Importers To Pay N300bn Freight Rates On Foreign Rice To Nigeria, Others     Foreign rice importers will pay a total of N300 billion ($579. 75million) to shipping lines as freight rates by the end of this year. The rice importers, who are expecting their consignments from Thailand...

Senate Queries PEF’s N100m Interest On 2015 N34bn Fixed Deposit       The Senate has condemned the management of the scrapped Petroleum Equalization Fund for not remitting all the N182m interest that accrued from the N34bn in fixed deposit of some banks. The agency only remitted N82m without...

Buhari Directs TETfund To Increase Research Fund To N8bn     The President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) to increase research fund under the National Research Fund (NRF) scheme to the tune of N8 billion. The president gave the directive yesterday at the...

In 10 Months, Direct Remittances Drops By 62.4% To $1.96bn       Latest data by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revealed that total direct remittances from Nigerians in Diaspora dropped by 62,4 per cent to $1.96 billion in 10 months of 2021 from $5.21billion it recorded...

Reps Order Audit Of NNPC Assets, Liabilities, Probe IoCs Over N2.6trn Debts     The House of Representatives has called for an audit of the assets and liabilities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation before it is fully privatised. At the plenary on Wednesday, the House resolved to...

Retirees Rise By 27%, Collect N890bn From Govts, Private Sector     The total number of retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme has risen by 27 per cent in two years, data obtained by our correspondent have shown. Specifically, the total number of retirees rose from 291,569 in...