The pioneer Vice- Chancellor of Ahman Pategi University (APU), Pategi in Kwara State, Prof. Mahfouz A. Adedimeji, has said that his vision is to take the newly established private university to the future, as one of the best ivory tower not only in the country, but also globally. Adedemiji, however, anchored his vision for […]
Nigeria has lost N99 billion to subsidy on premium motor spirit (PMS) also known as petrol in the first 11 days of April, 2021. Data from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) sighted by New Telegraph at the weekend, which showed this, added that the landing cost for PMS rallied at N234 per litre in […]
Nigerian investment climate has manifested in the declining shares of a leading foreign investor in the cement sector, Lafarge Africa. In the past one year, local players in the cement sector have recorded reasonable profit while Lafarge managed to scrap together a yearly income of less than N30 billion. Acording to its financial statement […]
Taiwo Hassan with agency reports Global food commodity prices rose in the month of March, marking their 10th consecutive monthly increase, with quotations for vegetable oils and dairy products leading the rise, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has reported. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in […]
A don at the Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Prof. Agwu Ekwe Agwu has won a grant of $200,000 awarded by the Alliance for African Partnership (AAP) under the Partnership for Innovative Research in Africa (PIRA). The grant was announced during a virtual programme by the AAP. Co-Director, […]
African airlines’ traffic dropped 68.0 per cent in February compared to February two years ago. T his has been described as a setback compared to a 66.1 per cent decline recorded in January compared to January 2019. Consequently, February capacity contracted 54.6 per cent versus February 2019, and load factor fell 20.5 percentage points […]
Commissioner/Chief Executive Officer of the Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria (AIB-N), Akin Olateru, an aircraft engineer, has listed professionalism, cooperation, diligence as some of the criteria or essential tools needed to achieve the agency’s mandate of investigating aircraft accidents and serious incidents. Olateru stated this while seeking more support from workers to continue to deliver […]
Amid increasing social discontent in Nigeria in recent times, a scholar and former diplomat, Dr Nnamdi Onochie, has unfolded a blueprint to put Nigeria back to peace, prosperity and progress to survive as an entity. Onochie told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday, that the political class must close ranks […]
The Vice-Chancellor of Clifford University, Prof. Chimezie Allwell Omeonu, has expressed his administration’s determination to take the private university, owned and established by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, to the leading heights in Medical Sciences and Law. Omeonu, who made the pledge during the maiden pre-convocation press conference of the university, located at Ihie […]
A cross section of members of APC in Akwa Ibom State have commended the Interim Administrator/Chief Executive of NDDC, Mr Efiong Akwa for his high quality of leadership at the Commission. Speaking at a Stakeholders’ meeting in Uyo Monday, they noted that Akwa’s determination to reposition the agency for the benefit of the people […]