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Nigerian banks have shunned loans requests amounting to about $700 million from new investors in the power sector, as embargo on implementation of new electricity tariff haunts the sector, New Telegraph has learnt. ... Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2StzHTp Get more: Nigeria...

A total of 5,600 vehicle-engines in Nigeria have been converted from petrol to use Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). The gas major and CNG advocate, NIPCO Plc, which revealed this at the weekend... Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2zfMW0W Get more: Nigeria Business News

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday blamed the previous administrations for the infrastructural challenge facing the country. According to him, it is sad that infrastructure went to … Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2qiQ48i Get More Nigeria Political News

The Oyo State Government has ordered the payment of outstanding salaries to the state civil servants and teachers. A statement on Monday by the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Toye Arulogun, said the payment approved by the state governor, Abiola Ajimobi, would cover the...

Any African, who hates Nigeria, probably hates the entire black race. We are very unique in multiple nuances. In academics, various fields of specialties have the impressive footprints of Nigerians. In crimes, we have proved again and again that its sophistry is our exclusive reserve. We...

Michael Adedeji, a member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, who was shot last week, is dead. The lawmaker was shot at close range at Ado-Ekiti while on his way to Akure, the Ondo State capital, last Friday... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2zaFRPr Get More Nigeria...

Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Mr. Waziri Adio, yesterday, disclosed that the agency had not made much progress in addressing the gaps inherent in the extractive industries, because it lacks the power to enforce remediation activities in...

Britain will introduce a new digital services tax aimed at tech giants from 2020, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Monday, responding to public outrage over low tax payments. “It is only right that these global giants with profitable businesses in the UK pay their fair share,” Hammond...

A woman suicide bomber blew herself up near police vehicles on a busy street in the centre of the Tunisian capital on Monday after a three-year break in such attacks, injuring at least nine people, the interior ministry said. Ministry spokesman, Sofiene Zaag, told AFP that all but one …...

Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of "murdering opponents of government". He also accused the opposition party of "abusing the judicial system" by going to court to challenge President Muhammadu...