KIA Motors, Korea International Corporation Agency (KOICA) and Kogi State are to partner on reviving Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) in the state. The partnership follows a meeting between Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Bello Yahaya, KOICA Country Director/Regional Representative, Sook Hyun Park, and KIA (Dana Motors Limited) Vice President, Olu Tikolo, on a possible […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, has identified the need for residents to adopt a willful approach to the payment of taxes as a means of addressing fundamental challenges confronting the state and accelerating development in all sectors and sections. Speaking at a sensitisation workshop on 2017 Water Technology and Environmental Control Exhibition and Conference […]
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the issuance of promissory notes for the settlement of debts owed local contractors worth N740 billion. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, gave the hint while addressing newsmen after the Federal Executive Coucil meeting, adding that debts to GENCOS, DISCOs and state governments stood at N193.69 billion. […]
The Postmaster General of the Federation, Mr Bisi Adegbuyi, has called for the amendment of postal laws to separate regulation from operation to enhance the development of the postal sector. He made the call on Wednesday in Abuja in his address at the Senate Public Hearing on the Nigerian Postal Service Act 2004. He said […]
Some pensioners of Edo State Government on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest at the Benin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged non-payment of their pension entitlements. In a statement, Spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said the protesting group came under the aegis of “Most Aggrieved Pensioners”. According […]
Commercial airline operators, Medview, Tuesday expanded its domestic passenger services with the commencement of flight from Ilorin to other cities in the country. Addressing journalists at the Ilorin International Airport, the Chief Operating Officer, Engr Lukman Olanrewaju Animasahun said the expansion of route to Ilorin was informed by the desire to provide efficient and effective […]
A free-speech group on Tuesday sued U.S. President Donald Trump for blocking Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump account, arguing the practice violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit, brought by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University in New York and joined by seven individual Twitter users, claims Trump blocked a […]
Microsoft Corp on Tuesday announced an initiative to bring high-speed internet to millions of rural Americans through unused television airwaves in a long-term bet for user growth. The Redmond, Washington, technology company proposed using spectrum typically reserved for TV stations to broadcast high-speed internet to underserved U.S. locations. To start, Microsoft will commit to a […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it has started an aggressive enforcement of the agency’s codes of corporate governance to address customers dissatisfaction. In an address at the 80th edition of the Telecoms Consumer Parliament (TCP) in Abuja on Tuesday, Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, said that the enforcement was necessary […]
Nigeria must not borrow more to fund its budget and should instead raise money it needs by other means, Finance Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun said on Tuesday, while calling into question planned foreign loans of $2 billion from lenders like the World Bank. Africa’s largest economy is in its first recession in 25 years, and […]