Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s regulatory National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has said it plans to spend 68 billion naira (US$423.5 million) to finance the digital switch over, since it intends to switch off from analogue television transmission from 17 June … Read More
Golden gate of Prophet Muhammad’s tomb in Medina Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerians were observing Tuesday a public holiday in commemoration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad, otherwise known as Eid-el-Maulud. Political and religious leaders used the occasion to extol the … Read More
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Diplomatic ties between the world most populous nation, China, and Africa’s largest black nation, Nigeria, entered the next level with the Asian country granting visa waivers to Nigerian diplomats and senior government officials. The privately-owned GUARDIAN … Read More
Diezani Alison-Madueke Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian government has shelved plans to sell its four refineries, following an agreement it signed Tuesday with leaders of the two labour unions in the petroleum sector – the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and … Read More
New York, US (PANA) – Nigerian scholar, author and journalist Wale Adebanwi’s book on the country’s anti-graft war has been named among the ‘Best Books of 2013 on Africa’ by Foreign Affairs, the leading journal on US foreign policy and … Read More
President Goodluck Jonathan Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – A Nigerian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has tasked President Goodluck Jonathan to implement a five-point programme against corruption if he is serious about fighting the crime. In apparent response to the President’s promise, in … Read More
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – As the 100-year treaty that led to the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Nigeria Protectorates under the British Colonial rule ends on 1 Jan. 2014, a coalition of ethnic nationalities under the aegis of the … Read More
Chief Adebisi Akande, chairman of the All Progressives Congress Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian political scene this year witnessed undoubtedly its biggest transformation since the advent of the current democratic dispensation in 1999, with the merger of political parties, defections … Read More
PANA Lagos, Nigeria – The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has returned US$ 8,500 cash, belonging to Mrs. Titilayo Onabokun, which she misplaced at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on her way to the United States. Mr. Yakubu … Read More
Information Minister Labaran Maku PANA Lagos, Nigeria – The Nigerian government has approved the construction of what will become the deepest Deep Sea Port in West Africa with a depth of 300 metres at the cost of US$1.354 billion. The … Read More
Photo: environment.gr PANA Abuja, Nigeria – Following the scourge of piracy, oil theft and shut-ins by crude oil producers that has negatively affected government income, the Nigerian government withdrew a total of US$1 billion from the nation’s Excess Crude Account … Read More
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and President Nhamadjo Serifo of Guinea Bissau Photo: thenationonlineng PANA Bissau, Guinea-Bissau – Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan, on warned that the global community was no longer inclined to tolerate a role in governance by the military … Read More
Photo:lionheartdms PANA Abuja, Nigeria – The former African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson, Dr. Jean Ping, has expressed optimism that the next 50 years of the continental body will usher in greater development, given the growth being recorded across Africa. “You … Read More
Photo:northoflagos PANA Lagos, Nigeria – Nigerian banks have so far disbursed 109.3 billion naira (US$684.5 million) from the Power and Airlines Intervention Fund to boost power supply in the country, according to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido … Read More
Ambassador to Nigeria Ryuichi Shoji second from left; Photo: www.icirnigeria.org PANA Lagos, Nigeria – The Nigerian government is collaborating with Japan in order to tackle the electricity transmission problem facing the country, according to local media reports Wednesday. Both countries, … Read More
Photo: saharareports.org PANA Lagos, Nigeria – Nigeria’s former military Vice President Mike Akhigbe died on Monday at the age of 68, the local media reported Tuesday. The report said Akhigbe, a retired Nigerian Navy Vice Admiral, died in a New … Read More
Photo: Premium Times, Talatu Usman PANA Lagos, Nigeria – The Nigerian government has renewed its energy partnership agreement with Germany to boost bilateral relations between the two countries and address the African nation’s power deficit, the local media reported Wednesday. … Read More
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (center)Photo: UN PANA Abuja, Nigeria- Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, will late Wednesday embark on a pilgrimage to Israel, according to a presidential press statement issued here Tuesday. President Jonathan who will be accompanied on the trip … Read More
Photo:Deborah Louden PANA Lagos, Nigeria – Nigeria’s foremost teaching hospital, the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, in South West Oyo State, has successfully carried out its first open heart surgery to correct a leaking heart valve in a 19-year-old secondary … Read More
Photo: Remy Steinegger PANA Lagos, Nigeria- Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido has been named by the Emerging Markets Magazine as the Central Bank Governor of the Year for sub-Saharan Africa. The local media reported Monday that the … Read More
