By Ifah Ele Sunday The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has come up with a prescription on how Nigeria can cope with the current economic challenges caused by COVID-19 pandemic. NEITI is a government agency task with the challenge…
Customers of different commercial banks are groaning over excessive charges from their accounts, findings by the Daily Trust revealed. The financial institutions known as Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in corporate parlance have reportedly introduced different deductions to increase their incomes,…
While the federal and state governments step up efforts against banditry, the menace persists in several states, consuming many in its trail. The Northwest has seen increased violence for some years now, but in the last five months, it has…
It is definitely not the best of time for the Nigerian media industry. The industry has lost seven vibrant journalists to the cold hands of death within a space of a week. Death, no doubt, is an inevitable end for…
Market to lose N1.1trn in 9 months Prior to the planned increase in electricity tariff scheduled for July 1, 2020 by distribution companies, there was palpable tension across the country. However, the plan was suspended following disagreements that greeted the…
Nigeria’s salt import is soaring amid huge deposits in Benue, Cross River, Ebonyi, Abia, Taraba, and Nasarawa states. Despite the abundance of sources of salt in the country, Nigeria spends huge amounts of foreign exchange (forex) on the importation of…
Employers in different sectors of the economy have disengaged workers to mitigate the negative effect of coronavirus pandemic on their ventures. Daily Trust’s findings show that most sectors of the economy are affected apart from those driven by technology. However,…
An alleged leakage of official documents concerning the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) at the Presidency is generating controversy after some members of the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) said top government officials were plotting the…
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria hit the 10,000 mark on Sunday, May 31, 2020, three months after the country recorded its first confirmed COVID-19 case, and keep increasing by the day, with experts calling for more…
By Theophilus Abbah, PhD Today, Covid-19, as they say, is the elephant in the (news)room – it is perceived from diverse angles, and hundreds of hands are in the pot, cooking the antidote to it. Without a cure (a recurring…
