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Female capacity offers opportunity for accelerated economic growth __WIEN
The Nigerian economy holds potential to accelerate growth and development by 2025 if women are provided the opportunity to play exactly the same role as men in corporate leadership and economic management in the country. The assertion forms one of…
NLNG N18.4b award: When the Senate kills the environment
Sopuruchi Onwuka The recent decision to impose N18.4 billion penal measure against the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited over pipeline right of way dispute stokes existing concerns among petroleum industry investors about the threat of political interference in the…
Africa will lose 64% of GDP to climate change by 2100
If African countries don’t change their current climate policies to align with the Paris Agreement, and continue suffering climate funding shortfalls from the west, they could lose 64% of their GDP due to climate change devastation according to a report…
Energy pundits demand regulation on gender diversity
Professionals and technocrats in the energy industry have demanded government to evolve deliberate policies for gender balancing and diversity in the management and boards of public and private entities in the Nigerian corporate community, arguing that enhanced gender parity would…
Francophone hackers stole $11m , cause $50m damages in Nigeria, others
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Internet fraud syndicate operating from one of Nigeria’s neighbouring francophone countries have successfully launched over 30 successful attacks at financial institutions and stole over $11 million, causing damages worth over $50 million to the institutions….
Flood: NCDMB takes PNC Conference to Uyo
The management of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has announced the movement of her flagship annual Practical Nigerian Content conference to Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State. The Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote made the announcement in an email…
“We can make pipelines invulnerable to sabotage” __Okwuosa
Sir Emeka Okwuosa stands tall among his peers and also commands the respect of people who understand the values he generates for the society, the economy and humanity. In the engineering profession, oilfield services, infrastructure development, solid mineral development, agriculture…
CBN’s rate for Naira sends false economic signals
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Between the N460 official rate for the dollar and the over N850 in the informal foreign exchange market, market pundits that generate data to simulate the direction of the economy are having hectic time. Whereas…
APPO retains Nigeria’s Omar Farouk Ibrahim as Secretary General
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Council of Ministers of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) has extended the tenure of Nigeria’s Omar Farouk Ibrahim as the Secretary General of the body which coordinated energy policies and programmes for socio-economic development of the…
Naira redesign: Politicians dump Naira at forex market
Sopuruchi Onwuka Huge volumes of apparently stashed away for election purposes are finding their way to the parallel foreign exchange market on fears of being tracked if they make their ways to the banks. The rush to mop up foreign…
