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COVID-19:124m people challenged with hunger – UN report
UN has disclosed thatCOVID-19 has crippled the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as between 119 to 124 million people have been pushed back into poverty and chronic hunger. SDGs Report 2021,…
Nigeria faces six-year delay in achieving SDGs, says IMF
Nigeria faces a six-year delay in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, according to the International Monetary Fund. The Managing Director, IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, said this on Tuesday in a statement titled…
Nigeria can be world’s No. 1 oil, gas nation — NLNG
Managing Director, Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Mr Tony Attah has said Nigeria can become the world’s number one nation in oil and gas if deliberate actions are taken to…
FIRS Makes Historic Tax Haul, Rakes In N650 Billion In June
The Federal Inland Revenue Service has raked in over N650 billion in June 2021, the highest revenue realized in a single month since the COVID-19 pandemic started and the assumption…
Southern governors oppose 30% share of profit for exploration of oil and gas in the basins
L-R: Governors – Dr. Douye Diri (Bayelsa); Prof. Placid Njoku, Imo State Deputy Governor; Mr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu); Mr. Emmanuel Udom (Akwa Ibom); Dr. Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti); Mr. Gboyega Oyetola…
NDIC to partner BPSR in enhancing innovation in service delivery
By Ngozi Onyeakusi---The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Mr. Bello Hassan has expressed the readiness of the Corporation to partner with the Bureau of…
MTN to boost stock market liquidity by N375bn
The move by the MTN Group to offer 14 per cent of its per cent shares in MTN Nigeria to Nigerians will boost its stock market liquidity by N375bn, analysis…
US property losses hit $68bn in 2020: Xactware & PCS
By STEVE EVANS---Insured property losses in the United States hit over $68 billion in 2020, as 19 catastrophe events of more than $1 billion in claims each hit the country…
MASSOB takes Buhari to ICJ
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) said it has concluded plans to sue President Muhammadu Buhari at the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICJ)…
Universal Insurance posts N637.9m profit in 2020
Universal Insurance Plc has released its audited financial statement for the year ended December 31, 2020 with 82% increase in group gross premium written to billion from billion in 2019.…
