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Mr Kassim Abdullahi, the Executive Director, Generation, Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), says the firm is working to export power to Togo Republic through the Calabar Power Plant. Abdullahi disclosed this in a statement signed by Mrs Olufunke Nwankwo, NDPHC’s Head, Communication and Public Relations on Monday in Abuja. The statement followed an inspection […]

The Nigerian government has explained why children in the country will not be receiving the approved COVID-19 vaccines when it finally arrives. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, while speaking at Monday’s weekly briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, said the vaccines have not […]

Under the new Highway Development and Management Initiative of the Federal Government, private individuals will be permitted to build, operate or maintain assets on some federal highways that are up for concession. Already, the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing had received the Outline Business Case Certificate of Compliance to the commence procurement process for […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will be disbursing N118 billion for power distribution projects across the six geopolitical zones. Senior Special Assistant to President Mohammadu Buhari on Public Affairs, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this on Sunday. This, he said, would enable the operators to add 2,000 megawatts to the power supply. Ngelale said the current […]

Nigeria recorded 521 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, much lower than the 660 on Saturday. The daily death toll also fell to eight, as against the 18 a day before. As of Sunday, Nigeria had 152,074 confirmed cases, with 128,619 discharged. Total death toll stands as 1839.

Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in Lagos yesterday that Nigeria might get COVID-19 vaccines in the next 10 days. “We are told that by the end of this month, which is about 10 days from now, we shall get the vaccines,” the minister said. “We do not produce the vaccines. They are manufactured abroad in […]

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says government’s foresight and planning were factors responsible for the country’s exit from recession in a short time. The minister said this on Saturday, while appearing on Sunrise Daily, a Channels TV programme, monitored by TheCable. Nigeria exited recession with a 0.11 per cent growth in the fourth quarter of […]

In March 2019, CNN reported that about 1,600 people have been secretly filmed in motel rooms in South Korea, with the footage live-streamed online for paying customers to watch. Two men were arrested and another pair investigated in connection with the scandal, which involved 42 rooms in 30 accommodations in 10 cities around the country. […]

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has declared his intention to run for the governorship of Anambra in the November 6 poll. Soludo would be running on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Declaring his ambition on Thursday in Awka, he said he had been a […]

Former Presidential candidate, Oby Ezekwesili has stated that Nigerians are not yet ready for good governance. In a tweet she shared, Ezekwesili said Nigerians absolutely enjoy and believe they deserve to be poorly governed, and politicians understand this. ‘I will repeat it yet again. Citizens of Nigeria are not yet ready for Good Governance. They […]

The Amazon chief executive, Jeff Bezos, on Wednesday displaced Tesla CEO Elon Musk as the world’s richest person. He ended Mr Musk’s nearly two months reign as the richest. In November, 2020, Mr Musk beat Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking shows that Mr Musk lost about […]

Ferocious winter weather sweeping across large parts of the central and southern US has brought record-breaking cold temperatures, left millions without power and killed at least 21 people across multiple states. The worst power outages were in Texas, where more than 4m homes and businesses remained without power on Tuesday in subfreezing temperatures. Elsewhere more than 250,000 people […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This was disclosed in a statement written on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. In a letter to the President of the Senate, Ahmad […]

A former Nigerian minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has emerged the first female Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Mrs Okonjo-Iweala was confirmed DG of the trade body in a statement by the WTO on Monday. The United States government had last week announced its endorsement of Mrs Okonjo-Iweala for the top job. It became clear earlier […]