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The federal government of Nigeria has lifted the ban on the operations of Emirates Airlines, saying the flights from the United Arab Emirates to Nigeria has commence immediately. The minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced the lifting of the ban on Friday night, adding that the ban was lifted after the stringent conditions put by…
Lagos State has recorded another landmark in its plan to cut down the use of dirty fuels responsible for carbon emission and air pollution. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday, commissioned a 40 metric tons Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Refill Plant in Ikorodu division. The Governor, in company of his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, opened the…
Nigeria and Pakistan on Thursday signed trade agreements on affordable cardiovascular pharmaceuticals and other antibiotics at the ongoing trade exhibition by Pakistani companies in Lagos. The agreements were signed on the last day of the 2nd Pakistan-Africa Trade Development Conference and Single Country Exhibition. The Deputy Managing Director, Assene Laborex Eurapharma, Mr Renaud Beauchamp, after…
Sen. Tanko Al-Makura, Chairman, Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mine, Steel Development and Metallurgy, has called for special funding towards reactivating the Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi. He stated this on Thursday while presenting the 2022 budget report of his committee to the Senate Appropriation Committee. Al-Makura (APC-Nasarawa) stressed the importance of the solid minerals…
Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sector has contributed N8.13tillion to real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the nine months to September 2021. According to data collated from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS’) reports the sector is composed of the four activities of telecommunications and information services; publishing; motion picture, sound recording and music production;…
Lagos State has earmarked huge capital expenditure of N1.39 trillion in the 2022 fiscal year to service key growth areas in order to consolidate the recovery of the State’s economy and positively transform residents’ livelihoods. Presenting the budget to the House of Assembly on Wednesday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the State would be spending N325…
The 2022 Appropriation Bill will be passed on December 14, president of the senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said. Lawan, who made the announcement during plenary on Tuesday said that this was to enable the upper chamber maintain the January to December budget cycle. He said that it was essential for the senate to stick to…
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday voted to hold the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 11.5 per cent for the umpteenth time. Reading a communiqué after the committee’s 282nd meeting on Tuesday, Mr Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor, said the MPC also unanimously agreed to hold all…
Federal Government of Nigeria has come face-to-face with reality that the nation’s oil-driven economy should be diversified. What are the plans on the ground to actualise this? *** The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, has said the reforms by the current administration have begun to bear fruits following achievements in de-risking the…
The end users are the worse for it when diesel continue to rise in an ailing economy. What are the implications on market forces? *** As the organised labour and the Federal Government continue their engagement on what the appropriate price of petroleum motor spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol should be, oil marketers in…
