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The Nigerian Air Force on Friday in Abuja decorated its first female pilot, Flying Officer Blessing Liman, along with 29 other male pilots. Decorating the officers in Abuja, the Minister of Defence, Dr Bello Mohammed, said that the Air Force had justif...
The Managing Director, Green Technologies, Mr. Temitope Olagija, has urged governments at all levels to invest in Jatropha plant to empower Nigerians economically. Olagija made the call while delivering his paper titled: "Emerging Trends in BioFue...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says a total of 110 million SIM cards have been registered and collated by all the GSM service providers operating in the country. Mr Reuben Muoka, NCC’s Public Relations Officer, stated this in an int...
The Petroleum Equalisation Fund Management Board (PEFMB) on Friday said it had commenced monitoring distribution of petroleum products electronically across the country from April. Mr Goddy Nnadi, the General Manager (Customer Services) in ...
The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) said in Lagos on Friday said that the components of the police helicopter which crashed in Jos recently would be taken abroad for laboratory tests. AIB spokesman, Mr Tunji Oketunbi, disclosed this to our co...
The founder of Visafone Communication Limited, Jim Ovia, has said that Nigerians will be expending wireless broadband services worth N600 billion come 2015 even as he said aggressive internet penetration was the future of the country for economy growth...
With the huge traffic occasioned by the rise of mobile internet and the social media which has seen terabytes of data, video and voice calls passing through the internet, mobile operators are seeking additional spectra release to expand their networks ...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), took its awareness drive about effective use of communications services in Nigeria to the 23rd Enugu International Trade Fair which ended at the weekend where it urged phone subscribers in the country to en...
Etisalat Nigeria has renewed its growth plans for the Nigerian mobile telecommunications, saying it would continue to invest despite the challenges in the sector even as its subscriber base reached 12 million just three and half years after launching i...
One of the major constraints of Nigeria’s biotechnology has been the of lack of regulatory mechanism which would enable the country to bring in various crop species that will encourage higher yield and also convince people to practice agriculture...
The Rivers Government will generate 700 megawatts of electricity before the end of its tenure, says Gov Chibuike Amaechi. Amaechi told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday about N72 billion would be required to achieve the feat. He promised that the gove...
Nigeria’s attempt to become a digital economy may be realised sooner going by the plans of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to draw a five-year (2013-2017) Strategic Management Plan (SMP) that will guide the growth and development of the ...
Nigerian telecommunication operators may drag the federal government to court by December 2013 if it fails in its promise to improve public power supply. The operators, who have been bearing the brunt of the poor electricity supply, said that the worr...
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Training Development Fund (PTDF), Engr. Muttagha Rabe Darm, will appear before the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) to clarify reas...
President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience, yesterday, arrived Incheon Airport, South Korea in the company of Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan and his Taraba State counterpart, Danbaba Suntai for the Nuclear Security Summit in...