Tinubu Meets Emefiele, Kyari Over Fuel Scarcity
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday met with the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele and the Group Chief Executive Officer, of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Mr. Mele Kyari at the Presidential Villa,…
Oyo NDE Trains Beneficiaries On How To Run Successful Enterprise
Determined to effectively equip unemployed persons with vital skills that would lead to job creation and poverty reduction in the country, the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, has organised a sensitization training for her recent loans beneficiaries which comprises of…
CBN Increases Interest Rate For 3rd Consecutive Time
For the third consecutive time Nigeria’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has raised the interest rate from 18 percent to 18.5 percent. The CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, announced the decision on Wednesday after a meeting of the…
CNG States Position On Reported Plots Against May 29 Handover, Wants Emefiele, Other Critical Government Officials Stopped From Fleeing Nigeria
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has said that it is, as usual, worried by “the growing uncertainties created by certain destabilizing forces in the country surrounding the May 2029 transition to a new administration elected through the democratic poll…
N451m For 12 Board Members’ Aides As Senate Passes N876bn NDDC 2023 Budget
Twelve board members of the commission are to get the sum of N451 million as their entitlement for the year, while N576 million was earmarked for running of office of the chairman of the commission, Lauretta Onochie as the Nigerian…
TCN Boss Bags Best Environmental Leadership Award
Environment Reporters Association of Nigeria (ERAN) has bestowed the Best Environmental Leadership Award 2023 in Nigeria on the Managing Director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Engr. Sule Abdulaziz. Announcing this in Abuja on Wednesday, President ofThe Environment Reporters Association…
Rural Electrification: 1MW Zawaciki Interconnected Mini-grid Nearing Completion — REA
The Nigeria Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has revealed that a 1MW interconnected mini-grid is nearing completion in Zawaciki community of Kano State, North West of Nigeria. The agency disclosed this in a social media post on Thursday. Increasingly, the Federal…
Free Trade Zones Scheme Generates N35.1bn Customs Duty in 2021 – NEPZA
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), says that the Free Trade Zones (FTZs) Scheme generated a total of N35.1 billion for government as Customs Duty in 2021. The authority said the sum of N408.3 million was also remitted as…
Public Service Recognition A Morale Booster For Us – FIRS Boss
The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami, has stated that his recognition by the LEADERSHIP Awards as the Newspaper’s Public Service Person of the Year 2022 is a morale booster for the Service to do…
Humanitarian Affairs Ministry Loses Director Special Needs
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has been thrown into mourning following the death of its only female Director , Mrs Nkechi Onwukwe. The Minister, Sadiya Umar Farouq expressed shock at her sudden demise when she…
