Transition Monitoring Group (Nigeria), (TMG Nigeria), a civil society election observation organisation, has commended INEC and other stakeholders on Saturday’s governorship election in Osun. Its chairman, Mr Auwal Rafsanjani gave the commendation in the group’s post-election statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja. Rafsanjani commended INEC for complying with the provisions of the Electoral Act, especially as regards improvement in exclusivity for persons with disabilities. He also commended INEC for efficient election logistics arrangement which saw to the early deployment of officials and materials to polling units. TMG Nigeria also praised the media and other stakeholders for their efforts in ensuring peaceful,…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled the new Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Limited), affirming that the company is mandated by law to ensure that Nigeria’s National Energy Security is guaranteed. Speaking at the historic occasion at State House Conference Centre, the President said Africa’s largest National Oil Company (NOC) would also support sustainable growth across other sectors of the economy as it delivers energy to the world. At the event, which featured a Special rendition of the Theme Song ”Energy for today, Energy for tomorrow, Energy for Everyone’‘ by an Ensemble, the president recounted how God had used him…
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday visited the Ministry of Industries, Trade and Investment. During the visit, her second visit to the ministry after she became WTO DG discussed the importance of trade relationships in Nigeria and Africa with a focus on fisheries subsidies and local vaccine production in the country. According to her, fisheries subsidy is key to Nigeria. To ensure improved output, she said a revised draft agreement for new global rules aims to curb harmful fishing subsidies and curtail post-harvest losses. On vaccine production, the WTO boss is seeking more…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) will unveil Senator Kashim Shettima, the running mate to its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday. This is coming five days after the ruling party postponed the unveiling with no reason given for the shift in date. Shettima was meant to have been presented to party members at the APC national Secretariat on July 14, but an APC official told reporters the event has been moved forward. Tinubu had on July 10 announced the ex-governor and Senator representing Borno Central as his running mate in the 2023 general elections. Nine days after, the ruling party issued a…
The Tinubu Campaign Organisation (TCO), says choice of Sen. Kashim Shettima as Sen. Bola Tinubu, APC 2023 Presidential candidate’s running mate, is not to ignore religious concerns. Mr Bayo Onanuga Director, Media and Communication of the TCO, explained in a statement on Tuesday that the choice was also not to ignore ethnic sensitivities of Nigerians. He said the campaign organisation had followed the heated debate that the choice of Shettima as APC vice-presidential candidate had generated in the country because he shared same religious faith with Tinubu. “Religion or ethnicity was far from the calculations of the APC and its presidential candidate,…
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has withdrawn the accreditation of Abia state Polytechnic, Aba over no-payment of staff salaries and allowances for over 30 months. The Head, Media Department, NBTE, Fatima Abubakar said this in a statement issued in Kaduna on Tuesday. Abubakar said that the accreditation was withdrawn because the polytechnic had not shown any commitment to offset the arrears and ensure regular payment of salaries. She explained that regular payment of salary was one of a key component of the board’s normative instruments for quality assurance in the Polytechnics, Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions. She also…
The European Commission proposed 500 million euros ($511 million) fund on Tuesday to help member states restock their arsenal amid the Russian invasion. EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said “this is urgently needed, national stocks have been run down.” The commissioner said the fund aims to incentivise joint procurement among EU countries over the next two years while paving the way for long-term common defence spending in the European Union. EU member states vowed to step up defence investment after Russia attacked Ukraine in a major shift of European defence policy following years of budget cuts and hesitation to cooperate closer.…
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s drug, Enhertu, has been approved by the European Union for treatment of adult patients with an aggressive form of breast cancer. AstraZeneca said on Tuesday that Enhertu coud be used as a monotherapy in cases with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. The treatment was jointly developed and commercialized by AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) gave its endorsement late in June. The EMA said Enhertu was effective at shrinking the tumour in patients with metastatic breast cancer or breast cancer that could not be removed by surgery. dpa
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said that a total of 8.693 million Megawatts-hour (MWh) of electricity was generated in the third quarter of 2021. NERC made this known in its Third Quarter Report 2021 posted on its website on Tuesday. The regulatory agency said: ”the total quarterly generation in 2021/Q3 was 8.6million MWh. “This is a decrease of 211,903.73MWh (-2.38 per cent) compared to the total generation of 8,905,673.76MWh in 2021/Q2.” According to NERC, the total generation of Shiroro plant increased appreciably by 113,216MWh (+107.58 per cent) during the period under review. The commission, however said those of Egbin, Okpai and Geregu…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says 57.07 per cent of electricity consumers in the country were still on estimated billing as at September 2021. NERC made this known in its Third Quarter Report 2021 posted on its website on Tuesday. The document showed that only Ikeja, Benin, Enugu and Port Harcourt electricity Distribution Companies had metered over 50 per cent of their customers as at the period. The huge metering gap for end-use customers, according to NERC, remains a key challenge in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). It added that a total of 288,431 meters were installed in 2021/Q3 as…