Nigerians Generate 2,500 Megawatts of Back-up Power

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said that Nigerian households and businesses generate 2,500 megawatts of electricity from petrol, kerosene and Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, popularly known as diesel. At a special session in the recently concluded 2015 Nigeria Oil and Gas, Conference in Abuja, David Ige, group executive director in charge of

FG Inaugurates New Textile Policy

THE federal government has inaugurated a national cotton, textile and garment policy targeted to realise $3 billion annually from textile exports. The policy is also expected to raise seed cotton production from 200,000 metric tonnes in 2003 to more than 500,000 MT by the end of this year. …

Events of the Year: Economy

NIGERIA’s economy in the year 2014 had a mixed bag of the good, the bad and the ugly. In the first quarter of the year the nation was greeted with the good news that the country has rebased its gross domestic product, GDP, from 1990 to 2010, resulting in the 89 percent increase in the estimated size of …

Telecoms Attracts N1 trillion Foreign Direct Investment

THE federal government has said that the Nigerian telecommunications industry attracted N1.08 trillion in foreign direct investment between 2011 and 2013. Omobola Johnson, minister of communications technology, who said this at the 2014 ministerial platform held by the ministry in Abuja, said the …