The Minister of State for Environment, Alhaji Ibrahim Jibril, has called on relevant stakeholders to intensify efforts to address environmental degradation in the country. Jibril made the call in Abuja on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at a news conference on the 12th National Council on Environment (NCE) scheduled to hold between Oct. 29 and Oct….
If Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote’s gamble on a $10.5 billion, 650,000 barrels a day oil refinery that will be Africa’s biggest when it comes into operation in 2020, pays off, it could save Nigeria up to $12 billion on the importation of refined fuel, and grow his Dangote Group conglomerate to an energy giant…
Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates have reached an accord to cooperate in the area of solar energy and Artificial Intelligence for the mutual benefits of both countries. The agreement was reached during a meeting between the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu and the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Nigeria,…
Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday said the present administration has done better in power generation, transmission and distribution than the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did in 16 years of its administration. A statement from the minister’s media office said Mr Fashola made this known while speaking at the…
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Adamawa on Wednesday said it would limit supply of petroleum products to border areas to control the illegal exportation of products. Mr Ibrahim Chiroma, the Controller of Field Operations of DPR in Adamawa, made this known in an interview in Yola. Chiroma said that smuggling of petroleum products…
The Rural Electrification Agency says the 1.5 megawatts Independent Power Project (IPP) built for regular power supply to Sura Shopping Complex, Lagos and its environs is ready. Mr Ayang Ogbe, Director of Promotions of the agency, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos. According to Ogbe, the project called, “Energising Economies Initiative (EEI),”…
Oil fell towards $75 a barrel to its lowest since late August on Wednesday, pressured by concern that demand is weakening and supply ample even as U.S. sanctions loom on oil exporter Iran. In a sign supply is plentiful, industry group the American Petroleum Institute said on Tuesday U.S. crude stocks had risen by 9.9…
An anti-corruption group, Socio-Economic and Rights and Accountability Project, on Tuesday, got court’s leave to file for a mandamus order against the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over poor power supply in the country. The mandamus order is to compel Fashola to account for about N900bn sunk into the privatisation of the…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Edo Command, has intercepted a truck laden with 45,000 litres of suspected illegally-refined petroleum products. Mr Makinde Ayinla, the State Commandant of the NSCDC, made the disclosure to Newsmen in Benin on Tuesday. Ayinla said that the truck was intercepted at Aduwawa area on Benin/Auchi road. He…
Research findings have revealed that use of hate-speeches dominates social media platforms. Specifically, the findings indicated that ethnicity and religious-based dangerous speeches are topmost and more frequently used by social media users. The monthly-based ICT research conducted by Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) under the “Curbing Hate and Dangerous Speeches in Nigeria Project,…
