Nigeria

Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has revalidated safety of aircraft in the operations of United Nigeria Airline (UNA) and granted wet-leased airplane approval to return to skies following the embarrassing episode in Asaba, penultimate Sunday. The clean bill of health, sequel to investigation by the apex regulatory body, was granted with recommendations to improve communication…

Owing to a heavy national debt inherited by the present administration, which at the end of June 2023 stood at N87.38 trillion, and a N9.18 trillion deficit in the N27.5 trillion 2024 budget presented by President Bola Tinubu last which with N7.83 trillion of the deficit to be financed by new borrowings, taking the total debt to over N95 trillion, experts have predicted a steep rise in the debt profile due to expanding fiscal deficit and reducing revenue generation.

Profitable prospects for deep sea mining in Nigeria’s coastal waters topped presentation of the Commonwealth Secretariat to the Nigerian delegation led by Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Oladele Alake on a courtesy visit last week.

Nigeria’s continued dependence on importation of petroleum products remains a concern despite awarding over 57 refinery licences in the last 18 years and an additional five recently. To many, the country appears to be comfortable with the practice despite the effect it has on the economy.

For a nation groaning under huge debt burden, inflation, rising poverty, reactions continued to trail Nigeria’s large delegation at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), yesterday, as some Nigerians, including the presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, urged President Bola Tinubu to make Nigeria great by competing with China in production; not in the size of contingents to events.

.Don’t cage Nigeria into one party state, 200 lawyers warn Tinubu, judiciary Northern Democratic Alliance (NDA) has alleged discovery of a plan by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to destabilise the North. According to the group, the plan is to weaken the North socially, politically and economically, to make it unable to challenge him in 2027.…

Governor Abba Yusuf has uncovered a warehouse in Sharada Industrial Estate of the state, where food items meant for palliatives were diverted. Leading government officials and journalists to the isolated warehouse, Governor Yusuf went round the facility where supposed hijacked food items were kept amid drum of chemicals.

Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), yesterday, stated that INTELS Nigeria Limited waived $193 million as part of efforts to resolve stalemate on pilotage contract with the Federal Government.

The rising case of infertility among couples in Nigeria can be curtailed, if endowed Nigerians come to their aid financially to enhance their access to Advanced Fertility Care (AFC) like In vitro Fertilisation (IVF), a lecturer of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G), University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Prof. Lukman Omokanye, has said.

The Governor Agbu Kefas administration in Taraba State has brought relief to Tarabans with the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage.

No fewer than 11 persons were killed, at the weekend, in Pukah community of Mangu Local Council of Plateau State.

Thousands of temporary J-Teach teachers under Jigawa State government have embarked on peaceful protest and disrupted the aptitude test organised by the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) for the recruitment of 6,000 teachers. Chairman of the board, Prof. Haruna Musa, reportedly escaped death in one of the centres at Federal University Dutse (FUD). The…