Business

By: Highcelebritysquard    With the Nigerian population expected to reach 230 million by 2025, food security is of considerable importance. Today, the demand for food appears to be outstripping supply as a result of reduced productivity combined with post-harvest waste. To reverse this trend, we need innovative solutions to modernize our farming methods. We must

By: Highcelebritysquard      … Mobile court sentences two environmental offenders Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) said that, from next Thursday, both Ladipo and Oyingbo markets would be shut down till further notice, for reckless waste dumping, refusal to pay for waste services, and general poor waste management situation at the markets. LAWMA’s Managing Director/CEO,

By: Highcelebritysquard      The Director General of the National Identity Management Commission, Aliyu Aziz, says the commission has so far captured 89 million persons in the ongoing nationwide National Identity Number enrolment. The DG disclosed this on Thursday at a press conference in commemoration of the 4th Identity Day, which is to be celebrated

By: Highcelebritysquard      The Industrial Training Fund, an agency of the Federal Government, has said the rates of unemployment and underemployment in Nigeria have been on a daily increase, describing this as a looming time-bomb that must be stopped. The Director-General, ITF, Joseph Ari, who disclosed this in Abuja, urged the private sector and

By: Highcelebritysquard    Raw Materials Research and Development Council The Raw Materials Research and Development Council has said Nigeria spent $264m on the importation of shea-butter and castor oil in 2021. Speaking at a strategic sectoral dialogue session on the future of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria in Lagos on Tuesday, the Chairman,

By: Highcelebritysquard      The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and the Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines of Morocco, on Thursday, signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the commencement of construction of the 5,600km Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline. NNPC said the much-awaited Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project officially commenced following the signing of the MoU

By: Highcelebritysquard      File copy: Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company. The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company has said it raked in the sum of N5.2bn from electricity bills collection, from the targeted N7.4bn in August 2022. The new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of PHED, Dr Benson Uwheru, disclosed this during a media

By: Highcelebritysquard      The management of Dangote Cement Plc has said the expected 100 N5m star-prize winners in its on-going ‘Bag of goodies national consumer promo, season 3’ will be offered the opportunity to be cement distributors if they wish. This was disclosed in a statement by the company in Ilorin, Kwara State, at

By: Highcelebritysquard        The National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday said Nigeria‘s headline inflation climbed to a new high of 20.52 per cent in August on a year–on–year basis. This was 3.52% points higher compared to the rate recorded in August 2021, which was (17.01%). This is contained in the federal statistics office’

By: Highcelebritysquard        Nigeria’s life insurer, FBN Insurance Limited, has appointed of Mr Tunde Mimiko, as its new managing director/chief executive officer, following the retirement of Mr Val Ojumah. It said in a statement that Mimiko succeeded Ojumah who had been managing director since the inception of the business and grown the FBN