Trade Deficit Increases To $2.51bn After Border Reopening         Nigeria’s exports declined while imports increased in January despite the opening of the land borders. Nigeria’s trade deficit rose from $1.69bn in December 2020 to $2.51bn as of the end of January 2021 despite the reopening of the...

PEF Plans To Subsidise Cooking Gas Transportation       The Petroleum Equalisation Fund (Management Board) on Sunday charged oil marketers to start moving Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, through the expanding rail network across the country. PEF also announced moves being made by the agency to equalise...

Panel To Probe NPA's Suspended MD For Inauguration Today       The Federal Government may on Monday (today) inaugurate a panel to investigate Nigerian Ports Authority under suspended managing director, Hadiza Bala-Usman. Economic Confidential had earlier reported that President Muhammadu Buhari was probing the alleged non-remittance of N165.32bn...

A Rejoinder on Call On Pantami to Resign, by Mohammad Dahiru Lawal         It was in July 2019 when the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) convened a maiden Social Media Influencers Summit in Kano, where media managers, experts, influencers, online publishers and entrepreneurs from...

Port Harcourt Refinery Rehab: We Can’t Afford to Fail – NNPC … Says Project to Generate 3,000 Jobs as Construction Work Kicks off The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has kicked off construction work in the Port Harcourt Refinery rehabilitation project with a firm commitment not...

How We Enrolled 210,000 Nigerians On ICT Courses With 600 Interventions – Dr Pantami       Agencies under the Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy has enrolled over 210,000 Nigerians on Information and Communication Technology Courses and undertaken over 600 interventions to build the capacity of citizens...