Ike Amos 26 October 2017, Sweetcrude, Abuja — Oil search in the nation’s inland basins received a fresh impetus following…
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OpeOluwani Akintayo 15 August 2017, Sweetcrude, Lagos- The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, says it will soon commence a mass metering…
24 April 2017, Sweetcrude, Abuja – A geologist and former vice-president of the Abuja Chambers of Commerce, Mr. Uba Malami,…
The establishment of the fund was aimed at supporting the ministry’s policy framework, developing the sector and providing necessary administrative management of the fund in the following ways: the development of both human and physical capacity in the sector; funding for geoscientific data gathering, storage and retrieval to meet the needs of the private sector.
The CT Cosmos is currently involved in the process of completing a 70 mega watts of solar power in Plateau State, while the AfriNigeria Power Ltd is also in the process of completing a 50 mega watts of solar electricity in Nasarawa State.
“As a country, we have the best tax holidays worldwide, all miners have three years tax holidays from the government. Again, out of the 40 minerals in the country, we have selected seven strategic ones for concentration. The minerals are limestone, barytes, iron, bitumen lead and zinc. We also have duty free on all mining equipment,” the minister said.
Ogunbiyi said, “We have listened to all the complaints from people across the state and I want to assure you that we will sack any of our staff found wanting in the discharge of his or her duties such as illegal collection, extortion of money from our customers and other illegalities.”
Nungwa observed that a bag of cement sold at N3, 000 in Benue within the month, while in other states such as Kano, Bauchi, Kogi and Nasarawa, a bag sold at between N1, 500 and N1, 700.
“In Awe Local Government Area of the state, we have deployed only 25 personnel but our target was to deploy above one hundred because of the trouble that is coming up between Dangote Group of Companies and other partners,” he added.
14 April 2016, Lagos – Consumers of petrol in Nasarawa, Cross River and Sokoto States were hit the hardest by the…
