Nigeria has also moved up 24 places to 145th position in the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ report which was published today, October 31. The World Bank Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 Read more
REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE APC GOVERNORSHIP CAMPAIGN FLAG-OFF IN ONITSHA, ANAMBRA STATE EARLIER TODAY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017 How many people know that we are Read more
IT IS IMPORTANT TO SET THE RECORDS STRAIGHT Claims on social and traditional media that $25BN worth of oil contracts were awarded by the NNPC or that $25BN in NNPC funds is missing are both false. According to Mr. Laolu Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 appointed Dr Ibe Kachikwu as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the nation’s golden goose-the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)-to a wide public acclaim. This money-spinner had hitherto been riddled with monumental corruption, gross abuse Read more
Riccofortezza-Asteven Energy Limited, one of the two firms executing Light-Up Kwara (LUK), the solar-powered streetlight project of the Kwara State government, has released its roll-out plan for the ongoing second phase of the project. The Chairman of the company, Dr. Read more
The Federal Government has said that there is no plan to Islamise the country with the recent issuance of its N100bn Sukuk bond. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said this on the sidelines of an investor conference organised Read more
The Nigerian government has approved the payment of N45 billion severance package to former staff of the defunct Nigeria Airways. The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said this on Wednesday in Abuja. Mr. Sirika told State House correspondents Read more
The Kwara State government has commenced the second phase of its Light-Up Kwara (LUK), an innovative solar-powered streetlight project. The State Commissioner for Energy, Engr. Idris Garba, who made this known on Friday in Ilorin, stated that installation of streetlights Read more
On Tuesday, the National Bureau of Statistics gave a lot of Nigerians the news they desperately wished to hear – Nigeria is out of recession. After five consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth that started in Q1 2016, Nigeria’s economy Read more
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that their sustained strategic intervention in the efficient supply and distribution petroleum products, has led to a significant reduction in the prices of premium motor spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, and Read more