In an effort to ban the importation of barite and promote its local production, the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, has commissioned a barite processing plant in Cross River State.
Speaking at the inauguration of the barite processing plant, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, noted that its location in Ugaga, Cross State was…
Elon Musk on Friday unveiled Linda Yaccarino as the new head of Twitter, the social media app he purchased from the founders in April 2022.
After a series of live trials and errors on the app, Elon Musk on Thursday hinted that he had hired a Chief Executive Officer while he…
Google has released a new AI-powered chatbot called Bard, which is designed to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Bard is an experimental conversational AI service that is powered by Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications).
LaMDA is a large language model…
At least 2000 students from 12 Lagos State Government schools and seven private schools in the state will on Thursday participate in the second edition of the Lagos Children Empowerment Conference.
A non-governmental organisation, Faith Iyowuna Ikekhide Foundation, disclosed this on Wednesday.
The convener, Faith Ikekhide, said the conference with the theme, “Destiny Recovery” would be at…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited needs to roll out massive investments in terms of oil and gas to meet the demand for these commodities, Africa’s richest man and Chairman, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said.
He said the national oil firm should invest…
The United Nations is to partner the federal and state governments, as well as multilateral and unilateral donors to mobilise $83.16m (N38.3bn, at the official exchange rate of N461/$) for Nigeria’s agriculture sector development from 2023 to 2027.
Already, the UN through…
The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, has stressed that biometric data capture for registered artisanal and small-scale miners will lessen the rate of illegal mining and smuggling in the country.
This was disclosed in a statement from the ministry signed by the Head of Press Department, Funmi Imuetinyan.
The statement quoted the Minister of Mines and Steel…
Nigeria’s borrowing from the World Bank has reached $14.34bn as of March 31,
This was an increase from the $13.93bn debt recorded by the Debt Management Office as of December 31, 2022.
This means that fresh disbursements on approved loans added $410m to Nigeria’s debt…
The first batch of Nigerians returning from Sudan has arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja.
The 376 returnees, who took off from Aswan, Egypt, after a tumultuous journey crossing the border, were on Wednesday airlifted by the Nigerian Air Force on the NAF C-130H…
Earlier today, President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned 748 Housing Units of Federal Housing Authority Estate in Zuba, Abuja.
The entire estate covers a total of 18.5 hectares of land area. In the course of executing the estate project, over 13,000 Nigerians were employed directly and indirectly.
President Muhammadu Buhari at the commissioning presented keys to some new homeowners at the Federal…