By Our Reporter The African Development Bank (AfDB) has been shortlisted for the Africa investor (Ai) Infrastructure Project Developer Awards 2016. It has been nominated in the category of Ai African Project Development Financier of the Year. Other nominees in…
By Our Reporter Civil society organisations, students unions and the organised labour have said they planned to organise a peaceful protest in Port Harcourt against federal government’s inability to solve the perennial fuel scarcity in the country. A statement…
By Our Reporter The World Bank has promised to mobilise 25 billion dollars in private financing for clean energy by 2020 to fight climate change in developing countries. This is contained in a Climate Change Action Plan, released by…
Kemi Busari As part of the measures to end violence against children in the state, the Cross River state Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare has organized a two-day multi-sector workshop in the state capital, Calabar. The workshop was…
The Federal Ministry of Health has promised to set up a committee to advise the Ministry for the implementation of Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD’s) recommendations for enhancing access to healthcare services for citizens with disabilities in Nigeria. The…
The federal government may sell 40 percent of a new national oil company within 10 years of its creation, if a draft law by the National Assembly scale through. At least 10 percent of the company will be divested within…
Professor Osinbajo said that the plan articulates six thematic strategies that would constitute the short-term priority of the government over the next 12 months. In his speech at the Nation’s Forum On The Economy in Lagos State, south-west Nigeria, the…
The second edition of the Sub-Sahara Africa Upstream Oil and gas summit and exhibition in Ghana has thrown up issues relating industry challenges in Africa. The 3-day event is on the theme “preparing for the challenges of changing times”. The…
The second Nigeria-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) roundtable for the year 2016 has reviewed the prospects of repositioning Nigeria’s insurance industry to make viable, efficient and sustainable. It brought together key players in the sector, to critically assess the state…
