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NNPC Seeks $1bn In Oil Prepaid Deal To Revamp Refinery

NNPC
Repayment due in seven years The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has begun talks with trading firms to raise about $1 billion in a prepayment deal to refurbish its largestRead More

Analysts Project Nigerian Banks To Emerge Highest AfCTA Beneficiaries

African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
High electricity tariff will deny Nigeria benefits, say manufacturers With the commencement of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement on January 1, 2021, analysts and stakeholders have expressedRead More

To Pacify Labour, FG Summons Meeting Over Electricity Tariff Hike

Chris Ngige: the Federal Government vs the Nigeria Labour Congress
Gencos seek scrapping of NERC Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The Federal Government has summoned a meeting of the Committee on Review of Tariffs and Charges in theRead More

Labour, PDP, OPS, Others Kick as FG Reviews Electricity Tariffs

Nigeria Labour Congress
Tariff increases to continue till Discos cover costs, says NERC Analysts, the Organised Private Sector (OPS), labour and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday decried a review, by the FederalRead More

Analysts List Path To Economic Recovery, Growth In 2021

Economic recession
Seek privatisation, commercialisation, sales of moribund assets Financial and economic experts have advised the federal government to look inward in its resource mobilisation activities in the new year. They alsoRead More

FG Expects To Take Delivery Of COVID-19 Vaccines January Ending

COVID-19 vaccine
The Federal Government has given assurances that the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines will arrive the country latest by the end of January. National Coordinator of the Presidential Task ForceRead More

Amid Global Crisis, UN Plans Food Systems Summit

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, António Guterrez
Amid increasing global food crisis particularly, among poor nations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, António Guterrez is to convene a UN Food SystemsRead More

Buhari: Insecurity Setting Nigeria Back At Critical Points

President Muhammadu Buhari
Says his government won’t shirk responsibility of protecting lives, property Atiku blames ‘lazy leadership’ for Nigeria’s woes President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in his New Year broadcast decried the level ofRead More

Coronavirus: NCDC Confirms 1074 Cases In Nigeria

COVID-19
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) it confirmed 1074 new cases of COVID-19 in the country on Friday, January 1st, 2021. This takes the total number of confirmed COVID-19Read More

FG Selects 161 Firms For Marginal Oilfields’ Final Bid Round

Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR)
The Federal Government, through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), yesterday announced that 161 successful companies had been shortlisted to advance to the next and final stage of the bidRead More