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Nigeria To Sell Unused Power To 4 Countries
About four West African countries are in talks with Nigeria to sell unused electricity to them. The electricity would be sold through a planned $570 million Northcore Power Transmission Line. This was disclosed by the acting Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and Chairman, Executive Board of the West African Power Pool…
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Nigeria Loses More To #TwitterBan (Part 1)
The Nigerian Government on June 4 announced – through the Ministry of Information and Culture– the indefinite suspension of Twitter’s operations in the country. “The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria,” the statements reads This suspension came after Twitter deleted a tweet by President…
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FG To Equip 40 Million Children With Reflective Jackets
The federal government of Nigeria has promised to equip 40 million schoolchildren across the country with reflective jackets, as part of its efforts to prevent accidents. The minister for state education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba made this known at the launch of the accident prevention initiative, organized by the ministry of education in Abuja on Thursday, May…
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Federal Government Approves N6.2bn For Power Projects
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N6.2 billion for the execution of various power projects across the country. The minister for Power, Sale Mamman made this known while briefing the State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to Mamman, contracts…
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Ghana Set To Deport 494 Nigerians For Violating Immigration Laws
Ghana has announced the arrest and repatriation of 507 foreigners who are citizens of Burkina Faso and Nigeria. David Fianko-Okyere, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and spokesperson for the Regional Police Command, made this known at an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Bolgatanga. The police spokesperson said the region had implemented a new…
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Nigeria Bags Below Average Score In New Corruption Perception Index
The latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) showed Nigeria scored 25/100 which is by one point less than its 26 points in the previous year as assessed by Transparency International (TI). This is an indicator that corruption in Buhari’s administration is perceived to have worsened within the last one year as the country dropped three places and…
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26 Million Or More Nigerian Children Lack Access to Water- UNICEF
UNICEF has said that more than 1.42 billion people, live in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability in the world and one-third of Nigerian children do not have access to enough water. The agency’s statistics revealed that 26.5 million Nigerian children (29 percent) of the nation’s children are “experiencing high or extremely high…
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Nigeria, Yemen, S.Sudan At Risk Of Famine
Nigeria, Yemen, S.Sudan At Risk Of Famine Millions of people living in Yemen, South Sudan, and northern Nigeria are at risk of famine in the coming months, two United Nations agencies warned. The groups said in a joint report that the existing acute food insecurity, heavy constraints on humanitarian access, conflict, economic blows, and climate…
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26 States Recorded No Foreign Investment In 2020
Twenty-six states in Nigeria pulled in no foreign investment in the whole of 2020, figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics has shown. The report on capital importation captured the total foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign portfolio investment (FPI) and other types of investments into the country in the year 2020. The total value…
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FAAC Disburses N604 Billion In November 2020
The sum total of N604 billion was disbursed by the Federation Account Allocation Committee to the three tiers of government in November 2020. This is according to the FAAC report for the month of November 2020, released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). According to the report, the monthly disbursement declined by 5.6 percent…