archiveMarch 2021

Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has proposed an initiative that will enable electricity customers who could not wait for deployment schedule of meter under the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) to buy meters under the Meter Assets Provider (MAP). The regulatory agency, said customers in this category shall continue to...

Nigerian music star, Burna Boy, is scheduled to perform at the 63rd Grammy Awards ceremony slated for March 14, 2021. The artiste who bagged a World Music Album nomination alongside Antibalas, Bebel Gilberto, Anoushka Shankar, and Tinariwen, will perform during the Grammy Premiere event. The Grammy Premiere which precedes the...

The management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun state has disclosed that it online post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) test would now hold between Monday, March 15 to Friday 19, 2021. A statement issued by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Abiodun Olanrewaju on Tuesday disclosed that guidelines,...

The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) on Wednesday advised Nigerians against panic buying of petrol, noting that there was enough stock to meet in-country demand. Executive Secretary of MOMAN, Mr Clement Isong, gave the advice in interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos while reacting...

The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has said that it has no part in the ongoing stoppage of the movement of food items from the North to the South embarked upon by the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers Association (AUFCDA). In a statement issued in Kaduna, the Secretary of...

  Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River on Tuesday inaugurated a construction and fabrication academy,  with 500 initial trainees.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the academy will train apprentices on skills such as information and communication technology (ICT), welding and fabrication, tiling and plumbing, among other skills. NAN also...

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has felicitated with one of the founding-fathers and former National President of the body, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, as he clocked 79 years on Tuesday. PFN also congratulated Adeboye on his 40th anniversary as the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)....

 The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed concern over the decision of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers to halt movements of food items from the North to the South.The ACF made the observation in a statement issued by its National Chairman, Chief Audu Ogbe, and made available to...

 The World Health Organisation (WHO) believes it is unlikely the Coronavirus pandemic （COVID-19）will come to an end  by the end of 2021. “I think it will be very premature and unrealistic to think that we are going to finish with this virus by the end of the year,” Michael Ryan,...

 The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 479 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 156,496.The NCDC disclosed the figure on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that since the outbreak of the disease...