Members of the House of Representatives at plenary Tuesday, passed through second reading a Bill seeking for an act to create a framework for the regulation of franchising and to guide the relationship between franchisors and franchisees in Nigeria. The Senate bill, which was sent to the House for concurrence, was opposed by minority lawmakers.The…
Though his intention is to contest for the seat of Senate President in the 10th Senate, Senator Sani Musa (Niger East), on Tuesday, said that the North Central will not settle for anything less than Deputy Senate President in case none of the contestants from the geopolitical region made it the powerful position in June….
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in partnership has offered $350,000 to the Federal Government towards developing water transportation of goods and facilitation of intral-African trade. In a statement on Monday, Afreximbank explained: “The Charting project was made possible by the grant from Afreximbank in recognition of the importance of inland waterways transportation and by extension,…
As the federal government prepares to completely deregulate the downstream sector of the Nigerian oil and gas industry in the coming months, stakeholders in the sector have told Nigerians to be ready to pay as much as N750 per litre of petrol at filling stations. This was the highpoint of stakeholders’ interventions during an online…
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said efforts were ongoing to avert the planned industrial action by the Nigerian Labour Congress. To this effect, he said, Tuesday’s meeting of the NLC’s National Executive Committee would focus on plans to address the current cash crunch by the Central Bank The Minister said…
The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, has been suspended on Tuesday amid crisis in the party leadership after the just concluded general elections. The PDP in Benue State had last week announced the suspension of the embattled National Chairman. This is as a Benue High Court, has restrained Ayu from…
Jigawa and Gombe have been rated most business-friendly in the Subnational Ease of Doing Business Report for 2023, ahead of others including the Federal Capital Territory. The report, which is the second edition, released by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PEBEC, scored Gombe 7.15 and Jigawa 6.79 to emerge as the states providing the…
The Kano State Governor-elect, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, popularly known as Abba Gida Gida is inviting his teeming supporters, members and senior stakeholders of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) to the presentation of certificate of return to all candidates who won election at the Saturday 18th polls. The Idependent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in…
The Nnamdi Kanu led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been ranked as the 10th deadliest terror group in the world. IPOB is a separatist group proscribed and declared a terrorist organisation in 2017 by the federal government. Its leader Nnamdi Okwu Kanu is so revered in Igboland that when he issued orders his followers…
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Hajiya Saratu Umar, has reiterated the federal government’s effort to partner with the Japanese government to explore areas of business partnerships to deepen the investment drive of both countries. Saratu stated this yesterday when the Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Matsunnaga Kazuyoshi, paid a courtesy visit…
