By Joy Odigie The Benin Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (BENCCIMA), has commended the ongoing survey of business establishments in the country. Mr John Imalingmhe, Director-General of the chamber, said the National Business Sample Survey (NBSS) being conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) was a welcomeContinue Reading

By Mustapha Yauri The Federal Government has restated its commitment to partner with Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria on fiscal policies formulation. Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning made the declaration in Zaria on Saturday. She said the partnership would enhance the shaping of the NigerianContinue Reading

By Rabiy Sani-Ali Kano State Government said it has initiated a process to enact forestry law to check indiscriminate felling of trees and protect the environment. Dr Kabiru Ibrahim-Getso, the Commissioner for Environment, stated this while inspecting the monthly environmental sanitation exercise on Saturday in Kano. Ibrahim-Getso who decried theContinue Reading

By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed the release of the abducted students of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State. The president, in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday, commended the nation’s security and intelligence agencies and the government of Niger state forContinue Reading

By Rita Iliya The abducted students of Government Science College, Kagara in Rafi Loval Government Area of Niger, have regained freedom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that 42 persons were abducted by suspected bandits on Feb. 17. NAN reports that the students who arrived Minna amidst tight securityContinue Reading

By Abujah Racheal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 600 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 155, 076. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Friday. The agency also registered 11 COVID-19 deaths, raisingContinue Reading

The United States on Friday slapped a visa ban on 76 Saudi individuals in what it calls the “Khashoggi Ban”. This followed a U.S. intelligence report accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of approving the 2018 gruesome murder of exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who announcedContinue Reading