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...

Nigeria Records N5trn Non-oil Exports       More than N5 trillion non-oil export cargoes were ferried out of the country in the fourth quarter of last year. The goods were shipped out of Lagos ports and formed part of the total export goods valued at about N6 trillion. Customs...

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,...

NNPC’s Trading Surplus Increases To N39.85bn       The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, on Thursday, announced a N39.85bn trading surplus for February 2021, representing a 314.24 per cent rise from the N9.62bn surplus it recorded in the preceding month. The NNPC disclosed this in its February 2021 edition...

NNPC Seeks To Acquire 20% Stake In Dangote Refinery       The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has expressed interest in purchasing a 20 per cent minority equity stake in Dangote Refinery, Lagos, reputed to be Africa’s biggest oil refining facility and the world’s largest single-train plant. The...

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...