The Ministry of Science and Technology is partnering with UNESCO to establish a model Science and Technology parks in Sheda Science and Technology Complex (SHESCO), Kwali Abuja. The Minister of State for Science and Technology, Barr. Mohammed…
The Centre for Dry Land Agriculture, Bayero University Kano (BUK) has received $20 million World Bank grant for research and development of agriculture. Speaking at the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Dantata Foods and Allied…
OCP Group to commission multi-billion plant in Nigeria One of the world’s largest producers of phosphate based fertilizer, Morocco’s OCP Group, has announced that it expects the ammonia plant in Nigeria and the fertilizer plant in Ghana…
FCMB Pensions Limited, a subsidiary of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), has commenced the process of acquiring AIICO Pension, the two parties have disclosed. In separate filings at the Nigeria Stock Exchange, the duo Wednesday notified the…
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on Tuesday, expressed its readiness to capture 200,000 maize farmers across the country with a view to boosting maize production in Nigeria. The Director Head of Finance Development, CBN, Mr. Ihua…
Commodity exports from Nigeria to China, India, Spain, Netherlands and South Africa in the first quarter of this year hit N1.87tn, the National Bureau of Statistics has said. The NBS disclosed this in its Commodity Price Indices…
A total of 535 maize farmers in Anambra would receive farming inputs worth over N89 million under the Central Bank Anchor Borrowers Programme, for the 2020 wet farming season. Simeon Nwafor, the state chairman of Maize Association…
RunGas Group, a Nigerian gas infrastructure company pioneering the deeper penetration of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) across Africa, has expanded its operations in Nigeria by locating its new composite cylinder manufacturing facility in Alaro City, Lagos State’s new…
Ahead of the planned resumption of flights in Nigeria, domestic airlines, Air Peace and Dana Air on Wednesday carried out dry run and shakedown flights. Spokesman of Air Peace, Mr. Stanley Olisa said in a statement that…
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority is set to invest another N114 billion into the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI). This will increase total investment in the PFI to N221 billion since 2017 when the initiative was established. The…