Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday met with members of the Economic Management Team (EMT) in Abuja over the $9.6 billion judgment debt awarded against Nigeria by a United Kingdom court in respect of a failed gas deal with an Irish ...
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Experts task entrepreneurs on right business models to boost funding
Experts have charged entrepreneurs to build their business profiles, earn investors’ trust in order to facilitate access to funding in terms of investment capital. They stated this at the annual reception organised by the Most Influential People of African Descent ...
Read More »Aviation minister Sirika okays international status for Asaba airport, Imo to upgrade Sam Mbakwe’s, partners Air Force on security
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, yesterday confirmed an international status for the Asaba, Delta State Airport, saying the state government is living up to standards on the required facilities. Sirika, who spoke with journalists after inspecting facilities at the facility ...
Read More »Yakasai backs clamour for Igbo presidency in 2023, urges persuasion as against threats, intimidation
An elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai has expressed support for the clamour for Igbo presidency after the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari lapses in 2023. In an interview, he argued that the emergence of a Nigerian President from the South-East geopolitical ...
Read More »Imo raises panels to probe housing projects under Okorocha, ex-gov denies holding govt’s boats, property
The Imo State Government has inaugurated five committees to audit projects for 32 housing estates, resources that accrued to the state’s Housing Corporation and how they were spent during former Governor Rochas Okorocha’s administration. Also to be considered by the ...
Read More »Nigeria will experience recession without private sector participation, Rewane warns
Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Bismarck Rewane, has said Nigerians were wasting their time if they depended on government to manage the economy and liberate them from poverty. He said any country’s economy solely run and dominated ...
Read More »Economist tasks Federal Government on cheaper ways of financing budgets
Nigeria’s consistent reliance on loans with interests, especially from the international market has been identified as a major reason for the poor state of the nation’s economy. Director of International Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, Bayero University, Kano State, ...
Read More »Group moves to reclaim jobs from Southerners in North, faults Rivers, Lagos over demolishion of mosque, ban on Okada
A Coalition of Northern Groups (CNGs) has hinted that it had concluded arrangements to reclaim job opportunities in the North occupied by southerners in the northern part of the country. CNG’s Spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Sulaiman, said a portal had been unveiled ...
Read More »Why agric promotion policy is not successful, by experts
Experts have attributed the failure of the agricultural promotion policy (APP) to achieve the desired impact four years after its launch to inadequate infrastructural facilities. According to them, when policies are not backed up by infrastructure such as good roads, ...
Read More »Experts advocate embedded power plants to boost electricity generation From Matthew Ogune, Abuja
IN line with the Federal Government’s effort to diversify sources of power, energy experts have stressed the need for investment in embedded power generation. Embedded generation is the term used to describe the process of generating electricity at a specific ...
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