January 25, 2020

Airtel Gets New Number Range, 0904

Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced that it has added 0904 number series to its numbering range, following the approval of the industry regulator, Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC). The telco says the new number series, which brings its growing numbering range scheme to nine, will throw up an amazing opportunity for more Nigerians […]

January 25, 2020

Nigeria ‘ll end North-East insurgency, just like civil war — Buhari

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari declared on Friday that Nigeria would soon see the end of the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. Buhari told the European Union (EU) Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic, who visited him in Abuja that Nigeria had faced challenges in the past and managed to overcome and forged on. ”If we […]

January 25, 2020

$200m Cabotage Fund: Banks to hold Shipowners accountable

As plans for the disbursement of the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund (CVFF) gathers momentum, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said lending institutions will be empowered to hold any beneficiary shipowner accountable for every kobo collected as facility. The CVFF stands at about $200million. He spoke at a meeting in Lagos on Thursday organised […]

January 25, 2020

Fed Govt to streamline livestock programmes, policies

The Federal Government has said it will streamline the livestock development programmes and policies for effective management of the sector, adding that it would further assist in addressing conflict with farmers. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono, who made this known on Thursday in Abuja during the launch of Advancing Local […]

January 25, 2020

CBN cautions against rising debt

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has cautioned the Federal Government on its borrowing. Addressing journalists at the end of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in Abuja on Friday, CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, cautioned that “that public debt was rising faster than both domestic and external revenues.” Members of the MPC advised the federal […]

January 25, 2020

Lasser fever: Panic as Edo, Bauchi record 179 fresh cases

MORE states embarked on drastic measures on Friday to check the Lassa fever outbreak in some parts of the country from spreading. Edo State said 76 residents tested positive to the virus out of 175 suspected cases while Bauchi confirmed three new cases with 15 people under observation. “A total of 76 suspected cases of […]