Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Friday, Dec 16th, 2016

  1. Nigeria’s environment minister, Amina Mohammed, has been confirmed as United Nations Deputy Secretary-General. 2. To support trade and investment, plans are underway for the dualization of the Abakiliki-Afikpo federal highway in Ebonyi State. 3. Nominees for the Africa

Donald Trump Officially Selects Adebayo Ogunlesi To Join His Economic Advisory Forum

US President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Nigerian-born lawyer and investment banker Adebayo Ogunlesi to his Strategic and Policy Forum. This follows the unveiling of the list of forum members this month by Mr. Trump’s Transition Team. The Strategic and Policy

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Thursday, Dec 15th, 2016

  1. Adebayo Ogunlesi has been formally unveiled by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as a member of his Strategic and Policy Forum charged with advising the President on economic matters. 2. MMM depositors are hopeful of getting back frozen funds

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Wednesday, Dec 7th, 2016

  1. President Muhammadu Buhari has formally announced that the 2017 Appropriation Bill will be presented to the National Assembly on December 14. 2. Swift Network and Cobranet have emerged winners from the bidding process of the sale of two

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Tuesday, Dec 6th, 2016

  1. The Federal Government has moved to stop the importation of 571,000 tonnes of foreign rice into Nigeria’s borders. 2. Huawei Technologies in partnership with Fortis Project Limited have commenced the construction of an Information and Communications Technology centre

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Monday, Dec 5th, 2016

  1. An agreement between the governments of Nigeria and Morocco, facilitated by Fertilizer Producers and Suppliers of Nigeria, FEPSAN and OCP, a Moroccan company is set to yield one million tons of fertilizer through local production and reduce the

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Friday December 2nd, 2016

OPEC member nations have assented to a plan to cut oil production by about 1.2 million barrels per day; oil prices have risen following the disclosure of the agreement. The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has unveiled the winners of

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Thursday, Dec 1st, 2016

  1. The Nigerian Communications Commission has halted plans to increase tariffs on data services on all network followed by an uproar from data consumers. 2. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma has announced that President

Nigerian Communications Commission Suspends Its Planned Data Tariff Hike

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has backtracked on its earlier announced plan to raise tariffs on data services provided by mobile network operators. The NCC now says it will hold consultations with stakeholders to determine what the best plan is

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Wednesday, Nov 30th, 2016

  1. Data subscribers accuse FG, NCC justifies 200% hike and workers foresee an increase in crime rate as Nigerians will begin to pay more for data services from December 1st. 2. The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) yesterday presented

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Tuesday, Nov 29th, 2016

  1. GSM data subscribers in Nigeria will pay for more data as from December 1, 2016, according to a directive issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission. 2. The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Monday, Nov 28th, 2016

  1. The Federal Government has backed the ban of the sale of foreign rice in Ebonyi State to encourage local production of the commodity. 2. Kaduna Electric is set to complete the ongoing and first phase of deployment of

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Friday, Nov 25th, 2016

  1. The Central Bank of Nigeria has established the National Collateral Registry to increase financing to MSMEs. 2. Fishing company, Atlantic Shrimpers Ltd has set up a 160-hectare shrimp farm in Lagos to hatch and harvest shrimps for both

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Thursday, Nov 24th, 2016

  1. Emirates Airline is offering Nigerians a 50% discount for all travels to Dubai for Economy and Business Class travellers. Offers are to be secured from now to the 30th of November and cover till May 31st, 2017. 2.

Lagos Has Canceled Its Monthly Environmental Sanitation. Here’s Why.

Lagos State’s long-standing three-hour environmental sanitation exercise which has been observed on the last Saturday of every month has been canceled. The State Government communicated its decision to do away with the monthly exercise through a statement issued by the

Nigeria Today: Top 5 News Stories, Wednesday, Nov 23rd, 2016

  1. Beginning from December 1, 2016, taxpayers will receive their withholding tax certificate in their emails within one week of payment, Mr. Babatunde Fowler of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has said. 2. The Cross River State government has

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