Nigeria Today: Top 10 News Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

1. Minister of Petroleum, Dieziani Alison-Madueke, has been appointed the President of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) at the 16th Ministerial meeting of the forum in Doha, Qatar. 2. The Nigeria Postal Service sector may have added about N289.7 billion to the economy within the last four years. The sector was able to deliver about 285 million mails across the country and created about 34,500 jobs directly and indirectly within the same period. 3. Firstmonie, the FirstBank mobile money services platform has been awarded the ‘Best Mobile Money Operator in Nigeria’ by the EFInA financial inclusion awards. 4. Twelve finalists have been announced in UBA Foundation’s National Essay Competition. This year, students were asked to write on the topic “Is Social Media a Safe Place to Make Friends?”  The 12 finalists emerged from the nearly 2,000 entries received from students who wrote the essay. 5. Barely two weeks to the close of 2014, Ericsson ConsumerLab in its annual trend report has released ten consumer trends, identifying the most important trends for 2015 and beyond. Accordingly, 80 percent, the report indicated believe that the smartphone will replace their entire purse by 2020. 6. Dr. Peter Jack, Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has said that the agency is determined to make the economy IT-based and IT-dependent. 7. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put the total capitalisation figure of the nation’s bond market at N9.95 trillion. 8. African business tycoon, Aliko Dangote, is increasing the size of his investment in an oil refinery, petrochemical and fertiliser plant in Nigeria by more than a fifth to $11 billion despite a looming slowdown in Africa’s biggest economy, reports FT. 9. The Federal Government says about N20 billion was spent on manpower development under the National Seafarer Development Programme (NSDP) in four years. 10. Globacom, in partnership with the Aviation Ministry, has equipped aviation workers with a special communications package that will enable them to communicate with their families at almost no cost.  

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This article was first published on 17th December 2014

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