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The Naira, yesterday, appreciated to N362.08 in the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window despite the 49 percent decline in volume of dollars traded.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2vPkWQ9 Get more: Nigeria Business News

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has explained why Teleology Holdings has not taken over the ownership of 9Mobile. Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta spoke yesterday in a chat with The Guardian in Abuja. He cited … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

The programme Coordinator, Technology for Africa Agriculture Transformation [TAAT], Mr. Crist Akem, has revealed that Nigeria, and other African countries with keen interest in fish, soya beans, cassava, vegetables and cocoa production can now assess the $120 million seed money put … Read...

Prof Iyorwuese Hagher, a former Nigerian envoy, minister and Senator of the federal republic, in this interview with LEADERSHIP, offers solutions to the incessant farmers/herders clash.... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2KJtYDI Get More Nigeria Metro News

The federal government yesterday in Abuja approved N348.594 billion for the construction of Akwanga-Jos-Bauchi-Gombe road and another $150 million credit facility to aid federal government’s effort in polio eradication. Briefing journalists at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC)...

The Nigeria Police, in a report have absolved the Dangote Transport Company of any fault in a fatal accident involving one of its Howo trucks, which collided with an 18-seater Toyota bus belonging to the Gombe State Transport Company, at Gazok village, Farin-Lamba, Vwang District on Jos South...

The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, Ikeja of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 274,800 bottles of banned codeine syrup worth N1.2billion in Lagos. The unit which evacuated 49 cartons of tramadol capsules valued at N74million from a warehouse at Ajao Estate, also...

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has described the freezing of the state accounts by Economic and Financial Crime Commission ( EFCC) as part of political witch- hunt and victimisation being plotted against him, even as he said, such move will have a negative toll on the state. … Read more...

The Niger State Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Samuel Egwu, has disclosed that only 26,673 of the 198,038 who registered in the continuous voter registration exercise collected their Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs) in Niger State...

Stakeholders has advised that there is a need for the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry to be freed from government control and ensure that there is also full deregulation to make it attractive for private investors to build refineries to meet Nigeria’s needs and … Read more via...

CAIRO (Reuters) – A group of Egyptian students has designed a vehicle they say will battle rising energy prices and promote clean energy by running on nothing but air. Mechanical engineering students from Helwan University check the air-powered vehicle that they have designed to promote clean...

Justin Trudeau has defied Saudi Arabia’s demand to withdraw Canada’s calls for the release of jailed civil rights activists and insisted that Canada will continue to defend human rights around the world, suggesting that the escalating diplomatic row between the two countries is set to...

The national chairman of the newly Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC), Buba Galadima has said that his members will not leave the All Progressives Congress (APC) party for servants...... Read more via Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Naija news 24/7 – https://ift.tt/2m5c3xz...