Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 08/13/2020 - 19:12
NIGERIAN is facing the prospect of further economic crisis as its crude oil sales to Europe are being threatened by increased US exports which are being sold at discounted prices this making their shipments more attractive to buyers.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 08/13/2020 - 18:43
GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu has announced plans to launch a radical agricultural expansion programme in Lagos State centred around the coastal city of Badagry that will increase food self-sufficiency to 50% from the current 20%.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 08/13/2020 - 17:56
MEMBERS of Nigeria's Northern Governors Forum (NGF) have asked security agencies to investigate the claim that one of their members is sponsoring the Boko Haram insurgency raging across the northeast of the country.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 08/13/2020 - 17:25
FORMER Nigerian president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has called on younger Africans to participate actively in politics and force out the older generation urging them not to vote for anyone over the age of 80.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 08/13/2020 - 17:04
PLAYERS of the Cross River State-owned Nigerian Women’s Football League side Pelican Stars blocked the entrance to Governor Ben Ayade's office yesterday in Calabar to protest the fact that they have not been paid for the last 14 months.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 08/13/2020 - 09:01
Ayo Akinfe
[1] All of Nigeria's 774 local government areas will be responsible for providing waste disposal services, fire services and ambulance services within their domains
[2] Local governments will be funded internally by the charging of a local tax, which will be augmented by a federal grant representing no more than 10% of their total expenditure. As a principle, all recurrent expenditure must be met by internally generated revenue
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 08/12/2020 - 18:34
ANAMBRA State indigenes in the US have said that they will not invest in the state unless the right calibre of person is elected as governor when gubernatorial elections are held in November next year.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 08/12/2020 - 17:58
AMERICAN health officials have expressed scepticism over the efficacy of the new Covid-19 vaccine Russian scientists claim to have developed saying that there is not enough available data from its clinical trials to convince them it works.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 08/12/2020 - 16:54
TAXI and car hire fares across Lagos State are going to rise significantly after the government increased taxes in the sector by 10% to enable it recover some of the losses incurred as a result of the coronavirus lockdown.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 08/12/2020 - 16:20
NIGERIAN government aviation officials and private airline Air Peace have reached an agreement under which the company will reinstate some of the 100 pilots it recently laid off as part of a cost-cutting exercise in a bid to avoid nationwide industrial action.
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