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Over 5 Million Pupils In 19 States Now Feed Free -Presidency

In furtherance of its goal to tackle poverty and hunger, and to create jobs for Nigerians in line with its inclusive growth plan, the Buhari administration’s National Home-Grown School Feeding (NHGSF) Programme is now in 19 states across the federation. They include Anambra, Enugu,...

Senate Probes Total Over $16bn Egina Project

The Senate Committee on Local Content has asked Total Upstream Nigeria Limited to provide it with details of the local content in the floating, production, storage and offloading of the Egina project being constructed by the oil major. When completed, the project, which includes drilling...

Senate Passes Nigerian Automotive Industry Development Plan Bill

The Senate on Thursday passed the Bill on Nigerian Automotive Industry Development Plan, as part of efforts to transform the automotive industry. This followed the clause by clause consideration of the bill by the lawmakers during plenary in Abuja. Presenting the report, Chairman, Senate...

BPE Gets Commendation On Transactions In Telecoms Sector

Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has commended the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) for its reform and privatization transactions in the country, especially in the telecom sector which has deepened and transformed the Nigerian economy. Speaking when he received the Director General of the BPE,...

Nigeria Needs $35 Billion To Sustain Economic Growth

The Managing Director, Infrastructure Bank, Adekunle Oyinloye, has said that Nigeria needs $35 billion per annum for five years to sustain a robust economic growth. Mr. Oyinloye, said this in Abuja while presenting a paper on “Economic Indices and Relationship with Infrastructure Development” at a...

Nigeria Loses N6trn To Fire Incidents

Properties worth a whooping N6trillion has been lost to outbreak of fire incidents in Nigeria within the last five years, Chairman Senate Committee on Interior, Emmanuel Andy Uba ( APC, Anambra South) has said. Uba, who made the disclosure on Friday in Abuja in his...