•Kenneth Okonkwo Labour Party (LP) chieftain, Kenneth Okonkwo, has criticised the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the management of the foreign exchange market, saying that any forex management that does not translate to economic prosperity and stability can’t be termed successful. “I do not think the CBN understands what it is doing,” Okon...
One week into the new electricity tariff regime, information flowing from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has indicated that over 20 percent of consumers categorized as Band A do not have prepaid meters, a major factor in determining actual usage for the purpose of bill settlement. Consequently, the consumers would be mad...
The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) in Kano has lamented over how some unqualified contractors get contracts worth millions of naira. Acting Federal Road Maintenance Engineer in the State, Ali Abdu, lamented over this when he appeared before the House Committee on FERMA, on Tuesday. He briefed the lawmakers on the activities of the age...
•Marine cable As good as technology is, the lack of it can turn the world upside down. LUCAS AJANAKU writes on the undersea cable cut, which has paralysed internet services across parts of Africa, reports The Nation. As of December 2022, according to statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), total fibre optics deployment ac...
•Tinubu A former Lawmaker who represented Oron Federal constituency, Akwa Ibom State, in the House of Representatives, Hon. Peter Umoh has expressed the optimism that the federal government could run the affairs of the country without borrowing. Umoh who made the assertion during an interview last week in Uyo, stressed that it was a matter [&h...