After months of tussle on the purchase and registration of new sim cards in Nigeria, Federal Government has then lifted the ban on new Subscribers Identification Module (SIMs) card registration The effective date for implementation, the government said, is Monday, April 19, 2021.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a total of N20,114,002871 for acquisition of various operational equipment for the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the
The Kogi State Police Command on Wednesday said it arrested three suspects who specialise in robbing Point of Service (POS) operators. The Commissioner of Police (CP), in a statement through the command’s spokesman, William Aya, said operatives of the Operation Puff Adder II
The United States’ Agency for International Development (USAID) in Nigeria has launched a COVID-19 Food Security Challenge that will provide $3 million in grant funding and technical assistance to youth-led and mid-stage firms working in food value chains across the country. A statement
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) says it has received an alert from the ministry of aviation over planned attacks on airports across the country. This was contained in a memo signed by S.M. Mamman, FAAN deputy general manager of administration and
The management of Dangote Cement Plc. says that the price of a bag of cement from its factories and plants in Obajana and Gboko is N2,450, and N2,510 at Ibese. Mr Devakumar Edwin, the company’s Group Executive Director in charge of Strategy, Portfolio
Responding to the Nigerians expectation for Federal Government intervention to halt the sustained increasing price of cooking gas, the Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers (NALPGAM) has adduced reasons the Federal Government alone cannot unilaterally take such decision. Mr Bassey Essien, Executive
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced a whopping record of about N234, 722,222,150 sales from Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) petrol in January 2021. The corporation supplied 1.44billion litres in the month that was 46.30 million litres of the product daily. In
Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma has assured of the State’s commitment to the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones Project of the Federal Government supported by the African Development Bank (AFDB) and the International Fund for African Development (IFAD). Speaking at the Executive
Senate Committee on Public Accounts, on Monday, summoned NICON Insurance Plc, AIICO Insurance and other insurance companies over their failure to allegedly remit N17.4 billion pension fund to the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD). The panel premised its summons on the 2016 report