archiveMarch 2019

After over 60 years of exploration, Nigeria still has over 41 billion barrels of crude oil reserves untapped, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has disclosed. Nigeria discovered crude oil in 1956 at Oloibiri in the present-day Bayelsa State. Production began a  later...

A total of 49ersons were said to have been killed and at least 20 others injured as gunmen attacked two mosques in New Zealand. The gunmen were reported to have opened indiscriminate fire at worshippers, including women and children, who had gathered for Friday prayers, Al Jazeera reports. New Zealand’s...

The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has launched the REPORTGOV.NG App, an official public service feedback and complaints platform to support business climate reforms implemented by the Council since 2016. According to a statement by Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, SSA Industry, Trade & Investment to the President, Office of the...

  Recalls various Next Level campaign encounters with the people Says Buhari’s administration will connect more with the people in second term REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF YEMI OSINBAJO, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE PMB/PYO VOLUNTEERS’ APPRECIATION DINNER, BANQUET HALL, ABUJA, ON THE 14TH OF...

The Lagos State Government on Friday began the demolition of marked dilapidated buildings in Lagos Island in Lagos few days after the building collapse that killed about 14 persons  on Lagos Island in Lagos. The state government had earlier earmarked about 140 building for demolition on Lagos Island. 29 of...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has released the data for the February 2019 inflation report, showing that Nigeria’s headline consumer price index moderated for the second consecutive month at  11.31 per cent year on year (y/y) in February as against 11.37 per cent in January. Food inflation rose by...

Global human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has raised concern over the inability of the Federal Government of Nigeria(FGN) to hold those involved in human rights violation accountable. In a statement by the Media Manager of Amnesty International Nigeria, Isa Sanusi, the group decried what it described as pervasive violence against...

Okonjo-Iweala not on nomination list The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, on Thursday, announced the closing of the period for submitting nominations for the position of the next president of the bank. The board said in a statement that it received one nomination – David Malpass, a US national...

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has registered over 73,000 companies within three months under its cost-friendly Business Incentive Strategy (BIS) rolled out in October last year, Acting Registrar-General of the commission, Lady Azuka Azinge has said. According to Azinge, “From 1st October to 31st December, 2018, we registered 73,000 companies...

  The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has urged members of the 2019 Inter-Ministerial Presidential Inauguration Committee to deliver on its mandate of a successful swearing in. Mustapha made the call on Thursday in Abuja during the inauguration of the committee. He urged members of...