Worried by the disparity in their retirement benefits, retirees in the Federal civil service have decided to seek legal redress after years of discussions with the authorities on the matter did not yield any positive results. Already, the retirees who are from the six geopolitical zones, have approached the National Industrial Court, Abuja to seek […]
TotalEnergies SE is planning to explore for oil offshore South Africa’s West Coast, where environmental groups have increasingly opposed such activity. The French explorer proposes to drill one well, which could result in an additional nine wells depending on the success of the first, SLR Consulting Ltd., which is doing the environmental assessment, said on […]
The Federal Government has concluded arrangements to kick-off the validation phase of the first integrated oil development project in Northern Nigeria on Tuesday as part of sustained efforts to tap into hydrocarbon resources deposits of the country. According to sources at the Presidency, the event to be performed by President Muhammadu Buhari will take place […]
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, will this Thursday serve as chairman of the forum for the commencement of broadband initiatives to be implemented by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The projects are designed to accelerate broadband penetration in Nigeria and advance the course of digital economy projections for the nation. A […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Nigeria on Sunday announced that the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, would this Thursday launch the revised capital market Master Plan that will serve as roadmap for the nation’s capital market regulations over the next few years. Similarly, the commission has scheduled the 3rd Quarter […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced the adoption and publication of the final version of the Information Memorandum (IM) to guide the upcoming auction of the remaining lots of the 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) Spectrum for the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) services in Nigeria. Before now, the Commission had published a daft IM and […]
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria’s statistical system coordinating agency, at the weekend hinted that it would commence the National Agricultural Sample Census (NASC) this week in eight pilot states after series of training of enumerators and other personnel that would be involved in the exercise nationwide. The pilot states are Ekiti, Jigawa, Delta, […]
The Federal Government has commended state governments in the country on their scorecards in the implementation of the States Fiscal Transparency Accountability and Sustainability Programme for Results (SFTAS). The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, who lauded the sub-national government governors at a dinner in Abuja, noted that the $1.5bn […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Federal Government will continue to pursue its dream of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030 agenda by prioritizing poverty-reduction projects, programmes and initiatives in yearly budgets’ funding. Buhari made the promise on Thursday while launching the ‘2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Survey Report’ published by […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has commended the Ondo State Government for its move to deploy broadband infrastructure through the Odua Infraco and charged other states to invest in such critical telecom facilities in the collective efforts to deepen broadband penetration in the country. The NCC’s management gave the commendation when a delegation of Ondo […]