The Director-General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Patience Oniha, said on Wednesday the Federal Government planned to repay a $500million Eurobond with funds raised from a domestic bond offering held in the last quarter of 2020. The Eurobond is expected to mature this month. She said the government is also casting its glance around the foreign debt market for fresh issues …
The Kano State Government has cancelled the payment of N30,000 as minimum wage and has reverted to N18,000, an official of the government has said. This was confirmed by the Special Adviser on Media to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Salihu Tanko-Yakasai, in an interview with newsmen. He said the state government had stopped the payment of N30,000 minimum wage to its workers …
President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with the former captain of the 1980 African Cup of Nations winning team, the Green Eagles, Christian Chukwu, as he clocked 70 years. Buhari, in a statement on Wednesday by his Media Adviser, Femi Adesina, joined sport lovers, family and friends to celebrate the former coach of the Super Eagles and rejoiced with the multi-talented …
The Nigeria Youth Investment Fund (NYIF) has completed its pilot disbursement of loans totalling N165,700,000 to 239 beneficiaries ahead of the processing of the over three million applications so far received. NYIF is driven by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development. The fund, approved by the Federal Executive Council on July 22, 2020, is being implemented in partnership with …
Federal Government opens talks with China to have access to COVID-19 vaccines for Nigeria. Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffery Onyeama, made the disclosure on Tuesday in Abuja while briefing newsmen shortly after a bilateral meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi. Yi is in Nigeria on a working visit. Onyeama recalled that China was of immense assistance …
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has alleged ransoms money are being used by terrorists to buy illegal arms. In a statement titled, “Our borders and insecurity” issued by the forum’s national chairman, Audu Ogbeh, on Thursday said the development was raised by some of its members from Sokoto and Zamfara states. The forum observed that large consignments were being …
A one time former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, has flown out for medical treatment abroad. Metuh who was recently released by an Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, on Wednesday, travelled outside the country for medical treatment on a protracted spinal cord ailment. Metuh arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, …
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2021 Appropriation Act. He appended his signature to the document at a ceremony inside the council chamber of the presidential villa, Abuja on Thursday. The National Assembly had on December 21, 2020, passed the 2021 Appropriation Bill with an aggregate expenditure of N13, 588, 027,886, 175 trillion READ ALSO: National Assembly transmits N13.5tn finances to …
Many Nigerians are usually not within the behaviour of checking merchandise’ expiry dates. For many who do, they do just for consumables (largely meals and medicines). The truth is, in the case of cosmetics, toiletries, pesticides, disinfectants, physique spray and different private care merchandise, the checking of the expiry dates on the product label isn’t taken critically, but the results …
The Nigeria Centre for Illness Management (NCDC) has warned that January 2021 will likely be robust with a rise in new instances of covid-19, as folks have been seen throughout the yuletide and vacation interval disregarding the laid down protocols regarding social gathering. It additional said that final week was the worst week ever because the starting of the response …
Many occasions occurred within the telecommunication sector of Nigeria this yr however the greatest of all continues to be the federal authorities’s directive to all telecommunications operators to get the Nationwide Id Numbers (NINs) of their clients linked to their SIM registration. This got here in mid-December and the federal government initially handed the operators two weeks to do it. …
Kaduna Government Directs Nigerian Breweries To Reduce Beer Manufacturing we learnt that distributors and sellers within the company’s products are apprehensive that they need to incur further prices attributable to importation of beer into the state. The Kaduna State plant of the Nigerian Breweries Plc is at the moment going through acute scarcity of beer merchandise, after the state authorities …
Nigerians, in a bid to retain connectivity, have crowded NIMC offices to get their NINs and the pressure on the agency’s website resulted in its shutdown last week. A number of Nigerians have once more gathered on the workplaces of the Nationwide Identification Administration Fee (NIMC) in Lagos and Abuja, to register for their Nationwide Identification Quantity (NIN). The Federal …
Former United star Owen Hargreaves has insisted that the Nigeria worldwide Wilfred Ndidi is a participant destined to assist his previous staff presently below supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Hargreaves mentioned as a lot after watching Ndidi marshaled the protection line of Leicester Metropolis of their current 2-2 draw towards Manchester United, including the Nigerian who has been central to the …
c Dole on the weekend battled insurgents who attacked three villages in Hawul Native Authorities Space of Borno State, forcing tons of villagers to flee to the mountains. The hostilities began with the assaults by fighters of the Islamic State for West African Province (ISWAP), who launched assaults on Garkida and surrounding villages in Adamawa State on December 24, and …
President Muhammadu Buhari’s authorities have been suggested to offer storage facilitates and emergency energy provide earlier than buying Covid-19 vaccine. Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna lawmaker warned that such provision was obligatory to be able to protect the vaccines at minus 70degree Celsius. READ ALSO: UNGA Debate: Buhari advocates uninhibited supply of safe coronavirus vaccines to all The previous lawmaker stated …
Angola has suspended air, land, and sea connections with South Africa, Australia, Nigeria, and the UK due to the discovery of the new coronavirus variant SARS-CoV-2. The directive took effect at midnight on December 26. READ ALSO: Budget 2021:Information Ministry to Spend N1.3bn on Travel, Miscellaneous, Refreshment, Others The decision was made public through a joint statement by the country’s interior, …
A PAN-Ohanaeze Ndigbo socio-political firm, Seminar of Igbo Professionals Worldwide (COIPOW), has started intensive campaigns, meetings, and even lobbying to make sure that the Southeast generates the president in 2023. The team slammed the creation of a security outfit from the pioneer of proscribed Indigenous individuals of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, saying that the move would hamper the strategy since …
Lagos — One of Nigeria’s leading airlines, Air Peace, has expanded its global footprints using a direct, nonstop 11-hour airport in the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos into the Isle nation of Jamaica on December 21, 2020. The airline deployed among its three Boeing 777 aircraft with registration number 5N-BVE for your flight. The chartered flight departed at 17:00hrs, dispersing …
A 17-year-old boy has died in Ondo State after having a psychotropic substance popularly known on the streets as colorado’. The boy identified as Joshua, who took the hard drug over the weekend, also gave up the ghost after being in a coma for two days. According to sources, the deceased who was residing in Oba-Ile, Akure South Local Government …
