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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has commended National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) for promoting various projects and initiatives to boost Nigeria’s digital economy drive. The Yoruba monarch gave the commendation when he received NITDA's director-general, Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi, yesterday in Abuja. He expressed satisfaction with the way NITDA is engaging Nigerians, particularly in the area...

The development of any nation depends largely on its ability to provide infrastructure as platform for transformation and development. Most developing countries have consistently remained in same stagnant position of backwardness due to inadequate infrastructural facilities which have continually inhibited progress and development at all levels. Several countries in Africa are currently in this pathetic situation due to lack of...

The Federal Government has urged other African countries to come up with a well thought out position that should strengthen the use of biotechnology for animal agriculture. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, made the call at the recent national stakeholders' workshop on animal biotechnology and regulatory perspectives organized by the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) in...

Nigeria is currently in the process of revising its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) which is an integral part of the Paris Agreement it signed to reduce its Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. Signed in 2015, Nigeria’s ambiguous 20 per cent unconditional and 45 per cent conditional emission reduction has come to the end of its lifespan.  In revising the NDCs...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is very passionate about implementing the master plan of National eGovernment which he described as a blessing to all Nigerians. He stated this at a webinar with the theme ‘Secure e-government’ in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the National Information Technology...

…Deal to yield over $780m in immediate revenues to government  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its production sharing contract (PSC) partners - Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo), Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (TEPNG), Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (EEPNL) and Nigerian Agip Exploration (NAE) - have executed agreements to renew oil mining lease (OML)...

The Federal Government has begun an assessment of the first made-in-Nigeria helicopter as part of the process to meet international requirements and standards before its formal launch. Officials of the Ministry Aviation yesterday carried out on-site assessment and evaluation of the helicopter manufactured by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI). The executive vice chairman of NASENI, Prof. Maiwalima...

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Bill into law. Stakeholders in the agricultural sector had described the absence of the PVP, which protects the intellectual property of varieties developed by breeders and farmers as the bane of investment and progress in the sector. While reacting to the presidential assent, the chairman, House Committee on Agriculture and Research...

President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned extraordinary summit of Heads of State and Government of Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that other sub-regional leaders participating in the summit include the presidents of Niger Republic, Mohamed Bazoum and Central African Republic, Prof. Faustin Touadera Also at the summit are Lt....

The director-general of theNational Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi, has charged Information Technology ecosystem stakeholders to disrupt the status quo in the industry. He made the call during a meeting with the IT stakeholders in Lagos during his three-day working visit to the state. “Come up with new business model, ways to change things, new organizational structure and...