In Nigeria, disability comes with a stigma. A report by the World Bank says “persons with disabilities in Nigeria persistently face stigma, discrimination, and barriers to accessing basic social services and economic opportunities”. Despite the […]
Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, on Tuesday unveiled two new companies created from the Nigerian Communications Satellite {NIGCOMSAT). They are: Satellite Infrastructure Company ( SIC) and the Satellite Broadband and Broadcasting Company […]
The authorities at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) have described as “false and inaccurate” the allegation of poor management of the former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, by the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari, who is also the Minister of Petroleum Resources, has directed the incorporation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. The directive is in consonance with Section 53(1) of the Petroleum Industry Act […]
By Solomon Asowata A power expert, Mr Kola Balogun, said the Phase One of the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) can create 500,000 jobs for Nigerians. Balogun, who is the Chairman, Momas Electricity Meter Manufacturing […]
Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, assented into law the bill prohibiting Open Cattle Grazing and Trespass of Cattle on Land, 11 days after the legislation was unanimously passed by the State House […]
Arising from the parallel ward and local government congresses, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is faced with resolving intra-party crisis in 23 states. Of the 23 states where parallel congresses took place, the newly-cobbled nine-member […]
Hon. Risikat Ajoke Adegeye, wife of legendary Nigerian Juju singer, Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, better known as King Sunny Ade, is dead. Adegeye, a devoted and loyal party member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), […]
The four biggest global audit firms earned a whopping N6.13 billion from 11 Nigerian banks as audit fees for 2020, a review by PREMIUM TIMES shows. The big four are PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst […]
The federal government says it has commenced the payment of outstanding allowances to 9,066 volunteers who participated in batches A and B of the 2016 and 2018 N-Power programmes. Bashir Alkali, permanent secretary, ministry of […]
A new law being proposed by the National Assembly as part of an amendment to the Electric Power Sector Reform Act (EPSRA) may compel electricity generation companies to fund host communities with five per cent […]
The Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of Police Abuses and other Related Matters has suspended its sitting indefinitely. Chairman of the Lagos Judicial Panel, Retired Justice Doris Okuwobi, announced the suspension on […]
A total of 15 projects, spread across the six geopolitical zones of the country, are to be financed with more than $4 billion from multilateral institutions, under the 2018-2021 medium-term (rolling) external borrowing plan. President […]
Stakeholders have urged governments to shore up budgetary allocation to education to improve a lot of youths. In their separate remarks at the University of Ibadan Alumni Association (UIAA), Oyo State branch, they also canvased […]
The Federal Government has to mobilise the energies and capacities of youths to minimise national security risks. Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Akin Dare, disclosed this in Abuja, yesterday, at the launch […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says N300 billion has been disbursed to farmers while 1.6 million poor and vulnerable households are currently benefiting from the Conditional Cash Transfer programme. The president revealed this while virtually declaring open […]
A bill for a law to impose and charge Value Added Tax (VAT) on certain goods and services, provide for administration of the tax and for related purposes scaled second reading at Ogun State House […]
(Bloomberg) — When Anthony Stimler left Glencore Plc in August 2019, he had two big secrets: For a dozen years, he’d paid millions in bribes to African officials and intermediaries. And he was now helping […]
Amid concerns over debt overhang, President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the Senate to consider and approve an external borrowing plan amounting to about N2.5 trillion to fund projects captured under the 2018-2021 borrowing projections. If […]
A forensics company, Sentinel Forensic Limited, has said bullets expelled from firearms during the #EndSARS protest at Lekki Tollgate in Lagos on October 20, 2020, were from the Nigerian Army. The company’s representative, Joseph Funsho, […]
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