Onne Customs processed N52.6bn export
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Port Harcourt Area ll Command Onne had said 331.1 metric tonnes of cargo worth N52.6 billion was export through the port between January to June, 2021 The Free On Board, FOB, value of the expory stood at $137.9 million. The export items include sesame seeds, ginger, cocoa beans, hibiscus, fluorite […]
UNICEF to supply AU states 220 million COVID-19 vaccines
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply up to 220 million doses of the J&J single-dose vaccine to all 55 member-states of the African Union (AU) by the end of 2022. Some 35 million doses are to be delivered by the end of this year, UNICEF stated in a statement issued […]
Affordable housing: Abuja’s rejection of high-rise living spaces worry developers
By Victoria Ojeme The Abuja skyline could be changing. A developer has expressed interest in building multiple skyscrapers to challenge the city’s high-cost accommodation subject to approval from authorities. Abioye Oke, the chief executive of Lifestyle Asset Hub Limited, a Pan African Housing Solution Company in an interview in Abuja yesterday said Abuja’s city landscape […]
Enugu farmers protest destruction of farms worth millions
SCORES of farmers in the sleepy agrarian community Umueba, Mgbuji, Eha-Amufu, Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State, have cried out over the destruction of their farms valued to run into millions of Naira by thugs allegedly sent by prominent indigenes of the community led by a serving Commissioner in Enugu State.
CBN rolls out framework for Payment Service Banks
By Elizabeth Adegbesan The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has issued a Supervisory Framework for Payment Service Banks (PSBs) in the country. In the framework released yesterday, CBN said that the PSBs, among other things, must operate mostly in the rural areas and unbanked locations targeting financially excluded persons, with not less than 25 percent […]
NEPZA receives land grant for N2bn garment FTZ in Katsina State
By Victoria Ojeme The Nigerian Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has been granted 277 hectares of land by the Katsina State government for a two billion Naira garment Free Trade Zone (FTZ). The Managing Director of NEPZA, Professor Adesoji Adesugba, disclosed this yesterday when he received the certificate of occupancy over the land from Governor […]
INEC nomination: Group says Lauretta lied on oath, should be withdrawn
A coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs), as well as an election observer group, has called for the withdrawal of Lauretta Onochie, who was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Claims of 17 million housing deficit not realistic ―Fashola
By Chris Ochayi, Abuja The Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola has described as not realistic, the claim that there is a housing deficit of 17 million houses. Fashola, who disputed the claim, while speaking yesterday in Abuja during the inauguration of the Board for the federal housing authority, FHA, said the claim could not […]
Displacing Dangote as Africa’s richest man, my dream says Oil Money
Despite his incredible life story as a hugely successful businessman, Event management tycoon, Alafaa Kariboye Igbo fondly called Oil Money is not resting on his oars as he sets his sight on taking the crown of the continent’s wealthiest businessman from Alhaji Aliko Dangote. The trio of Nigeria’s leading businessmen such as Aliko Dangote, Femi […]
North East’s food crisis, acute malnutrition attracts $26.95m aid from Canada
By Victoria Ojeme The Canadian government has pledged to support Nigeria’s north east, homeland of Boko Haram insurgency, with $26.95m to tackled ongoing food, malnutrition and associated health crisis in the region this year. Canada is also providing $5.5 million to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to help conflict and pandemic-affected households in the […]
The party is over, really?
By Azu Ishiekwene IF the defections from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, continue at the current pace, the only people left in the opposition may be those to pack and return the chairs to storage before the next general elections in two years. It’s not funny. Apart from […]
