Nigeria has called for greater collaboration among Africans to effectively confront challenges such as climate change, public health, local vaccine production, among others. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, in a statement, said that President Muhammadu Buhari made the call on Wednesday in Abuja….
The Lagos State Government says it will be diverting traffic along Inner Marina to Outer Marina by Oando Filling Station from 5.00 a.m. till 6.00 p.m. on Friday due to the Burial Service of the Late former Head of Interim Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan.The state Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, made the disclosure in…
The Deputy Chief Executive of Geregu Power Plc, Julius Omodayo-Owotuga, has joined the board of FBN Holdings Plc as a non-executive director following the approval of his appointment by the Central Bank of Nigeria. A statement said Omodayo-Owotuga was previously the group executive director, finance and risk management at Forte Oil Plc (now Ardova Plc)….
Inflation fed by high oil and gas prices hit record levels in Europe for the third month in a row, extending pain for consumers and sharpening questions about future moves by the European Central Bank. The 19 countries that use the euro currency saw consumer prices increase by an annual 5.1 percent in January, the…
OPEC+ agreed on Wednesday to stick to moderate rises in its oil output, with the group already struggling to meet existing targets and wary of responding to calls on its strained capacity for more crude from top consumers to cap surging prices. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies led by Russia, a…
Russian volunteers are being sought to reinforce separatist forces in eastern Ukraine over social media networking sites such as VK, the Russian-language equivalent to Facebook which has hundreds of millions of subscribers. Pinned to the top of a VK page titled “Army of the DPR”, which refers to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), one…
There was tension at the Shehu of Borno Palace in Maiduguri when a yet-to-be-identified policeman gunned down Donatus Vonkong, a Warrant Officer of the Nigerian Army. Multiple sources confirmed the incident to Daily Trust, on Wednesday, saying the policeman was under the influence of alcohol. The development caused pandemonium in the area as aggrieved youths…
A leader of the Civilian Joint Task Force in Borno State has died from an explosion suspected to have been triggered by mines planted by Boko Haram insurgents. Five other persons sustained injuries in the incident which happened in Biu Local Government Area of Borno. Until his death, Ibrahim Maliya Saidu, the deceased, was the…
Former presidential candidate and Revolution Now convener, Omoyele Sowore, has described as dead on arrival the presidential ambition of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi. Recall that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, had in January…
