The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has assured Nigerians of availability of petroleum products across the country during the yuletide. IPMAN’s President, Mr Chinedu Okoronkwo, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos while reacting to resurfacing of...
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There are no provisions in the Finance Bill 2022 forcing Nigerians to have a Tax Identification Number(TIN) in order to operate a bank account, a top presidency source has clarified. The bill is, at present, before the National Assembly. News reports had erroneously claimed that the bill has a...
Ms Ulla Mueller, The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Nigeria, says the country has 15.1 per cent unmet need for family planning. Mueller disclosed this in Abuja at NAN Forum, the flagship interview programme of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). According to her, 15.1 per...
Seventy Eight Nigerians who are on scholarship to study various courses have arrived in Russia, the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow has said. The students, who are part of the second batch of the 2020/2021 academic year scholarship under the Russia-Nigeria Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA), arrived Vnukovo International airport, on...
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have threatened to embark on another industrial action following a three-week ultimatum issued by the union last month. They, however, called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to honour the agreement reached with the union. The lecturers...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), on Thursday in Abuja, launched a five-year action plan to tackle malnutrition in the country. The plan titled: ”National Multi-sectoral Plan of Action for Food...
The Federal Government in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday repatriated another 180 stranded Nigerians in Libya. Mr Kabiru Musa, Charge d’ Affairs of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday...
By HARUNA AHMED, Sokoto – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said repeated attacks in northwest Nigeria have forced over 11,500 Nigerians to flee across the border into neighboring Niger in November, resulting in humanitarian crisis. Armed groups, locally called “bandits”, have repeatedly attacked villages in...
It is a common knowledge that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) recently rejected the Federal Government proposed N5, 000 for 40 million poor Nigerians when the subsidy on Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) is removed. While describing it as ‘nonsensical’ the argument that the complete surrender of the price of...
Mr Osita Okechukwu, the Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) has faulted claim by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of its plans to rescue Nigeria. He said that going by the antecedents of the PDP, it cannot be trusted to rescue Nigeria . “How can Nigerians trust our sister...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Sunday said it was monitoring emerging evidence on the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, which was first recently identified in Southern Africa. The new variant “is considered highly transmissible” and has already triggered a new wave of travel restrictions targeted at countries in...
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria has told the Federal Government that removing fuel subsidy will worsen the suffering of the majority of Nigerians who are already impoverished. The President of PFN, Bishop Wale Oke, urged the government to shelve the proposed policy in order not to worsen the hardship...
As a way of tackling the problem of growing youth unemployment in Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on has launched the Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES) in Abuja. The apex bank also presented cheques of N5million each to six pioneer beneficiaries of the scheme to help boost...
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has backed the Federal Government’s plan to remove subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol by 2021. IPMAN’s President, Mr Chinedu Okoronkwo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos that the Petroleum Industry Act...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected a planned petrol price hike in the country and the Federal Government’s proposal to pay the sum of N5000 monthly to Nigerians as palliative. NLC President, Ayuba Wabba in a statement on Wednesday described the plan of the Federal Government as a...
The Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Mr Clem Agba, said the federal government had spent N2.3 trillion as stimulus package to cushion the effect of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Agba said this at a three-day 4th National Treasury Workshop organised by the Office of the Accountant...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it is targeting 25,000 women and youth in Jigawa state who have no bank account to do so, in an ongoing five-day Digital Financial Inclusion drive. Mr Audu Amadu, the Head of Development Finance, Jigawa branch office, said this while fielding questions...
By BUSOLA OJO, Lagos – Veteran Yoruba actor Babatunde Omidina aka Baba Suwe is dead. The actor died on Monday at 67. Baba Suwe’s death was announced by one of his daughters, Adesola Omidina. She said: “This is to announce the sudden death of my father, Babatunde Omidina, the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday celebrated the former President Goodluck Jonathan as he marks his 64th birthday, saying Nigerians across the divides are proud of him. The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, who stated this in a statement in...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has asked Nigerians to wait till January 2022 for the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to declare whether he will be running for president in 2023 or not. Fashola said this during an interview on Channels Television’s...