Goddy Ikeh
A total of just over $910 million is required to respond to the humanitarian needs of 3.6 million people in need of life-saving assistance in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) states in north-east Nigeria in 2025. A total of 7.8 million people are considered to be in need of humanitarian assistance.
Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BoI) has signed a $50 million loan portfolio guarantee agreement with the African Guarantee Fund (AGF) to provide funding for MSMEs and women-owned businesses in Nigeria.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has urged the Beninese authorities to reverse their January 21 orders suspending six privately owned media outlets — news sites Reporter Médias Monde, Les Pharaons, and Crystal News, the Mme Actu Tiktok account, and Le Patriote and Audace Info newspapers — and to return the press card of Audace Info’s publication director Romuald Alingo.
The Special Adviser to the Nigerian President on Energy, Olu Verheijen, has said that the Nigerian energy sector attracted investments worth $6.7 billion in 2024.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) led by its President, Mr. Joseph Ajaero, has criticised the 50 per cent hike in telecoms tariffs, describing it as an added burden on Nigerian workers who earn less than $50 per month as minimum wage.
The Nigerian Exchange Limited continued its bearish trend on Thursday, as the benchmark All-Share Index dipped by 0.05 per cent, closing at 102,788.20.
Ghana is taking bold steps to improve food security and sustainability by bringing together agritech, agribusiness, and collaborative partnerships.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) says it uncovered 179 incidents of crude oil theft in the past week.
Air Sierra Leone, has resumed its scheduled flight operations between Lagos and Freetown after over 15 years of inactiveness.
The Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Mr. Gbenga Komolafe, says that Nigeria plans to rake in about N84.67tn from the sale of crude oil in 2025.