Speaking in Lagos when the Director-General of the Debt Management Office, Patience Oniha, paid him a courtesy visit, Dangote described the Sukuk as a commendable initiative and urged Nigerians to invest in the offer which has the full faith and credit of the Federal Government.
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Adeosun, represented by the Director, Home Finance, Federal Ministry of Finance, made the observation in Abuja at the inauguration of Finance Sectoral Consultative Committee on Statistics.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, gave the advice when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja.
“The national grid produces about 6,600 mega-watts of electricity from the 750,33KV trading points, but less than 4,600 mega-watts get distributed to the consumers,” Edozien said on Monday in Jos, Plateau State.
This is even as the Bank sustained its intervention in the various sectors of the inter-bank Foreign Exchange market with the injection of $545 million.
Governor Sani Bello stated this when he paid a courtesy call on the Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, in Abuja.
The financial expert, however, said the naira had remained stable in the local market exchanging between N360 and N365 to the dollar in the past five months
US West Texas Intermediate crude futures were at $50 per barrel at 0547 GMT, and close to the more than three-month high of $50.50 reached last Thursday.
NAN aviation correspondents, who monitored the situation at both the international and domestic wings of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, observed normal flight operations by airlines
The senior staff trade union made the call against the backdrop of the threat by the marketers to embark on massive retrenchment of their employees if the government refused to settle the over N720 billion subsidy arrears.
He said that the government was working assiduously to ensure that the deadline was complied with to take the country back to the annual budget cycle of January to December.
Umana said this is possible if there is a faithful implementation of the Executive Orders on Ease of Doing Business by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Oscar Ofuka, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Cocoa Development, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Calabar on Sunday.
Oladele Amoda, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, said in a statement in Lagos, on Saturday that the exercise was aimed at fishing out all those engaging in energy theft through meter bypass.
Suarau who stated this over the weekend in his office while reviewing the plans of carrying out the Governor’s directives noted that the directive is part of the strategy to increase access to the product and ensure effective distribution of the rice across the State.
Onyeama told the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in New York that the amount of money siphoned out of the country was staggering.
Dahiru told the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna that the figure represents 73.4 percent of the revenue target for the zone this year.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who declared this at a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York, said Buhari was “now firing up”.
NAMA gave the assurance in a statement signed by Capt. Fola Akinkuotu on Friday in Lagos.
On a month-on-month basis, the report noted that the headline index increased by 0.97 per cent in August 2017, 0.24 per cent points lowered from the rate of 1.21 per cent recorded in June.