The director-general of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba, has tasked staff of the agency on dynamic approach to biosafety regulation. He told them at a biosafety refresher course organised in collaboration with the Programme For Biosafety Systems (PBS) in Abuja to realize that the country must ensure the safety of its people and environment. "It is a...

The World Health Organisation has said about 1.2 million non-smokers die from exposure to tobacco smoke every year and that it is making efforts to encourage 100 million people to quit smoking. WHO country representative to Nigeria, Dr. Walter Kazadi Mulombo, made this known at a briefing to commemorate this year’s World No Tobacco Day with the theme ‘Commit to...

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said it is currently considering equity participation in a number of private refineries in the country in line with a Federal Government policy directive.A statement by the corporation’s spokesperson, Dr. Kennie Obateru, said the move was in line with government’s directive which stipulated the mandatory participation of the corporation in any privately-owned...

The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has commissioned four new economy projects spread across the states of the federation as part of ongoing efforts to promote digital inclusion in the country. He said the projects, the 10th batch in the series, were executed by the ministry and parastatals under its supervision as part of efforts in...

The executive director of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Olusegun Awolowo says Nigeria loses $10 billion annually in capital flight to the importation of honey and its by-products. He disclosed this at a technical session on enhancing global market access for Nigeria's honey and honey by-products in Abuja.He said lack of adequate production of honey in the country is costing the economy a...

…As Guinea Bissau visits NCC on benchmarking tour   The executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has shared his experiences on some of the regulatory models, approaches and best practices being implemented by the commission in promoting a stable telecoms sector and accelerating digital inclusion in Nigeria. Danbatta shared these experiences when he received a delegation...

The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, says low content of science and technology in agricultural practice in Africa is responsible for its low productivity and yield, and inability to compete globally. In his speech at a national stakeholders' sensitization and awareness workshop on animal biotechnology application and regulatory perspectives convened by the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA)...

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has alerted Nigerians on Microsoft, a world-renowned multinational technology company’s uncovering of a wide spread malicious email campaign undertaken by the hacking group- NOBELIUM. The cybercriminals leveraged the legitimate mass-mailing service to masquerade as a US-based development organisation and distribute malicious URLs to a wide variety of organisations especially government organisations, non-government organizations...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced a ₦39.85 billion trading surplus for the month of February 2021 representing a massive 314.24 per cent leap from the ₦9.62 billion surplus it recorded in January 2021. This is contained in the February 2021 edition of the NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR). Trading surplus or trading deficit is derived after...

… Submits interim updated NDC Nigeria has submitted its interim updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as part of requirements to access finance for the mitigation of measures of the NDC. Submitting the report on behalf of the Federal Government, the Minister of Environment, Dr Muhammad Mahmood Abubakar said Nigeria was...