Federation of International Football Association FIFA, has named Messrs Luca Piazza and Solomon Mudege as its observers for Thursday’s elections into the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Executive Committee from 2018-2022. Mudege is FIFA’s Senior Manager for Development Programmes (Africa) while Piazza is a senior official in the FIFA President’s office. […]
Latest data from Nigeria’s official statistics office says the country’s gross domestic data falls to 1.50% in the second quarter of the year. The data from the NBS shows that growth in the second quarter of 2018 was –0.45% points slower than 1.95% recorded in the first quarter of 2018. […]
Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has named his squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Seychelles. The team is billed to face Seychelles on Matchday 2 and host Libya in their next game. Among invited players are Henry Onyekuru who is currently on load […]
World Football governing body, FIFA has confirmed that Nigeria will not be banned after the Federal Government affirmed it recognize Amaju Pinnick as legitimate and sole president of the Nigeria Football Federation. FIFA said in a statement that it will monitor the situations to ensure that he rules and regulations […]
World Football ruling body, FIFA has given Nigeria and Ghana an ultimatum to put their houses in order or face suspension. A statement from the global football house specifically requested that President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick be given effective control or face suspension. Chris Giwa has […]
Royal Dutch Shell said it will decide whether to go ahead with the development of Bonga Southwest offshore oilfield in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. Quoting Reuters News, a senior executive at Shell, the company projected that it will generate profit at below $50 a barrel Shell said it is currently negotiating […]
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has just submitted a supplementary budget to the National Assembly totaling $750 million. Africa’s largest economy had passed a total of N9.12 trillion for the year 2018 (approximately $29.92 billion). According to Reuters, The new supplementary budget includes 164 billion naira to prepare for the 2019 […]
Nigeria’s national airline is to be unveiled on Wednesday. The latest update was given by the country’s minister of aviation who said negotiations are in top gear with Airbus and Boeing for aircrafts. In Twitter post, Hadi Sirika said: “Negotiating Aircraft orders with Airbus at Farnborough ahead of National Carrier […]
Italy’s Saipem and Japan’s Chiyoda Corp and Korea’s Daewoo E&C have announced that a joint venture they operate has been awarded an LNG project in Nigeria. According to Reuters News, Saipem will be the leader of the joint venture. The medium reported that the contract is for the front-end engineering […]
Royal Dutch Shell said it has signed an agreement with Nigeria national oil company and two other groups to develop natural gas projects worth $3.7B. The gas project is a part of the country’s efforts to deal with a looming domestic fuel shortage. The seven projects would add 3.4B cf/day […]