Nigeria has begun talks with financial institutions in a bid to restructure its debt even as it has begun considering the loans being offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ease the food shocks countries are experiencing due to ...
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Adopt Tech Innovations, Lagos Govt Advises Horticulturists
The Lagos State Government has advised horticulturists in the state to adopt technological innovations that are environmentally eco-friendly in their activities. The General Manager of the Lagos State Planning and Environmental Monitoring Agency, Daisi Oso, gave this advice, according to ...
Read More »Peter Obi Unveils Presidential Campaign Council Today
The Presidential Campaign Organisation of Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, will be unveiled on Wednesday, The Nation has learnt. This is coming days after Obi launched an official website to promote his political campaign and solicit funds ahead of the ...
Read More »Nigeria’s Inflation To Average 19% In 2022 – IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is projecting that Nigeria’s inflation will moderate to an average of 19 per cent by the end of this year and further drop to 17 per cent by 2023 due to the tightening measures taken ...
Read More »British Monarchy: King Charles III To Be Coronated In 2023
The coronation of King Charles III will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2023 at Westminster Abbey, with the ceremony reflecting the modern-day role of the monarchy, it has been announced.The King and Queen Consort will be crowned in a ...
Read More »Expect More Flooding In North-Central, South-Eastern States – NiMet
The Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has said that States in the North-Central and South-Eastern zones of Nigeria should brace up for more flooding. The director-general of NiMet, Professor Mansur Bako Matazu, stated this on the sideline of the ongoing Hydro-meteorological ...
Read More »Illegal Pipeline: This Time, Unfailingly Heads Should Roll
NIGERIA’S systemic dysfunction and poor governance practices are once more on display with the exposure of a four-kilometre-long illegal pipeline in the Niger-Delta creeks. As revealed by Mele Kyari, Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, ...
Read More »2023: Wike Appoints 14,000 Advisers, 359 Liaison Officers
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has appointed 14,000 advisers for various political units in the state. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Special Assistant on Media to the ...
Read More »ASUU To Decide On Strike Thursday
The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will take a decision on its eight-month long strike on Thursday at an emergency meeting, even though the meeting may extend to Friday morning. Also, branches of the Union ...
Read More »ASUU Strike: University Tuition And The Reality Of The ‘Realities’
With Mooh Shamsuddeen This week, Sen. Chris Ngige (MoLEP) categorically stated that Universities must be given full autonomy; he meant that universities must be generating enough revenues for their operations. He lamented that ASUU always makes demands to the FG, ...
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