The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc. Olamilekan Adegbite has called on state governments to create enabling environment for investments to thrive. He made the call yesterday in Abuja when the Katsina State governor, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari paid him a courtesy visit in his office, saying as the chief security officers of their various states, it was their...

The Federal Ministry of Environment (FMEnv) and stakeholders in the sector have validated the National Waste Battery Management Policy as part of government’s effort to ensure the environmentally sound management (ESM) of waste batteries resulting from the accelerating use of renewable energy solutions. Speaking during the validation exercise in Abuja, the Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, explained that the...

...First official commercial flight scheduled for August 12 Sequel to the successful completion of all five phases of the Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) application process, Nigeria’s Lagos-based value airline, Green Africa was today presented its AOC. Presenting the certificate at the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) headquarters in Abuja, the NCAA director-general, Capt. Musa Nuhu, said with the certificate, Green Africa was...

Health authorities in Guinea today confirmed a case of Marburg virus disease in the southern Gueckedou prefecture. This is the first time Marburg, a highly infectious disease that causes haemorrhagic fever, has been identified in the country and in West Africa.  A statement by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa said Marburg, which is in the same family as the virus that...

The director-general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi has described the web as the backbone of the digital economy. In his keynote address at the World Wide Web Day, a hybrid event with the theme – ‘The world wide web: Creating opportunities for the new African digital economy’ organised by the Centre for Cyber Awareness Development (CECAD), he said the web serves as a pathway to opportunities...

In a bid to strengthen and reposition the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) towards attaining global excellence and profitability, the management of the corporation has announced the promotion and redeployment of some staff to fill key vacant positions. A statement by the corporation’s group general manager, group public affairs division, Dr. Kennie Obateru on Monday, said Mr. Billy Okoye had been appointed the...

As governments prepare to meet in Glasgow for the climate talks, 350.org, an international environmental organisation, has said they need to recognize that no climate plan that does not include phasing out fossil fuels is a real climate plan. The organisation said this in reaction to the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, signed off by 195 governments, that...

The Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, has lauded the media for what he called factual and unbiased reportage of the progress being made in Ogoniland clean-up exercise. He gave this commendation in Abuja during a press briefing intended to update the media on three important recent developments within the environment sector which include the submission of Nigeria’s Revised Nationally...

The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD) is set to partner the China Railway Investment Group Limited (CRIG)in strengthening mining investment drive through proper harnessing of the verse mineral deposits across the various states of the federation. The Minister of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD), Arc. Olamilekan Adegbite, made this known when he received a team from the group...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced a trading surplus of ₦43.57b in April 2021 representing a 23.64 per cent increase over the ₦35.24b surplus it recorded in the previous month of March 2021.  This was contained in the April 2021 edition of the NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR), according to a press release by the group...