Joy Obakeye The Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Energy Finance (SUNREF), a green financing line for businesses developed by the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Manufacturing Association of Nigeria (MAN), has created a $70 million low-cost debt financing funding facility for manufacturers in the country. This was disclosed during the Renewable Energy and […]
The Rivers State Government and the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency have said they will investigate the gas pipeline explosion, which shattered the serenity of Oduoha and Elibrada communities in the Emohua Local Government Area of the state earlier this week. Sources told our correspondent that the rupture occurred around 3am, resulting in […]
…Achieves N76.35bn turnover, N7.90bn PBT Transcorp Group, Nigeria’s leading listed conglomerate, the largest power generator in Nigeria, operator of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest hotel and a growing natural resources player has unveiled new strategy to grow earning powers of shareholders in dividends. The President/Group CEO of Transcorp, Owen Omogiafo who set out the strategic ambition, while […]
Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) says plans are underway to generate N270.79 billion from its 20 transactions in 2020. The Director-General, BPE, Mr. Alex Okoh, disclosed this at a breakfast meeting with newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja. Okoh explained that N3.94 billion would be spent out of the money in the cause of executing the […]
The Bauchi State commissioner of Agriculture and Natural resources, Barrister Yakubu Kirfi has disclosed that not fewer than 1.6 million livestock have been targeted for vaccination against contagious diseases in the state. The commissioner who stated this at the flagging off ceremony of 2018 Livestock vaccination campaign in Chinade on Monday said, “1.6 million livestocks […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has disclosed that the parliament will not condone diversion or abuse, in whatever guise, of the N350billion natural resources funds to areas that are outside its core mandate. Speaking in the National Assembly, at the investigative hearing of the adhoc committee on the Utilisation of […]