The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has said that Nigeria lacks the resources to build a greenfield refinery currently at a estimated cost of $12billion. He made the clarification while reacting to insinuations by critics that the $1.5 billion approved...
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Nigeria Banks’ credit to the economy rose by N75bn to N43.67tn as of the end of February from N42.92tn in January. The Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, said the committee noted that the bank has disbursed funds under its various agricultural interventions towards...
At least four persons were reportedly killed and one admitted in hospital after renewed cult activities at Okija in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State. No fewer than seven persons have lost their lives in the community under similar circumstances in the past few months. Last week,...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday said it has registered 214 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 162,082. As at Tuesday (23rd, March 2021), the public health agency recorded one (1) COVID-19-related deaths,...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted concealed and unaccompanied parcels of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and cannabis sativa being shipped to the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Australia, Maldives and New Zealand. A suspected trafficker, Sikiru Owolabi, who is said to be behind at least two of the...
Myanmar on Wednesday freed more than 600 people detained in anti-junta protests, a senior prison official told AFP. “We released 360 men and 268 women from Insein prison today,” a senior official from the jail told AFP, on condition of anonymity. Details shortly.
The All-Progressives Congress (APC) is working towards retaining power at the federal level for at least 36 years. This is according to the party’s Chairman of the Caretaker-Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee and Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, who disclosed this on Tuesday during a press conference in...
The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has asked the Federal Government to tackle the deteriorating insecurity in the country. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, Akeredolu warned that the 2023 general elections might be threatened if the insecurity situation worsens. He also condemned Saturday’s...
Nigeria’s priorities in a post-COVID-19 world include restoring economic growth in the immediate term, building resilience in the health sector, and repositioning the economy on a sustainable footing in the medium term while saving jobs and building domestic capacity and local production in critical areas. These were the summations...
The latest report published by the National Bureau of Statistics(NBS) on its website which among other things noted that Nigeria Unemployment Rate has risen from 27.1% in the second quarter of 2020, to 33%, has helped Nigerians see clearly how the deck is stacked against the poor and the...
In a bid to enhance operational efficiency, improve service delivery and grow the business, leading pharmaceutical retailer HealthPlus Limited has begun a restructuring programme. The initiative will see the company optimize its operations, open new branches across the country, and retrain employees to improve their effectiveness in serving customers....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- UNICEF on Tuesday organized a one day sensitization workshop for Borno state traditional and religious leaders on covid-19 vaccination exercise which had commenced on 13th March 2021 after the receipt of 75,510 doses of the vaccines. Recalled that the vaccine was launched in the state...
The Ondo State Police Command has apprehended a middle aged man identified as Gbenro for allegedly killing his wife in Ondo city, Ondo State. It was gathered that the Gbenro strangulated the victim named Wayeṣọla to death while she was asleep at their residence on Salvation Army street, Odojomu...
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has said that if the insecurity challenges in the country persist, the 2023 elections will not hold. Governor Ortom stated this on Tuesday when he visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The governor who arrived at the Villa unaccompanied...
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has voted to retain the monetary policy rate at 11.5 percent. The announcement was made on Tuesday by the CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele at the end of a two-day meeting at the CBN headquarters. The committee also...
The Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) says it has establishedfive nutrition clubs in three Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. The establishment of the clubs is to promote adequate Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices. The Coordinator of the NGO in the state, Ms Jessica Bartholomew,...
The Police sergeant, Bukola Olawoye, who was shot during the House of Assembly bye-election for Ekiti East Constituency 1 is dead. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the death of the officer to newsmen, said she died on Monday evening at Federal Teaching...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Oyo State Command, has trained 150 new desk officers from its Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU) to tackle insecurity in the state. The NSCDC Commandant in the state, Iskiku Akinsanya, while declaring a two-day training open on Tuesday in Ibadan, urged the officers...
Roughly 60 migrants are presumed dead after their boat engine caught fire off the Libyan coast during an attempted Mediterranean crossing, a rescue charity said on Tuesday. Alarm Phone, a volunteer-run Mediterranean rescue hotline, said it had spoken to survivors of the March 18 accident in which the engine...
Wife of Benue Governor, Mrs Eunice Ortom, has appealed to people to always go for Tuberculosis (TB) test anytime they experienced regular coughing for upwards of two weeks. Ortom made the plea on Tuesday in Makurdi at a news conference to herald the 2021 World TB Day. According to the...