The federal government has decided to sell three ageing presidential aircraft so as to gather funds to purchase a new one. News360 Nigeria gathered reports that the decision will also reduce excessive spending on fleet maintenance for the aircraft which are currently unused. The latest development comes as the House of […]
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NERC Approves N21bn For Procurement Of Electricity Meters At Zero Cost
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Friday announced the approval of N21 billion for the procurement of electricity meters for Band ‘A’ customers, explaining that the purchase and installation will come to end-users at no cost. In an order signed by the commission’s Chairman, Sanusi Garba, and the Commissioner in charge of […]
Why Petrol, Diesel Prices May Not Drop Despite Dangote Refinery — Experts
Experts have indicated that the commencement of production at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery may not lead to a substantial decrease in petrol and diesel prices. Despite the refinery’s strategic location in Lagos, Nigeria, the input costs for its operations are heavily import-dependent, and the volatility of foreign exchange rates is […]
CAF Announces Dates Of The Next AFCON And WAFCON
CAF Executive Committee announces dates of CAF TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (“AFCON”) Morocco 2025 and CAF TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations 2024 Published: Friday, 21 June 2024 The Confédération Africaine de Football (“CAF”) Executive Committee (“EXCO”) today announced the dates of Africa’s most popular and competitive football competition, […]
Dangote Refinery’s Electricity Surpasses Nigeria’s Eleven Years Capacity
Dangote Sets Another Record as Refinery’s Electricity Surpasses Nigeria’s Eleven Years Capacity Nigeria added barely 760 megawatts of power to the national grid in eleven years; in contrast, the Dangote refinery doubled that amount and produced 1,500 megawatts in a shorter amount of time. Nigeria has the capacity to generate […]
Otedola Buys ₦18.9bn Shares To Regain Position As Biggest Shareholder In FBN
Femi Otedola, billionaire businessman and chairman of FBN Holdings, has regained his position as the majority shareholder of First Bank. According to corporate filings on the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) on Thursday, Otedola now owns 9.41 percent shares in the bank. This became possible after he purchased the group’s shares valued […]
Naira closes flat at official market as dollar sales decline by 17.84%
The naira, Nigeria’s currency on Wednesday closed on a flat note with a marginal loss of 0.02 percent at the official foreign exchange (FX) market, following a decline in the dollar sales by market operators. At the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM), FX trading resumed on Wednesday after a […]
Nigeria, U.S firm target record Nigerian spaceflight
The Nigerian government and the Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) Delaware, a United States-based company, are set to launch the first human spaceflight in Africa, to send the first Nigerian to space. Uche Nnaji, minister of innovation, science and technology disclosed this in Abuja at the signing of the […]
Keyamo, NCAA pivotal to Nigeria’s 71% score in aviation security audit – Achimugu
Michael Achimugu, the Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), has said that Festus Keyamo the Minister of aviation and aerospace development and Chris Najomo, Acting Director of General Civil Aviation were pivoted to Nigeria’s 71.04 per cent score during the recently concluded International Civil […]
External reserves seen rising further on inflows
Experts say external reserves will increase rapidly as Nigeria begins to see some foreign inflows. Nigeria‘s foreign reserves have risen by 2.19 percent month-on-month, following streams of dollar inflows from international financial institutions. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revealed that external reserves grew to $33.159 billion as […]