Buhari to sell 25 Nigeria’s properties to fund N10.7trn 2023 budget deficit

Federal Government under the leadership of President Muhammad Buhari has listed over 25 Nigeria properties that will be either sold or ‘concessioned’ to fund the N10.7trn 2023 budget deficit.   Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the 2023 budget deficit of N10.78 trillion would be funded by borrowing, as well as sales of national assets and project-specific loans.   The president made the revelation, on Friday, October 7, 2022, while presenting the Appropriation Bill of N20.51 trillion for 2023 to the Senate and the House of Representatives at…

NCC restates Commitment to Fund Research as VCs attend Roundtable

Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Adeolu Akande, has restated the commitment of the Commission to commit more funds to research and prototypes resulting from grants from the Commission to the academia. This was coming at the backdrop of the recent revelation that the Commission has committed more than N500 million in funding research across the Nigerian universities. Akande told a gathering of Vice Chancellors and Professors from universities in the southern parts of the country at a roundtable conference at the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja,…