Nigeria’s permanent delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Ms Hajo Sani is seeking partnership between the organization and the country to further drive the renewed IT-focused agenda of UNESCO.  She disclosed this when she paid a courtesy visit on the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, outlining the key possible areas as...

... As stakeholders intensify call for increased domestic rice production A cross section of stakeholders including policy makers, scientists and farmers attending the annual review meeting of the NEWEST Rice project of the AATF has called for increased domestic production of rice on the African continent to meet the ever-increasing demand. The AATF rice project manager, Dr Kayode Sanni, said in...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has pledged the support and intervention of his office towards the resolution of any challenges inimical to broadband penetration in the country.  He made this known when the British deputy high commissioner, Mr Ben Llewellyn Jones paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja. The minister’s spokesperson, Uwa Suleiman, said the envoy...

It is no news that Nigeria is experiencing energy poverty as the capacity of electricity being distributed by the distribution companies to the populace is far less than the demanded. A rule of thumb posits 1,000MW to one million people. With an all-time national peak of 5,459.50 megawatts (MW) recorded as at October 28, 2020 for a population of...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said Nigeria spends a whooping sum of N60 billion annually on the repair and maintenance of vandalized oil and gas pipelines annually. He made this known during a town hall meeting on protecting oil and gas infrastructure today (July 5) in Abuja, saying statistics showed over 1,161 pipeline points were...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has exceeded its N36 billion projected revenue from spectrum licence fees for 2021, having recorded over N150 billion from this revenue source within the five months of the year. The figure represents over 400 per cent increase in revenue budget performance in respect of spectrum fees generated by the commission between January 1 and May...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami and the executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, have rejoiced with Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero on his coronation as the 15th Emir of Kano.  Danbatta, who hails from Danbatta Local Government Area of Kano State, paid homage to the emir, at the weekend, to congratulate him in...

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Mohammad Nanono, has said Nigerian cooperatives are actively involved in the value chain of agricultural development in the country. Nanono, who is also the supervising minister of the Cooperative Sector in Nigeria, made this known in a statement he personally signed to felicitate with Nigerian cooperatives on the 99th International Cooperative Day with the theme – ‘Rebuilding better together’ which...

Nigeria lies within a high sunshine belt and thus has enormous solar energy potentials. As power supply remains an issue in the country, the need to exploit the huge renewable energy resources we are blessed with cannot be over-emphasized. Experts have placed the mean annual average of total solar radiation between 3.5 kWhm–2day-1 in the coastal latitudes to about 7...

Nigeria is faced with the challenge of feeding its huge population of over 200 million people and ensuring food security on the other hand. Our agriculture has remained largely at subsistence level with little or no application of technology in farming as it is the case in many other countries of the world. Rice is one of the major and...