Ganduje changing the face of Kano metropolis with Dangi Flyover network
Transport ease is underway in Kano metropolis following the emerging delivery of N4.5bn Dangi Flyover and Underpass in Kano city. A recent tour of the flyover and underpass network showed that construction activities on the contract awarded by Governor Umar…
Minister reassures early delivery Enugu airport runway after inspection
Users of Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu are becoming shoulder high following renewed assurance given by the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, after weekend inspection of the ongoing rehabilitation of the airport runway. Senator Sirika was accompanied by…
W’Bank says Boko Haram, herdsmen limited mileages in agric sector
..As analysts see visa on arrival as deadly window for foreign herdsmen Latest World Bank report on Nigerian economy has painted a rather bleak picture of movement without motion in the nation’s quest for agro-economy. This is palpable fears are…
200 Ghana Cedis now N12, 000 as Eco currency rattles ECOWAS
During her last Ministers’ meeting of the ECOWAS economies in Abuja, it adopted Eco as the regional currency which all the Fancophone economies, who had hitherto ceded their currency nomenclature to their colonial master, France (CFA), also adopted. Business Hilights…
Lack of deadline for new NBP 2020-2025 Committee worrisome
Fresh loophole of no delivery deadline has been observed in the Tuesday, December 17, 2019 inauguration of the new National Broadband Plan (NBP) (2020-2025) development committee set up by the Federal Government. Industry experts had expected setting of NBP document…
Kano: Travelled traders’ still divided on suspension of ban on mixed use of tricycle
The recent suspension of proposed banning of male and female seating on the same tricycle in Kano though was greeted with jubilation in the on the eve of new year, Kano based businessmen and women, who had travelled for yuletide…
Minister’s response to PREMIUM TIMES Report on REA silent on key issues
Following last month’s suspension of the former Managing Director of Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Damilola Ogunbiyi, by the Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, he was directed to hand over to the next most senior officer in the agency. Consequently, the…
Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest man ends 2019 with $4.3bn richer
…Moves up to 96th from previous ranking of 103rd billionaire in the world African richest man Aliko Dangote has significantly moved up in the World billionaires’ list as he emerged 96th richest person in the world, with an estimated worth…
MTN, others studying US claims of paying protection money to al Qaeda, Taliban
South Africa’s telecoms giant, MTN Group and other global deep pocket multinationals in the United States of paying protection money to militant Islamist groups in Afghanistan including al Qaeda and the Taliban. The allegations included also of providing material support…
CCT consumes another as FG appoints new Acting Registrar-General for CAC
Following the order issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on Dec. 24, on the immediate suspension of the Acting Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Ms Azuka Azinge for not declaring her assets, Federal Government Tuesday, appointed…
