Breaking News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 19th October 2021
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 19th October 2021 on some of the nation newspapers .
Read also
EEDC meters over 92,000 customers
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has metered over 92,000 customers. This is in line with the metering scheme introduced by the Federal Government. Known as Meter Assets Provider (MAP), the scheme allows customers to obtain meters, pay back over the next 36 months and reimbursed in form of energy supplied to consumers.
Evaluating slow pace of modular refinery projects
Years after 13 firms were approved by the Federal Government to operate modular refineries and further assist in boosting production of fuel domestically, the refineries are yet to take off fully due to certain challenges, writes AKINOLA AJIBADE From paucity of funds, poor feasibility studies, poor technical and managerial skills, rising cost of technologies
Nigeria’s outsourcing space grows by $2m investment
Nigeria’s Eden Life has invested a total of $2 million in its core project to see chief executive officers and other busy individuals get some of their services conveniently outsourced. In a report last week, it announced that it had completed a $1.4 million seed round, led by UK-based LocalGlobe, along with participation from
Don counsels govt to translate policies, activities in indigenous languages
A call has gone to the federal and state governments to always embrace translation or of their activities through the people’s indigenous languages in order to give positive effects to information being disseminated to the citizenry, who are not proficient in English. The call was made by Dr. Abraham Ayodele Adeoye, a lecturer at
APC govt has mortgaged Nigeria’s future –Yaroe
The senator representing Adamawa South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Binos Daura Yaroe, in this interview with CLEMENT EKONG, speaks on borrowings by the Federal Government and the war against corruption What is your take on borrowings by the Federal Government and what does such portend for Nigeria? As a senator from
Ondo PDP: Furore over Mimiko’s planned defection
BABATOPE OKEOWO reports on the controversy over the planned defection of a former governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko and some of his loyalists from the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Former Governor Olusegun Mimiko and some of his loyalists in Ondo State have perfected plans to return
Ogah: Lobby’ll guarantee presidency for S’East
Hon. Chinedu Ogah is the member representing Ikwo/Ezza South Federal Constituency of Ebonyi State in the House of Representatives. In this interview with UCHENNA INYA, he speaks on the clamour for a president of Igbo extraction, chances of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general election and President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, among other
Unlocking ICT potential among Nigerian undergrads
Last week, undergraduate students from 28 tertiary institutions across the country, gathered in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for an Information Communication Technology (ICT) Innovation challenge that produced amazing results. CALEB ONWE reports The Innovation Challenge, themed ‘TechonDemand’ was organised by Financial Services Innovators (FSI) in collaboration with Nigeria Association of Computing Students(NACOS).
Pitch-dark Lagos airport!
Arriving in the country at night through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, gives you a false sense of illumination everywhere around the Lagos airport. Driving from the international wing of Lagos to Oshodi equally gives a first-time traveler of a false sense of electricity everywhere around the airport. The newly built expressway from
‘Nigeria unlikely to meet 1.61m bpd target’
Nigeria is not likely to raise its oil output in order to meet 1.61 million barrels per day target given it by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (0PEC), due to constraints in its plans, the Chief Commodities Economist at the London-based Capital Economics, Caroline Bain, has said. This was as the country managed
Read also
You can also check
