Senate passes N17.12trn budget for 2022

…adjourns plenary till January 18, 2022  The Senate on Wednesday passed an aggregate expenditure of N17,126,873,917,692 trillion naira as budget for the 2022 fiscal year. The passage followed the consideration

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Buhari seeks Senate’s approval for virement of N276.8bn to fund 2021 budget expenditures

The Senate on Tuesday received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari seeking the Senate’s approval for the virement of N276,757,232,395 billion to fund expenditures in the 2021 budget. The

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Over 30,000 Nigerian youths to acquire digital skills – Pantami

No less than 30,000 additional young Nigerians will gain access to digital skills training as part of the benefits of a collaboration between the Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital

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Interswitch reiterates commitment to digitisation of transport sector

By Benjamin Omoike…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Interswitch, Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, says it is committed to the digitisation of the processes involved in the transportation of people and goods in

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LASG raises N137.3bn capital mkt bond to address infrastructure deficit

By Benjamin Omoike ………………………………………………………………………………………….All statutory instruments that will facilitate the raising of N137.328 billion bond by Lagos State Government from the capital market to deliver key infrastructure in critical sectors

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Huawei ranked world’s 2nd highest investor in R&D by EU

Tech company Huawei has been ranked second place out of 2,500 measured companies in the 2021 European Union (EU) Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. The company moved one place higher this year, having placed third

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Huawei-based 5G Telemedicine solution wins COVID-19 innovation award

The telemedicine solution for COVID-19 developed by the China-Japan Friendship Hospital based on Huawei’s 5G network solutions has been awarded GSMA GLOMO ‘Best Innovation for COVID-19 Pandemic Response & Recovery’.

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Huawei joins MANRS to boost global internet security

Huawei has become a founding member of the Equipment Vendor Program (EVP) of the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), in an effort to actively improve global Internet security.

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FG, states, local councils share N675.946 billion for November

Federal, state, and local councils shared N675.946 billion from the federation account for November on Friday. Mr. Olajide Oshundun, Acting Director, Information, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning stated

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Nigeria has not, and will not, mortgage national asset for Chinese loans — DMO

The Debt Management Office (DMO) has clarified that loans from China  to Nigeria, which presently stood at 3.59 billion dollars, constitutes only 9.4 per cent  of the country’s total foreign debt stock

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