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Novartis and the African Union (AU) through the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP) have announced a new collaboration to facilitate the supply of medicines from the Novartis Pandemic Response Portfolio to AU member-states and Caricom countries. AMSP portal is an online marketplace that enables the supply of COVID-19-related critical medical...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday vehemently rejected the fresh increase in the price of fuel to N151 per litre and electricity tariff to N66 per kwh by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government. The opposition party described the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its government as callous, cruel and punishing. The...
National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has corrected itself, saying the number of people who died of AIDS-related causes in Nigeria within the first six months of year 2020 is 20,500, rather than the 51,000 it stated in a media interview. NACA Director-General, Gambo Aliyu, had told a...
 A 27-man National Humanitarian Co-ordination Technical Working Group (NHCTWG) has been inaugurated to provide technical support to the National Humanitarian Coordination Committee (NHCC) constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari to oversee all humanitarian actions in the country. This was disclosed Wednesday by Special Adviser on Media to the Minister of Humanitarian...
Ahead of the September 5 re-opening of airspace for international flights, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Tuesday met with the management team of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Discussions at the meeting focused partly on actionable steps being put in place at Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) by...
The President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government Wednesday increased the depot price of Premium Motor Spirit popularly known as petrol to N151.56 per litre. This is expected to lead to an increase in the pump price of petrol nationwide. This was disclosed by the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary...
Companies in Nigeria's mining sector including other operators in the Minerals and Metals Sector have been urged to operate within the operational guidelines in the nation's Mining Act. READ ALSO: https://echotitbits.com/zamfara-gov-in-aso-rock-presents-specimens-of-gold-and-other-precious-natural-minerals-to-buhari/ The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite made the call in Abuja when he played host to the Governor of...
A leading Nigerian conglomerate with focus on manufacturing, infrastructure and agriculture, BUA Group, has ventured into oil and gas sector and signed a deal with France’s largest hydrocarbons group, Axens, to refine 200,000 barrels per day of crude oil in Nigeria. Located in Akwa Ibom State, South-south Nigeria, the project...
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, Tuesday met with President Muhammadu Buhari and seized the opportunity to intimate him on how his administration is working to better the lot of all Imolites. The governor also informed the President of his administration's readiness to ensure a free and fair election in Okigwe...
African Energy Chamber's Local Content Advisory Committee has held its first meeting, placing local content development at the core of its activities towards the continent's economic recovery. The meeting agreed that with several established markets like Nigeria or Angola and frontier energy markets such as Senegal or Uganda, the oil...