Fed Govt Receives 75 Bids For Road Concession     A total of 75 firms have submitted bids to serve as concessionaires for 12 federal roads that are mapped out for concession by the Federal Government. Bid documents submitted by the companies as well as the names of...

Last Man Standing: Alhaji Aminu Dantata @ 90, by Munzali Dantata     Aminu Dantata was one of the eighteen surviving offsprings of Alhassan Dantata when I was growing up in the 1960s. Most of them lived on the same street founded by their father, around 1910,...

Reps Allege Sabotage, Grill Officials Over $120m Abandoned Ports’ Scanners         The House of Representatives’ Committee on Customs and Excise, on Monday, grilled top officials of the Federal Government over the abandonment of 22 cargo scanners that cost taxpayers $120m at the seaports, airports and land...

Govs Fret As CBN Insists Budget Support Repayment Starts May       State governors again on Thursday requested that the repayment of their loans, especially the budget support, which ought to start this month be deferred. But the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, emphasised...

FEC Okays N10.2bn Projects For Water resources, Aviation, Presidency         The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N10.168 billion for the execution of projects under the ministries of Water Resources, Aviation as well as two agencies under the Presidency. The virtual FEC, which was presided over by...

Price Of Petrol Highest In Plateau, Kano, Abia In April     The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), yesterday, said the highest average price of petrol in April was recorded in Plateau, Kano and Abia states. In its ‘Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch for April 2021’, the...