Stakeholders in Nigeria’s dry port export sector have listed multiplicity of agencies, poor infrastructure and bureaucratic challenges in the processing of approvals for export as major challenges undermining operations at the ports across the country, They made the assertion at the unveiling of study report on the operation of dry ports in Nigeria organized by the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), saying exporters were losing multi-billion naira annually due...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has refuted a report by an online platform which alleged that mobile telephony subscriptions in the country grew by 3,000,000 new subscribers in the first quarter of 2021 despite the suspension on the registration of new subscribers which took effect from December 9, 2020 and was only lifted in May, 2021. A statement by the NCC director of...

The leaders of the female youth wing of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have underscored the need for the disaggregation of party membership during the e-membership registration exercise to get accurate data of young women in the party. The youths drawn from the 36 states of the federation and the FCT gave the recommendation when they paid a courtesy visit to the PDP National Working Committee at...

The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) has sensitised staff of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) on facts about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and their products currently available in Nigeria. At the opening session of a training workshop organized by the agency in collaborating with its partners, the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) and Program for Biosafety System (PBS), the NABDA...

The management of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has expressed shock over the assassination of the head of one of its institutes, Prof. Samuel Ndubuisi. Ndubuisi, the managing director, Scientific Equipment Development Institute (SEDI-Enugu), was shot dead by unknown gunmen on his way back home from the office along the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Enugu, yesterday. A statement personally signed...

The Federal Government and stakeholders in the agriculture sector are strategizing to streamline the implementation of the National Gender Policy on Agriculture to reduce the vulnerabilities of women. At a workshop in Abuja, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Ernest Umakhihe, said the 11 point-National Gender Policy objectives would enhance food security, charting a...

A former director-general of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Prof. Seidu Mohammed has called for the deployment of space technologies in addressing the security issues around the Gulf of Guinea.   Speaking to Science Nigeria, Mohammed, who contested Kogi State gubernatorial election of 2019 said the Gulf of Guinea was a prospective landmark for the development of West Africa if only the opportunities could be...

The Federal Government has said the implementation of the National Agricultural Data Management Information System (NADMIS), will strengthen the data information system for policy, planning and tracking of the Sustainable Development Goals in the agricultural sector. The permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Ernest Umakhihe, stated this during the national validation of country data...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, has said the Federal Government has approved an emergency communications centre (ECC) for Zamfara State to support the fight against insecurity in the state. He made this known when he received the Zamfara State governor, Alhaji Muhammad Matawalle, in his office in Abuja. “An emergency communications centre (ECC) has been approved...

Farmers and traders have thronged the fifth edition of Arahah Market organized by the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) to showcase their farm produce and other indigenous made-in-Nigeria products. Participants in the market were drawn from the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, FCT Ndi Igbo Ruling Councils, Aba, and other traders from environs. Arahah,...