NDDC Plans $27.3bn Road, Power Projects   The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is seeking partnerships to finance power and road projects worth about $27.3bn in the oil-rich region of Nigeria. It disclosed this in a July 2023 document titled, “A Sea...

Food Imports Rise By 122% As Deficit Hits N4.9trn   Despite continuous government efforts to shore up food production in Nigeria through various intervention programmes, the country recorded foods trade deficit worth N4.92 trillion between 2018 and 2022. Available data shows that...

$3bn Afrexim Bank Loan: NNPCL Followed Due Process   Facts have emerged that contrary to reports due process was followed in securing the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) in the $3 Billion Afrexim bank Loan. The $3 billion loan deal, which...

Significance of BRICS And It's Expansion, by Lawal Sale    BRICS is a bloc of some world's leading emerging economies. BRICS is coined from an acronym for Brazil (B), Russia (R), India (I), China (C) and South Africa (S). The coinage was...

NIPR Elects Ike Neliaku, Prof Dandaura President and Vice President   Members of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), have unanimously elected Dr. Ike Neliaku unopposed as its new President at the end of the Institute’s...

CISLAC Builds Capacity of Kaduna Stakeholders on Early Warning, Response   The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, said that Early Warning is key in the provision of effective and timely information through conflict signal identification, outbreak anticipation and impact mitigation...