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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has officially signed the contract with Tecnimont SPA for the $1.5bn rehabilitation programme of the Port Harcourt Refining Company. Parties in the agreement also announced the commencement of the project following the signing of the contract at the headquarters of the corporation in Abuja. At the virtual contract signing event, the Group Managing Director, NNPC, Mele Kyari, explained that the agreement was basically between PHRC […]

International flight operations resumed at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport on Tuesday after over one year of its closure due to COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had in March said the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport would be reopened for international flights on April 5th. The Minister also said the Port Harcourt and Enugu airports would be reopened for international flights. The Ethiopia Airlines plane with […]

The International Monetary Fund has raised Nigeria’s growth forecast for 2021 to 2.5 per cent from 1.5 per cent earlier announced in January. It disclosed this in its World Economic Outlook for April with the theme ‘Managing divergent recoveries’, which was released on Tuesday. The report also projected a 16 per cent consumer price for the country in 2021. While projecting an improved global growth, the IMF noted that it […]

MTN customers have been reconnected to banking channels after commercial banks had blocked them from using their channels, including the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data and banking apps on Friday. The channels were blocked as a result of MTN reducing the banks’ commission on USSD airtime to 2.5 per cent. However, following the intervention by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, the Governor of the Central Bank of […]

A total of 2,210 workers have withdrawn N3.18bn from their Retirement Savings Accounts with their respective Pension Fund Administrators in six months after making additional voluntary contributions, the National Pension Commission has said. PenCom said this in its quarterly report obtained on Monday. While 1,286 active contributors withdrew N2.17bn in the third quarter of 2020, another 924 contributors withdrew N1.01bn in the fourth quarter of 2020. PenCom stated that “during […]