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By Bliss Okperan The House of Representatives has asked that the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Mr Bosun Tijani, intervene in, halt and reverse the increase in the DSTV/GOTV tariffs by MultiChoice Nigeria. A member of the House, Mr Umar Ajilo, moved the motion on Tuesday on the floor, saying the prevailing economic hardship has made it difficult for subscribers to meet up with the increment. Recall that earlier this month, MultiChoice Nigeria introduced new rates for its DSTV and GOTV packages in the country, blaming rising costs of business operations for its action. “On Monday, November 6, 2023,

By Bliss Okperan The Minister of FCT, Mr Nyesom Wike, has been advised to extend an olive branch to the Governor of Rivers State, Mr Siminialayi Fubara. The Minister, who handed over the reins of Rivers State to Mr Fubara, has been at loggerheads with his successor. A few weeks ago, some lawmakers of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Mr Wike attempted to impeach the Governor, but President Bola Tinubu quickly intervened and doused the tension. However, all is still not well with both parties, with the Minister granting an interview last week to accuse his ‘political

By Adedapo Adesanya The Nigerian government has outlined its priorities for the upcoming 28th Conference of Parties (COP) in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Speaking to journalists at a pre-COP workshop organised by the National Council on Climate Change (NCCC), the Director General of the council, Mr Salisu Dahiru, said the country has a number of issues dear to its economy and journey towards climate resilience that it hopes to achieve at COP28. COP 28 is the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place from November 30 to December 12. COP takes place every year and is the world’s

By Adedapo Adesanya The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has written to the World Bank to suspend issuing loans to Nigeria’s 36 states over allegations of mismanaging public funds which may include loans obtained from the institution. In the letter dated November 25, 2023, the group specifically wants the bank’s President, Mr Ajay Banga, “to promptly, transparently and effectively conduct an investigation into the spending of loans and other facilities by the country’s 36 state governors and to suspend any loans and funding if there is relevant admissible evidence of mismanagement or diversion of public funds by any of

By Adedapo Adesanya The Minister of Transport, Mr Muazu Sambo, has said that the Lekki Deep Seaport project would create about 112,000 jobs for Nigerians upon its completion. Mr Sambo said this on Sunday in Jalingo, Taraba state capital, noting that the port, which will be the second in Nigeria after Onne Deep SeaPort would bring more tonnage and swell the revenue to the port and as a result to the country. He further said the importance of the project would impact positively on the nation’s economy. “The Lekki Deep seaport project is the second after Onne Deep Sea Port

By Modupe Gbadeyanka The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), as well as its partners, is seeking about $65 million to help the growing number of refugees arriving in Angola from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since April, some 30,000 refugees have already arrived in Angola’s Lunda Norte province, fleeing violent attacks in the Kasai region since. Inter-communal tensions, clashes among different militia groups and the Congolese armed forces, have now displaced more than 1.3 million people internally. Humanitarian agencies fear the situation could develop into a large-scale conflict affecting more civilians. The number of refugees could reach 50,000 according

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Nigeria can improve its shortage of foreign exchange (FX), pressuring the Naira at the currency market if the government pay attention to education tourism, an educational consultancy, Schoolingyonda, has submitted. At the moment, many Nigerian students go outside the country to further their education because of different issues in the country, including insecurity and others. But Schoolingyonda believes Nigeria, which prides itself as the giant of Africa, can attract education tourism by showcasing the country’s showbiz sector, which comprises music, dance and fashion, to the world. The Principal Consultant of Schoolingyonda, Mrs Funmi Modupe, described education tourism

By Dipo Olowookere On Monday, January 5, 2017, Nigeria will join others to mark the World Environmental Day 2017 with the theme ‘Connecting People to Nature.’ As part of activities lined up by the Federal Government to mark the day, there would be a sensitization walk and clean-up exercise on Saturday, June 3, 2017, in Abuja. Nigerians have been urged to be part of the walk tomorrow to show solidarity for a cleaner environment, especially when the globe was battling with climate change. On the D-day, there would be photo and art exhibition, public lecture, school debate and quiz competition,

By Adedapo Adesanya The federal government said the national power outage has been resolved. The nation was thrown into total darkness following the collapse of the national grid. The Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, while briefing State House Correspondents after the week’s virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by the Vice President, Mr Yemi Osinbajo, blamed pipeline vandalisation, grid collapses among other challenges as the reason for the recurrent nationwide blackout. “We have recovered the grid now. The grid is back and we are trying to get more megawatts to push on the grid. We have set

By Aduragbemi Omiyale The Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, is believed to have died in a military plane crash in Kaduna on Friday. The army chief was said to have flown to Kaduna on an official visit when the plane conveying him and other military personnel crashed landed near the Kaduna airport. The Director of Public Relations and Information at the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, confirmed the plane crash in a short statement this evening. However, he disclosed that the cause of the unfortunate incident was yet to be ascertained. “An air crash involving

The securities brokerage arm of Zedcrest Capital Limited, Zedcap Partners Limited (ZPL), has been adjudged the Best Brokerage Service firm in Nigeria at the 2019 FMDQ Gold Award held on Friday, November 8, at Lagos Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island. According to the organisers, Zedcap Partners was selected by members as the FMDQ Association member (Inter-dealer Broker) that provides the most exemplary brokerage service. FMDQ is Africa’s first vertically integrated financial market infrastructure (FMI) group, strategically positioned to provide seamless execution, clearing and settlement of financial market transactions across the debt capital, foreign exchange and derivatives markets, through the FMDQ Entities

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