N12bn spent annually on airports, FG considers solar
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has disclosed that the Federal Government was spending N1bn monthly to power the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. He stated this Monday during the ministerial press briefing in Abuja to mark President…
Minimum Wage: Why we may not accept N100,000 — Organised labour
Organised Labour has told the Federal Government to perish any thought of offering N100,000 as the new minimum wage. It also asked the government to be serious with negotiations on the issue of workers’ wages, insisting that it used the…
NLC, CSO, others knock Nigerian Govt over N18 electricity tariff reduction
Nigerians, the organised labour, Civil Society Organisations and power sector experts have knocked the Nigerian Federal Government and Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, over the N18 downward review of electricity tariff for end-users under Band A. DAILY POST reports that…
Lagos-Calabar highway: Telcos fear shutdown as construction threatens cables
Barely 48 hours after Multichoice alerted subscribers to a three-day technical downtime, telecommunication companies have expressed concern over possible connectivity disruptions as construction advances on the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. While the DStv and GOtv owner acknowledged the anticipated impact…
Local firms, IOCs to bid for 12 onshore, 7 deep offshore oil blocks
Many indigenous companies and International Oil Companies, IOCs, have indicated interest in bidding for the 12 onshore and seven deep offshore blocks put forward for sale by the Federal Government. The companies have been reviewing the requirements, including technical competence…
Nigeria can leverage on renewables to industrialize— Rep. Sam Onuigbo
Sponsor of Nigeria’s Climate Change Act and former Member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Sam Onuigbo has stated that renewable energy can provide the energy needed by the country to fully industrialize. Onuigbo emphasized this during a series of…
Energy crisis: More problems for households, and others as cooking gas price surges
The price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, otherwise known as cooking gas has risen to N14,150 for 12.5kg cylinder, about 38 percent Year-on-Year, YoY, against N10,323.33 it sold in April 2023 last year. This is even as the price of…
Reps query Customs over non-submission of 3 years audited financial statement
The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has slammed Nigeria Customs Service over the non-submission of audited financial statements for the 2016, 2017, and 2018 financial years to the Auditor General for the federation. The Controller General of Customs,…
Tinubu does not make noise over security exploits – NSA, Ribadu
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu said the president, Bola Tinubu does not make noise over the breakthroughs recorded in the security sector since his assumption of office. Speaking on the security situation in the country during the…
Nigeria, PACJA, And CSDevNet Join Forces To Accelerate Agricultural Adaptation.
The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) in collaboration with the designated national platform in Nigeria, the Climate and Sustainable Development Network (CSDevNet), and the National Council on Climate Change (NCCC) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, hosted the Inaugural…