The Philippines and Nigeria have agreed to enhance the existing mechanism of economic cooperation, as well as on aquaculture and anti-drug trafficking, a senior Philippine foreign official said here Friday. Philippine Foreign Undersecretary Enrique Manalo met on Wednesday with the…
EFCC can’t “freeze” public treasuries (vanguard)
While the nation is still smarting from the illegal siege to the National Assembly Complex by armed and hooded men of the Directorate of State Services, DSS, which led to the summary dismissal of its Director-General, Lawal Daura, another Federal…
Nigeria’s inflation drops to 11.14% in July
Nigeria’s headline consumer price index extended deceleration (which started in 2017) to the eighteenth consecutive month. Headline inflation was 11.14 percent year on year ( y/y ) in July, according to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report released Wednesday. The…
Nigeria needs new technologies to address power, metering challenges – Buhari (Vanguard)
President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that Nigeria was in dire need of new engineering technologies to address its power supply and metering challenges. Speaking at the 27th Engineering Assembly of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, COREN,…
Corruption threatens petroleum sector, economy– Osinbajo
Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s acting President, Friday attributed the woes in the petroleum sector, and entire economy to corruption, insisting that it was ready to take the fight against corruption further in ensuring a safe business environment for investors. This came…
Nigeria’s power sector loses N300bn in 7 months – VP’s Office
Nigeria’s power sector in seven months of 2018 has lost N300 billion due to insufficient gas supply, distribution, and transmission infrastructure. A report obtained from the Office of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, according to Vanguard, stated that “estimated amount lost…
“This is not about me,” says Saraki after ‘parliament takeover’
Bukola Saraki, Nigerian Senate president held a #WorldPressConference Wednesday to address Tuesday’s invasion of the National Assembly by armed security agents alleged to be operatives from the State Security Service. The conference which lasted about an hour with the presence of principal…
Buhari restricts issuance of visas to foreign engineers
The federal government of Nigeria Tuesday announced the restriction of foreign engineers seeking to take up engineering roles in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed this while speaking in Abuja at the 27th Engineering Assembly of the Council for the…
What 2baba says about DSS NASS invasion
Innocent Idibia, better known as 2baba has reacted to the recent besiege of the national assembly on Tuesday by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), which is receiving a lot of condemnation from different quarters, amid sack of…
We are having children by choice — Lagos housewives (Vanguard)
Family planning is changing fortunes for many housewives in Lagos, according to findings on this year’s World Population Day, WPD – July 11 – with the theme: Family Planning is a Right, some married women told Good Health Weekly that…