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Nigeria Tops Global Ranking In Lack Of Access To Electricity

27.06.2025
Nigeria has the largest population without access to electricity globally, with 86.8 million people lacking supply as of 2023, according to the World Bank’s latest energy progress report. The report, titled “Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report 2025,” was released on Wednesday and assesses progress made toward Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which focuses on...
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Ogun Begins Retail CNG Refilling Stations

27.06.2025
As part of its efforts to ensure affordable and safe transportation of goods and services, Ogun State Government has recorded another significant progress towards improving access to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), through the Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (PiCNG), the state has intensified its drive to make CNG widely available to the public. Commissioner...
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Aiyedatiwa Clarifies Demolition Of Owo Memorial Park

27.06.2025
The Ondo State Government yesterday clarified that it permitted the Olowo-inCouncil to demolish the memorial park built to immortalise worshippers killed by gunmen at St Francis Xavier Catholic Church Owo after consideration its implications on the location. At least 40 worshippers were shot dead and scores injured during the June 5, 2022, terror attack. The...
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Tinubu Declines Assent To NDLEA Amendment Bill

27.06.2025
President Bola Tinubu yesterday declined assent to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Amendment Bill 2025 sent to him by the National Assembly. This is the second time in two days that the president has withdrawn his assent to bills forwarded to him by the National Assembly. He had last Tuesday declined to assent...
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Humanitarian Aid Not Enough To Achieve SDGs, Says EU

27.06.2025
The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Gautier Mignot, has said development and humanitarian assistance are not sufficient to ensure sustainable development in countries, especially in achieving the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Mignot said this was reason why the EU was leveraging private investments and private resources through its Global...
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Sugar Tax Hike Rebuttal: ThinkBusiness Challenges CAPPA’s Pr

27.06.2025
A Kenya-based intelligence company, ThinkBusiness Africa, has sharply contested the proposed 1,200 per cent increase in the sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Nigeria. In a press conference on Tuesday in Lagos, the intelligence platform disagreed with the report by Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa entitled ‘Evaluating Nigeria’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: A Critical Review of CAPPA’s...
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International Breweries Leads Sustainable Packaging Charge

27.06.2025
International Breweries Plc has revealed that over 95 per cent of its product portfolio is now packaged in returnable glass bottles in a bid to reduce waste and deepen its commitment to sustainability through circular economy models. Disclosing this in a statement, the Managing Director, Carlos Coutino, said the company has made circular packaging a...
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Budget Extension Deters Investors: LCCI Warns

27.06.2025
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called on the National Assembly to cap future rollovers of capital budgets at one per fiscal year to restore the integrity of the January–December budget cycle and rebuild investor confidence in government infrastructure delivery. The Senate had, during plenary on Tuesday, extended the implementation of the capital...
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