Nigeria’s ethos and defining character, President Bola Tinubu has directed the mandatory recitation of the National Pledge after the National Anthem at every…
Save Enugu Group Sends SOS To Tinubu, Mbah, Over Misuse Of Soldiers In Enugu
Worried by the harassment and intimidation of citizens in the state over land matters, a frontline pressure group and human rights advocate, the Save Enugu Group (SEG), has sent a Save-Our-Souls (SOS) alert to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the…
Ministers, Ambassadors Won’t Be Spared As Illegal Structures Will Go Down – Wike Fumes on Resumption Of Duties As FCT Minister
Newly-inaugurated Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Wike, has on assumption of office on Monday warned those distorting the master plan of the FCT to expect their properties to “go down”. The immediate past Rivers State Governor…
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Dan Agundi Power Transformers’ Fire Incident: TCN Restores Power Affected Areas in Kano
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has confirmed that on Sunday it restored power supply to some of the areas taking supply from the transformers affected by the Dan Agundi Substation fire incident in Kano, adding that full restoration for…
Declare State Of Emergency in Industrial Sector – Kallah Urges Tinubu
The Katsina State Coordinator of the Jagaban Vision Movement, Ibrahim Musa Kallah, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (PBAT) to declared a state of emergency in the nation’s industrial sector. Kallah, who spoke with our correspondent at the weekend,…
NDE Commissions Garri Processing Plant In Oyo
Determined to create employment and stimulate the local economy, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has assured that it will continue pursue laudable schemes aimed at generating employment for teeming unemployed persons in the country. Speaking at the official commissioning…
VP Launches Assembled In Nigeria Electric Car
Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima has launched an assembled and designed in Nigeria, electric car. This is after the National Economic Council, NEC backed the move by the National Automotive Design and Development Council, NADDC, to begin mass production of…
Electric Car Sales Gain Pace Despite Hurdles
The electrification of the car industry is gathering pace, particularly in Europe, where the sale of new cars running on petrol and diesel will end in 2035. But challenges remain around their production, affordability and whether enough infrastructure can be…
Oil And Gas
Transfer of Crude Oil Proceeds To CBN Is the Way To Go – CNPP Tells Tinubu
Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has described the speculated directive by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, transferring revenue from crude oil sales to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as the way to go. Since on Monday, there has been…
Diligence, Result, Reward: A Diary of Kyari’s Midas Touch At NNPCL – Skymark Energy and Power Ltd
If the names of technocrats, pace setters, track record performers and people of integrity, diligence and transparency whose midas touch in the country’s social political and economic firmaments are to be written for record purpose, the name of the Group…
Kyari’s Reappointment: Skymark Energy and Power chairman Lauds Tinubu
…Urges NNPC GCEO To Keep Walking the Talk The Chairman of Skymark Energy and Power, Alhaji Muhammad Saleh Hassan, has hailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his reappointment of the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigeria National Petroleum…
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PRNigeria’s Fact Check Proves Ajuri Ngelale Blundered in Saying Zubaida Umar is First Female DG of NEMA
A fact check by PRNigeria has proven that Presidential Spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, exhibited embarrassing gaffe when he claimed that the newly appointed Director-General (DG) of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs Zubaida Umar, was the first female DG…
Dan Agundi Power Transformers’ Fire Incident: TCN Restores Power Affected Areas in Kano
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has confirmed that on Sunday it restored power supply to some of the areas taking supply from the transformers affected by the Dan Agundi Substation fire incident in Kano, adding that full restoration for…
Tinubu Appoints New AMCON Management Team
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of a new management team for the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), pending their confirmation by the Nigerian Senate. The development was confirmed in a statement signed by a Presidential Spokesperson, 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟…
Kemi Nanna Nandap Named New Immigration Comptroller-General
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of Kemi Nanna Nandap, a Deputy Comptroller-General (DCG) as the Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service. Chief Ajuri Ngelale Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), who announced the appointment…
Politics
Valedictory Speech By The National President Of The Association Of Local Governments Of Nigeria (ALGON) – Hon. Alabi Kolade David
Here is the full text of the Valedictory Speech by the immediate past National President of the Association Of Local Governments Of Nigeria (ALGON), Hon. Alabi Kolade David, marking the end of his tenure in office: Good evening Honourable Colleagues,…
Breaking News ALGON Elects Hon Aminu Mu’azu Maifata As Its New National President
Chairman of Lafia Local Government Council of Nasarawa State, Hon. Maifata Aminu Mu’azu has emerged as the National President of the Association of Local Governments Nigeria (ALGON). He is the chairman of ALGON, Nasarawa State Chapter. He takes over from…
Enugu North Monarch Commends Governor Mbah On Assent On Bill to Establish Teaching Hospital, Hail House of Assembly
A traditional ruler in Enugu North Senatorial District of Enugu State, His Royal Majesty (HRM), Eze-Igwe Willy Ezugwu, has hailed Governor Peter Mbah for signing the Enugu State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS) Teaching Hospital Bill 2024 into…
N3trn Budget Padding: CNPP, CSOs Issue 14 Days Ultimatum To Akpabio To Resign
Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) in conjunction with its over 75 allied civil society organisations under the umbrella of the National Civil Society Organisations Against Inept Leaders, have demanded the immediate resignation of the President of the Senate, Senator…
IWD: NTYTP Wants Governments To Address Challenges Facing Women in Nigeria
Young people-driven nongovernmental organisation (NGO) and a leadership development advocacy group, the Not Too Young To Perform (NTYTP), has urged the three tiers of government in the country “to pay special attention to modern day challenges facing women in Nigeria.”…
Investment
Valedictory Speech By The National President Of The Association Of Local Governments Of Nigeria (ALGON) – Hon. Alabi Kolade David
Here is the full text of the Valedictory Speech by the immediate past National President of the Association Of Local Governments Of Nigeria (ALGON), Hon. Alabi Kolade David, marking the end of his tenure in office: Good evening Honourable Colleagues,…
Breaking News ALGON Elects Hon Aminu Mu’azu Maifata As Its New National President
Chairman of Lafia Local Government Council of Nasarawa State, Hon. Maifata Aminu Mu’azu has emerged as the National President of the Association of Local Governments Nigeria (ALGON). He is the chairman of ALGON, Nasarawa State Chapter. He takes over from…
Enugu North Monarch Commends Governor Mbah On Assent On Bill to Establish Teaching Hospital, Hail House of Assembly
A traditional ruler in Enugu North Senatorial District of Enugu State, His Royal Majesty (HRM), Eze-Igwe Willy Ezugwu, has hailed Governor Peter Mbah for signing the Enugu State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS) Teaching Hospital Bill 2024 into…
Abduction: Doctors Raise Concerns over Insecurity in FCT, To Develop Guidelines
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) branch of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has raised concerns over the security situation in Nigeria’s Federal Capital, saying it was posing threat to the safety of doctors who are often on the roads at very…