The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday launched the free wifi zones in Wuse 2 market of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT – Abuja. The Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, quoted the Vice President as describing the occasion as “a very exciting day […]
The Federal Government has taken its social intervention campaign under the ‘Trader Moni’ scheme to Jigawa State with the initial sum of N300 million ready for disbursement to thousands of traders in the state. Altogether, a total of N1.5 billion has been earmarked for on- lending through Unity Bank to about 35,000 Jigawa petty traders […]
The Federal Government has said that more than 200,000 Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, (MSMEs) will benefit from its Energizing Economies Initiative being implemented by the Rural Electrification Agency(REA). This is even as the initiative is expected to create over 2,500 jobs and reduce carbon emissions by 25,000 metric tonnes annually. The agency’s Director of Promotions, Ayang […]
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has put Nigeria’s funding need to modernize energy infrastructure across the country at about $1 trillion. He gave this projection in his keynote remarks while declaring open the National Energy and Climate Change summit on Thursday in Abuja, saying that government is doing its best to attract domestic and […]
The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said that the present administration had provided interest-free loans totalling N15.183 billion to over 300,000 beneficiaries since the implementation of the Social Investment Programme (SIP) commenced nationwide. Osinbajo who gave this hint at the 9th Presidential Quarterly Business Forum held at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential […]
The Federal Government has approved a 90-day special window to register Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) at a discounted rate of N5,000 as part of its efforts to make easy the process of registering enterprises and improving the nation’s Ease of Doing business rating. The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who gave this hint on […]
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, on Thursday restated Federal Government’s commitment to the implementation of the various strategies set out in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). The strategies are aimed at addressing the five execution priorities of Macroeconomic Stabilization, Agriculture and Food Security, Transportation, Energy and Industrialization. […]
The Federal Government has restated its commitment to spend N500 billion on the implementation of its ongoing wealth creation and poverty alleviation programmes nationwide. The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, made the pledge during the question and answer session of the 58th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) with the theme ‘Transition, Transformation […]
Nigeria’s foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows have continued to gain more traction following the ongoing economic policy reforms of the government with about $83.9 billion investments inflow into the economy from January 2017 and the end of the first quarter of this year. The evidence of the improved FDI inflows was contained in a report […]
State Governors, under the auspices of the Nigerian Governors Forum, are meeting in Abuja Wednesday night to deliberate over sundry fiscal matters, particularly the circumstances that culminated to the deadlock of the Federation Accounts and Allocation Committee (FAAC) meetings in Abuja. A source confirmed that the governors would take their resolutions on the sundry matters at […]