UN calls for greater regional cooperation to ensure sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific The Sistem Monitoring Imunisasi Logistik Secara Elektronik (SMILE), an innovative platform to digitize the vaccine cold chain run jointly by the Indonesia Ministry of Health since 2018, is being used to monitor roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the extension of the deadline for National Identity Number, NIN by two months. Justice Maureen Onyetenu granted the extension while delivering a ruling in a fundamental right suit filed by legal practitioner, Monday Ubani against the federal government, the Attorney General of the Federation, Nigerian Communications […]
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has voted to retain the monetary policy rate at 11.5 percent. The announcement was made on Tuesday by the CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele at the end of a two-day meeting at the CBN headquarters. The committee also retained the liquidity ratio at 30 […]
By Foster Obi The synergy between heads of maritime agencies was again strengthened when the Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh paid a working visit to the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman at the NPA headquarters Marina, Lagos. Pix shows L-R: The Executive Dir., Engineering& […]
By Foster Obi Nigeria’s leading Electricity Distribution Company, Ikeja Electric has scored another first in the electricity sector, after bagging three latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certifications ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 in recognition of its effective implementation of Occupational Safety &Health, Environment Management and Quality Managementprocesses. In addition, the DisCo also […]
Transparency International (TI) says an estimated $5 billion stolen from Nigeria is frozen in accounts in foreign countries. This was disclosed on Monday in Abuja during a media workshop organised by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), local chapter of TI in Nigeria. Vaclav Prusa, CISLAC policy advisor, said Nigeria is responsible for the […]
Power distribution companies rejected a total of 5,452.96 megawatts of electricity in one week amid the outcry of blackout in various locations across the country by consumers. Latest industry figures on the Discos load summary obtained from the Transmission Company of Nigeria in Abuja on Saturday showed that the power distributors rejected this quantum of […]
The Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to completing the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery, saying it would be functional within 18 months. “Port Harcourt Refinery will work, and certainly within the next 18 months,” the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva said in an interview aired on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. The […]
The Clerk to the National Assembly, Olatunde Ojo, has constituted a nine-member committee to fashion out modalities for the implementation of the national minimum wage and other demands of the parliamentary workers in order to avert the proposed strike by the workers. The National Assembly chapter of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria had last […]
The Federal Government is to forge ahead with its plan of spending $1.5bn on the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery despite criticisms that had trailed the move. Officials of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation stated on Friday that it had been the intention of government to revamp […]