While the alliterative theme of this year’s BRICS Summit is “cooperation for continuity, consolidation and consensus”, conversations are likely to be dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, security and Afghanistan. For the second year running, Thursday’s annual gathering of the world’s leading emerging economies – including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (comprising the acronym…
The hillocks dotting the coal hub of Chandrapur are a green oasis in the central Indian region pockmarked with coal mines, where even rain puddles are black, and a coal-fed thermal power plant belches smoke into the sky. Yet locals live in fear of these hills – dunes formed with the sand removed from coal…
Hundreds of millions of children in South Asia are suffering because their schools have been closed due to coronavirus but they lack online devices and connections for remote learning, UNICEF says. Authorities should prioritise the safe reopening of schools because, even before the pandemic, nearly 60 percent of children in the densely populated region were…
The crisis over the Value Added Tax deepened on Wednesday with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, ordering companies based in the state to start paying VAT to the state government. Wike gave the order during a stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt with representatives of Shell Petroleum Development Company and other oil companies as well…
THE Benue and Ondo state governments have slammed the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, over its comment on the anti-open grazing law. The National Secretary of the association, Mr Saleh Alhassan, had called on the National Assembly to intervene and stop attempts by some state governors to enact anti-open grazing laws targeted at Fulani…
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association has said that a cow could cost up to N2 million in Lagos State if the anti-grazing bill is passed into law in the state. Zonal Secretary of Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in the South West, during a one-day public hearing organised by the state House of Assembly…
The Lagos State lawmakers have explained some provisions of the anti-open grazing bill to stakeholders at the public hearing held on the proposed bill. The Speaker of the House, Dr Mudashiru Obasa, who was represented by the Deputy Speaker, Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni, in his address, stated that the bill would address the tension generated by the…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has lamented what he called injustice in the country especially in the area of resource allocation. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, the governor ordered companies based in the state to start paying their Value Added Tax to the state government beginning this September. Wike lamented…
Trust Africa News Morocco’s long-ruling party has suffered a crushing defeat to liberal rivals in parliamentary elections, according to provisional results announced by the interior minister. The Justice and Development Party (PJD) saw its support collapse from 125 seats to just 12, far behind its main liberal opponents, the National Rally of Independents (NRI) and…
