The quest for food security is an onerous task amid COVID-19, climate change, harsh operating environment and the likes. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and other partners were on field trips recently to have first-hand information on how its GIZ-funded cassava and maize value chain project has...
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By Benjamin Orisemeke, Abuja – The Federal Government’s fiscal deficit hits a whopping N2.23 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria economic report for the last quarter of 2021. The report said the 12 per cent contraction in fiscal deficit followed a...
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, struck a deal Monday to buy Twitter for $44 billion, capping a saga complete with hostile takeover threats before delivering him personal control of one of the most influential social media platforms on the planet. Twitter famously served as a megaphone for former...
The Center for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has advised the Federal Government to expend the N4 trillion for petroleum on productive sectors. Dr Muda Yusuf, Chief Executive Officer CPPE, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday,...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) started its activities for the week with a move by stakeholders to begin the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) in the upstream sector of the nation’s oil and gas industry. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva...
y MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), and the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, have promised to continue to drive policy initiatives that promote investment in infrastructure in the Nigerian telecom industry...
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has offered three new Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) bonds valued at N225 billion for subscription through auction in April. They are a N75 billion FGN bond at 13.5 per cent interest rate, due in March 2025 (10 year re-opening) and a N75 billion...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The Management of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has been commended for its superlative regulatory activities, The commendation came from key members of the top echelon of the Management of ipNX, a licensee, who were at the Commission on Friday for a courtesy visit....
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday disclosed in its report that the average retail price of cooking gas increased by 83.62 per cent from N2057.71 in March 2021. The March 2022 report also revealed the average price for refilling a 5kg Cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking...
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) price for basket of 13 crude oil samples stood at $108.81 per barrel as at Thursday, April 21. This is compared with $107.97 per barrel of the previous Wednesday, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria...
Residents of a community in Ondo state were intrigued to see a weird looking car in their area and gathered around it to watch with keen interest. The weird whip called an aeroplane car was built by a Nigerian man and was being driven to Akure from Abuja when...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – For Nigeria to continue to be relevant as a major player in the global oil and gas industry, it must come up with innovative ways of exploiting and exploring its abundant oil and gas. The minister of Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva stated this on...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says the bank will help African countries reduce the sharp increase in fertiliser prices by providing support to the government and farmers. Dr Martin Fregene, the Director, Agriculture and Agro-Industry of the bank, said this at a virtual news conference on Wednesday in preparation...
Google on Tuesday announced its first Product Development Centre in Africa to help create transformative products and services for people in Africa and around the world. The Vice President of the product at Google, Ms Susan Frey, said at a Virtual Media Round Table that Google would also be...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) started its activities for the week with a tour of the Port Harcourt Refinery, to ascertain the level of ongoing rehabilitation of the plant. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, and members of Board of Directors, NNPC...
Some consumers have expressed concern over the continuous hike in prices of foodstuffs and other items in the country. The citizens who spoke in a survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kpirikpiri and Margaret Umahi International Markets, revealed that prices of food items are skyrocketing,...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Saturday that the nation’s inflation rate increased to 15. 92 per cent in March 2022. According to a report released by NBS in March 2022 the Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures inflation increased to 15.92 percent on year-on-year. “This is...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has emphasised that telecommunications consumers in Nigeria have a major role to play in complementing efforts being put in place to ensure effective protection of telecommunications infrastructure. This is important to sustain and improve on the quality of service delivery by the service providers....
The four oil marketers/importers initially fingered by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as being responsible for the importation of the Off-Spec fuel have been exonerated by the House Committee on Petroleum Downstream. The exonerated companies include Duke Oil, MRS Oil and Gas, Oando Oil and Emadeb consortium (Hyde,...
Twitter on Thursday confirmed that the world’s richest man, Elon Musk is offering to buy it’s company for a staggering $43.4 billion. Twitter gave the confirmation in a statement were it pledged that its management will carefully review the proposal. “The Twitter Board of Directors will carefully review the...