The grid collapse on November 7 marked the 10th such incident in Nigeria in 2024, plunging the country into complete darkness. In Nigeria, grid collapses involve the Generation Companies (GenCos), the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), and the Distribution Companies (DisCos). What is the National Grid? The National Grid is a network of power-generating plants, […]
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Apart from co-ordination and monitoring of the implementation of Government policies and decisions, the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation also supervises the activities of some government agencies. These agencies are: Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission National Hajj Commission of Nigeria National Lottery Trust Fund Bureau of Public
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There are over 300 federal agencies in Nigeria. The agencies are spread across the federal ministries while some of them are domiciled in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The agencies are: 1) Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria (AIB) 2) National Lottery Trust Fund 3) National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) 4) National Root Crops
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The Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development (MSMD) is set up in 1985 with the mandate to identify Nigeria’s solid minerals and formulate policies that will enable the country to unlock the economic potentials of the solid minerals sub-sector. The agencies of MSMD are: Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geoscientists (COMEG) Mining Cadastre Office (MCO) Nigerian
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development emerged following the split of the Ministry of Works and Housing. Its agencies are: National Housing Programme Federal Housing Authority Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria Surveyors Registration Council of Nigeria Office of the Surveyor General of the Federation Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria Formerly known as Nigerian Building
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The Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning is among the unstable ministries in Nigeria with different administrations either merging or carving it from the Ministry of Finance. For instance, there was a Ministry of Budget and Panning between 1999 to 2019, but Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency merged it with the Ministry of Finance in 2019 with
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The appointment of Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi on August 26, 2024, by President Bola Tinubu makes him the 10th Director-General of Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) popularly known as the Department of State Services (DSS). Alhaji Ismaila Gwarzo was the pioneer DG of the paramilitary organisation which was created in June 1986 by the military junta
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What is enterprise code? An Enterprise code in Nigeria is a unique code assigned to firms that partner with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and is used to generate Virtual NIN when verifying the identity of their customers or clients. Government bodies such as the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Corporate
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Until the signing of the Petroleum Industry Bill into law by President Muhammadu Buhari (Petroleum Industry Act 2021), the functions of Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) were carried out by three agencies: the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), the Midstream and Downstream Divisions of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), and the Petroleum Equalization Fund
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Recently an agency of government alleged that Dangote Refinery is pushing for a monopoly, but findings show that there are 26 other refineries spread across Nigeria, which have operating licences from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) formerly known as the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). This means if all the refineries are active
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