United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has stressed the need for social dialogue on sustainable development, expressing her expectations regarding the role of media in bringing different constituents together to reflect on difficult questions such as on sustainable life style.…
Nigeria’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has recouped some US$3 billion in installment duty from oil and gas administrators in the nation, the organization’s official secretary revealed to Nigerian media. The administration of the West African nation, the greatest oil producer…
Dr. Natalia Kanem was appointed Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today by Secretary-General António Guterres. She holds the rank of United Nations Under-Secretary-General. Dr. Kanem, a Panamanian, is the Fund’s fifth Executive Director. She had been…
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, has reported the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Maikanti Baru, to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to take urgent actions on matters ranging from alleged illegal practices to insubordination. Mr. Kachikwu…
Ernest Akinlola has bee appointed as the substantive Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria’s first 4G/LTE-Advanced network. The board of ntel disclosed the announcement in a statement on Tuesday. Akinlola is a senior executive with over 20 years extensive experience in…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has pegged fine for electricity consumers who bypass meters at N450,000. According to NERC, financial sanctions ranging from N50,000 to N450,000 for meter bypass by power consumers have been drafted by it and have been…
WiFi could become obsolete in a few years as Chinese scientists have developed a faster way of transmitting data via LiFi. The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported the breakthrough by the scientists in creating full-color emissive carbon dots (F-CDs), which…
South Africa’s audit regulator will fast-track an investigation into global auditor KPMG over work done for business friends of President Jacob Zuma, the regulator’s chief executive told lawmakers on Tuesday. The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors’ inquiry into KPMG follows…
Parents of students attending public schools in the State of Osun have lauded the approach of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to the State’s education sector which they say has improved the lot of education since 2010. Reports from the State of…
With Agency report The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said a total system collapse of the national electricity grid was recorded on September. 28 at 8:03pm, resulting in temporary loss of electricity generation for the nation’s power grid. A statement…
