ASHENEWS reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has disclosed that the country spends N2 billion for the importation of wheat annually.
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
An online streaming platform, Spotify, says John Legend, D’Banj, Banky W had emerged artistes with the most playlisted songs during the 2023 Valentine season.
The Nigerian government said it had started the process of declaring 111 historical sites in the country as National Monuments.
The Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (SUREWASH), Kaduna Implementation unit, will provide portable drinking water and sanitation services to 7.5 million residents of the state.
The Lagos State government is prosecuting a surrogate father, Bernard Uzi, for allegedly defiling his nine-year-old daughter.
The Network of Women with Disabilities (NWD), FCT Chapter, has urged the Federal Government to domesticate all the regional and international instruments on disability rights that it has signed and ratified.
Nigeria’s former Minister of Health, Prof. Muhammad Pate, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer for the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi. Pate, whose appointment was confirmed at an extraordinary meeting of the Gavi Board, in Geneva, on Monday, will take over from Dr. Seth Berkley on August 3. He was selected following a yearlong recruitment process personally overseen by the Chair of the Gavi Board, Prof. José Manuel Barroso. Commenting on the appointment, Barroso said: “Pate stood out in a field of world-class candidates. With his knowledge and experience of both national immunisation programming and international emergency response and…
ASHENEWS reports that economists and other stakeholders have observed that the Pan-African conglomerate, the Dangote Group, is creating investment opportunities in Africa through numerous businesses and philanthropic forays.
The first indication that FIRS could cross the N10 trillion mark came in September last year when it collected N7.5 trillion in tax in nine months to surpass its entire 2021 figure of N6.4 trillion.
A recording studio has been donated to the campus radio of the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna by Founders of BuyPower Nigeria Limited, Benjamin Ojima Ufaruna and Leonard Oladipo Ashehinde.