The Federal Government has disclosed that plans were underway for the reclamation of 1,260 abandoned mining sites nationwide. Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, dropped the hint at a media briefing in Abuja to herald the 2019 Mining ...
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Akwa Ibom government seeks residents’ understanding over road projects
The Akwa Ibom State Government has sought residents and commuters understanding and patience given the current inconveniences they are facing following diversion of traffic from Olusegun Obasanjo Way and Abak Road. State Commissioner for Works, Ephraim Inyangeyen, made the appeal ...
Read More »Groups write N’Assembly, seek investigation of NGOs operating in North East over alleged abuses
The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC) and the Centre for International and Strategy Studies (CISS) have written the National Assembly on the activities of some international non-govermental organisations (NGOs) in the North East and seeking a through investigation of their ...
Read More »Senate begins amendment of oil production sharing contracts’ law, receives report on Abbo as 10 bills scale first reading
The Senate has begun moves to amend the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) Act following the consideration of a bill in that respect. Titled Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract 2004 (Amendment) Bill 2019, the piece of legislation passed ...
Read More »Nigeria moves to protect West Africa’s $286b maritime trade as Buhari assures of new transport plan, strategy
The spate of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is posing a serious threat to import and export trade worth $286 billion in West Africa, stakeholders have disclosed. Speaking at the ongoing Global Maritime Security Conference organised by the Nigerian ...
Read More »Nigerians spent N7.2b on BBNaija votes, N1.5b in final week
Nigerians spent N7.2b to vote for the 26 housemates in the just concluded Big Brother Naija reality TV show, N1.5b in its final week and spent 2,376 hours watching the show. Announcing the results on Sunday, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu said the ...
Read More »How to end sex for marks in nation’s varsities, by Atiku Abubakar
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed outrage over the prevalence of sex for grades in public tertiary institutions across Nigeria and West Africa. Reacting to the exposure in the BBC Africa Eye’s latest investigative documentary, Atiku said such predatory ...
Read More »Court bars FIRS from enforcing VAT on consumables in hotels
Increase will impact more on urban centres, wealthy, says minister Justice Rilwanu Aikawa of the Federal High Court in Lagos has barred the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) from enforcing VAT provisions on goods and services consumed in hotels, restaurants ...
Read More »Delay in completion of Lagos-Ibadan rail project causing hiccups
Indications have emerged that the Federal Government may be experiencing some hiccups in the build-up to the December deadline for the completion of the Lagos-Ibadan railway project. In as much the contractor, China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) has completed ...
Read More »Gunmen abduct Bayelsa Commissioner’s father Agbabou Week
Unidentified gunmen have abducted 84 year-old father of Bayelsa State Commissioner for Agriculture, Chief George Agbabou Week and carted away his electronic gadgets, jewelries in Southern Ijaw Council Area of the state. His abduction is coming four days after Beauty ...
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