Month: January 2022
BREAKING: Coup: ECOWAS suspends Burkina Faso, dispatches two delegations to dialogue with military govt.
By Paul Ejime The ECOWAS emergency virtual summit ended on Friday with the suspension of Burkina Faso’s membership over Monday’s military coup that...
NIRSAL links farmers, agri-businesses with commercial banks for affordable, sustainable financing
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh As Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc), continues to assist farmer-groups and...
APC awaits Pres. Buhari on zoning of political offices ahead of 2023, says Ogun Gov. Abiodun
Zoning of National Working Committee (NWC) offices and the 2023 elective positions will wait until the leader of the All Progressives Congress...
Shops, properties destroyed as petrol tanker explodes in Onitsha, Anambara State
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh Several shops and properties worth millions of naira have been destroyed by fire after a petrol laden...
Update: Sylvester Oromoni: Dowen College Board Chairman, members step down
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh The Board Chairman and Founder of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Dr. Olumide Phillips, and members of the school’s...
Elumelu at Jamaica capital markets annual conference, calls for African entrepreneurs- Caribbean collaboration
The Group Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA), a Nigerian pan-African financial services group, Mr Tony O. Elumelu, has called for collaboration...
Labour shortage: Germany to Admit 400,000 Skilled Immigrants Annually
Germany is facing significant labor shortages in 2022, as the European giants grapple with changing demographics and the retirement of an older generation...
ANOTHER ECOWAS EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT HOLDS ON FRIDAY, THIS TIME ON BURKINA FASO: IS THE REGIONAL BODY LOSING THE DEMOCRATIC BATTLE
If the punitive and unprecedented sanctions that ECOWAS imposed on Mali on January 9 were meant to deter soldiers in the...
Crass neglect of Niger Delta, hatred, disdain for its people by Buhari Govt is a keg of gunpowder ready to explode – 95-year-old Clark
The deliberate neglect of the South-South hatred and disdain for the people of the region by the Federal Government is evidential and...
Senate to empower FG to seize “illegally-acquired” assets as bill scales second reading
A law that will empower the Federal Government to confiscate assets of corrupt public officers, terrorism financiers and others is at...
NNPC Ltd, Afreximbank to raise $5 billion financing to support upstream Businesses
NNPC Ltd, Afreximbank to raise $5 billion financing to support upstream Businesses and facilitate energy supply and transition, NNPC GMD Mele Kyari disclosed...
War Tension: Ukraine To Its Olympic Athletes, ‘Do Not Take Photos With Russians’
As war tensions mount between Russia and Ukraine, officials in Ukraine hope their athletes aren’t locked arm in arm with their Russian...
NNPC says N3trn required as petrol subsidy for 2022
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd says about N3 trillion will be required for petrol subsidy in 2022. NNPC presented...
Security Operative Assaults LASTMA Officer After Driving On BRT Lane
The security operative, who wasn’t wearing uniform attempted to handcuff the LASTMA officer who was driving and repeatedly hit him.
Ghebreyesus faces criticism from Ethiopia over 2nd term as WHO chief
World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is running for a new term with opposition from his own country instead of another...
