UNN beats Unilag, 2 others to produce first 5-seater electric car in Nigeria
Barely six months after the Director General, National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Mr. Jelani Aliyu, challenged five Nigerian ranking institutions to make proposals on how to produce electric cars in the country, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) has…
Too much money from agro export in the 70s, oil boom killed tax regime—Fowler
…Gives reasons why VAT may be hiked sooner in Nigeria The Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler, has given deeper insights on why tax payment compliance in Nigeria is sounding strange to many Nigerians. Besides, he…
Analysts worried on why NCC don’t give data on unique internet users
Over the years and mainly since Nigeria joined the global community of data users, the telecoms regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has been economical with the real unique internet subscribers in its periodic release of industry statistics. Unique internet users…
IMB rubbishes NIMASA claims, says Nigerian waters remain centre for sea crimes
Contrary to recent claims by the leadership of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) that Nigerian territorial waters have started observing calmness in pirate attacks, new report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has averred that Nigeria is…
WEPSS, INTELS Nigeria’s flagship CSR scheme lifts 80 Nigerian women
Leading indigenous oil and gas logistics group, INTELS Nigeria Limited, recently graduated a set of 80 women under its flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Women Empowerment Programme Scheme Synergy (WEPSS), in Onne Free Trade Zone, Rivers State. Business Hilights recalls…
Gas flaring: FG adopts NGFCP report on SoQs evaluation exercise
Fresh drive has been given to the ongoing effort to commercialize gas flaring in oil-rich Niger Delta as the Federal Government has approved the Statements of Qualification (SOQs) Evaluation Report presented by the Inter-Ministerial Committee of the Nigerian Gas Flare…
Disocs owe Transitional Electricity Market over N263bn in 4 years
More details have emerged on why the needed progressive investments in the nation’s electricity sector had reduced to snail speed in the last couple of years, thus fueling regular collapse of national grids and nationwide blackouts from time to time….
RUGA fallout: S’East Govs ban conveying herds of cattle by foot, except trailers
Hereunder unedited are the resolutions of the South East Governors’ Forum (SEGF) on the vexed issues of the suspended RUGA Programme and implementation of National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) at the meeting held on July 9. 2019. 1. The attention…
