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President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday -today, January 21 – met with Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and a delegation of Ogoni leaders at the State House in Abuja. The meeting, which commenced at approximately 2:37pm with diverse groups – traditional rulers, religious leaders,

The National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) has praised the industry as a viable revenue centre, saying  it can inject up to $3.7 billion or more into the Nigerian economy if given adequate attention, especially from the government. Addressing a

About 572, 309 smallholder crop farmers in Kano State have benefited from the Kano state Agro-Pastoral Development Project, KSADP, crop value chain intervention in the past four and half years. The State Project Coordinator, Kano State Agro-pastoral Development Project, KSADP, Ibrahim

Hearing in a suit filed by Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE over a bid to stop issuance of oil import licenses to some oil marketing companies suffered a setback on Monday at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The matter,

The Federal Government has announced its pursuit of global mining partnerships to strengthen the country’s economy. In a presentation at the Future Minerals Forum (FMF) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she highlighted Nigeria’s vast resource wealth, Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, Minister of State

President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has called for accelerated efforts to increase food production and reduce the cost of food in Nigeria. Adesina spoke on Saturday – yesterday, January 18 – at the inauguration of a soybean plant

The Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Mr Wamkele Mene, has reaffirmed his commitment to reducing and eliminating intra-African and investment barriers. Speaking at a Round-Table on Nigeria’s Implementation of the AfCFTA Protocol in Abuja on Thursday –

Attracted by the bulk-purchase agreement incentives being offered by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, more oil marketers in the country are jostling to be listed as part of the agreement. The bulk-purchase agreement, the petroleum marketers reasoned, offers a guaranteed price stability

The Enugu State Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Industrialisation, on Thursday, kicked off a two-day capacity-building program for extension agents, lead farmers, and relevant ministry staff on computer appreciation, digital record-keeping, and Microsoft Office. The training aims to equip farmers and extension

The Afreximbank has said that it will support African airlines with 25 aircraft via a leasing subsidiary, to promote competitiveness. Mrs Helen Brume, Director Project and Asset-Based Finance of Afreximbank, disclosed this at the close of the Airline Economics Growth Frontiers Global