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  The Federal Government has rolled out plans to strengthen Nigeria’s agricultural sector so as to ensure food security in 2022. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammed Abubakar, disclosed this on Thursday at the launch of a Rural Rubber Resources Centre at Ndioko Izombe and a 1,000 capacity...

Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) on Thursday presented a device named Aptus Pi to aid training of apprentices learning Mobilie Phone Repairs, Computer Hardware repairs and maintenance in Computer Village, Ikeja. Mr Joe Ejiofor, Deputy Registrar of the YABATECH, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said...

The Debt Management Office (DMO) has called on Nigerian investors to partner with the Federal Government towards the development of road infrastructure. The DMO announced this in its website,  as it opened offer for a new Sovereign Sukuk of up to N250 billion on Thursday. It stated that the Federal...

...we'll continue to build viable road infrastructure- Makinde ...names Airport Road after Olunloyo ...Nigeria needs Oyo Gov's kind of leadership- Diri Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, and a former Governor of Oyo State, Dr. Omololu Olunloyo, on Thursday, joined the Governor of Oyo State, 'Seyi Makinde, to flag...

*VP insists on a conducive business environment in order to attract more foreign investments, create more jobs, opportunities for Nigerians Going forward, there will be a more aggressive accountability audit of various Federal Government agencies, identifying bureaucratic bottlenecks and removing them in a renewed effort to further improve the country’s...

In a further demonstration of its commitment to supporting women entrepreneurs, Nigeria's leading digitally driven financial institution, Wema Bank, has revamped its 9 per cent loan offering for female SME owners. The revamped offer includes a longer tenor, easier access and requires no guarantor or collateral, in accessing this facility....

  The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved 1.9 billion dollars for the procurement of equipment for the nation’s power sector to boost power supply across the country, through the Presidential Power Initiative. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed made the disclosure on Wednesday, when she briefed...

The bankers committee will, in 2022, be focusing on supporting the Central Bank and the government in developing the infrastructure of the country, according to the Governor of the apex bank, Mr Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele told journalists at the end of the two-day annual bankers’ committee retreat on Wednesday in...

By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM As inflationary pressures ease and economic growth slowly recovers, it remains a matter of ‘when, not if’ the Central Bank of Nigeria will raise interest rates in 2022. Other central banks have already joined the global tightening train in 2021 including South...

approves N8.8bn USPF budget   The Senate has approved the sum of N633,393,283,000.00 billion naira as budget for the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for the 2022 fiscal year. The approval followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Communications. Chairperson of the Committee, Senator Olufemi Tinubu (APC, Lagos...