5G: Minister says it’ll cost about $2bn to connect the whole country, targets 95,000 km of fibre optic cables
December 5, 2023 Minister of Communications, Innovations and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, says the infrastructure that supports the advanced technology the Fifth-Generation (5G) network was not everywhere in the country….
ARMY CHIEF VISITS TUDUN BIRI, COMMISERATES, TENDERS APOLOGY, PLEDGES SUCCOUR TO DRONE STRIKE VICTIMS, COMMUNITY
Dec. 5, 2023 The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja has paid a condolence visit to Tudun Biri community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State….
EFCC Presents N76.586 billion Budget Proposal to House of Reps
Dec. 5, 2023 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, presented a budget of N76.586billion (Seventy Six Billion, Five Hundred and Eighty Six Million Naira)…
EFCC Presents FBI’s Witness, Closes Case Against Defendants In Alleged Purchase of Forged American Express Travellers Cheque
Dec. 5, 2023 The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has presented two more witnesses, comprising a Foreign Service National Investigator with the United States…
Alleged N4.8bn Fraud: EFCC Opposes Lagos AG’s Moves To Take Over Ibeto’s Prosecution
December 5, 2023 The planned arraignment of the Chairman of Ibeto Energy Development Company, Chief Cletus Ibeto, again failed on Tuesday at the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja. Channels…
Kaduna Bombing: Airstrike targeted at terrorists embedded with civilians — DHQs
December 5, 2023 The Defence Headquarters (DHQs) says the air strike by the Nigerian Army at Tudun Birni community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, that left about…
Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers
December 5, 2023 Teenagers’ mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said…
FG approves sale of NAF Falcon 900B aircraft, calls for bidders
December 5, 2023 The Federal Government has approved the sale of Falcon 900B aircraft owned by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). NAF disclosed this in a message on X, Monday…
Phasing out fossil fuels among options on table for COP28 climate talks
December 5, 2023 Countries at the COP28 climate conference are considering calling for a formal phase-out of fossil fuels as part of the U.N. summit’s final deal to fight global…
Oil prices rise on uncertainty over OPEC+ cuts and Middle East tensions
December 5, 2023 Oil prices jumped by nearly 1% on Tuesday, lifted by uncertainty over voluntary output cuts by the OPEC+ group of producers, tensions in the Middle East and…