Vice president Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday attended the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in person for the first time after he underwent a surgery in a Lagos hospital. He participated I previous FEC meetings virtually.
No fewer than 91 students from Zamfara state have been expelled by Cyprus International University over the failure of the Northwestern state government to pay the tuition and other fees. The students who are on state-sponsored scholarships in the university were evicted because Zamfara has not fulfilled the agreement for ...
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), on Tuesday said that Nigeria exported over 4. 146 million metric tonnes of non-oil products, worth $2.593 billion from January to June 2022. The Executive Director of NEPC, Dr Ezra Yakusak, said this while presenting the first half year 2022 progress report to newsmen ...
The annual bilateral trade volume between Nigeria and Japan stands at one billion dollars. The ambassador of Japan to Nigeria, Mr. Matsunaga Kazuyoshi revealed this at the 2nd Japan-Nigeria business facilitation council meeting on Friday in Abuja. The news agency of Nigeria reports the first working group meeting of the ...
The prize money for Saturday’s (today) heavyweight title rematch between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia has been revealed. According to Evening Standard, Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk will each receive a guaranteed minimum of £33.2m ($40m) for their rematch. Recall that the duo went head-to-head on Wednesday ...
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has revoked the broadcast licences of Silverbird TV, AIT, Raypower FM, and Rhythm FM amongst others over failure to renew their broadcast licences. Director General Mallam Balarabe Shehu, who disclosed this on Friday, directed its state offices to liaise with security agencies to ensure the ...
The House of Representatives’ Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate the Petroleum Products Subsidy Regime from 2013 to 2022, on Thursday, grilled the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, over payments of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) by the Federal Government. Ahmed disclosed that the government spends ...
Emirates Airline has announced the suspension of all flights in and out of Nigeria. This is due to unpaid $85million trapped in the country and unavailability of foreign exchange. The airline in a press statement on Thursday said it will stop its operations indefinitely starting from September 1, 2022 till ...
The National Bureau of Statistics has said Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 19.64 per cent on a year-on-year basis in July, the highest since 2005. The Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Statistics, Prince Semiu Adeniran, said this in the Consumer Price Index for ...
The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has told the Senate that termites have eaten most of the vouchers containing details of how N17.158 billion yet to be accounted for was spent. The N17.158 billion, as stated in the 2018 audit report, was the total amount of money transferred by ...
