President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a steering committee to oversee the process of implementation of the newly signed Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). The steering committee is headed by the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva. The president, who announced this while marking the passage the PIA which he signed into law on Aug. 16,…
The United Arab Emirates is hosting President Ashraf Ghani “on humanitarian grounds”, after he fled Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s takeover, the Gulf nation has confirmed. “The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation can confirm that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds,” the ministry…
Seven people have been killed in an attack on a convoy transporting workers to a Shell oil and gas project in Nigeria’s southeast, police say. No group claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack, but southeast Nigeria has seen a wave of deadly violence targeting security personnel and government facilities since the beginning of the year. Police…
On Sunday, the Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan after a few weeks of stunning military victories. The armed group had been toppled in a US-led invasion in 2001 following the September 11 attacks on US soil, but it gradually regained strength, carrying out numerous attacks on foreign as well as Afghan forces in the…
London, United Kingdom – The collaboration between whistle-blowers and journalists has for years led to major revelations about corruption and the abuse of power in the United Kingdom. In 2013, journalists exposed the scale of mass surveillance carried out by Western governments through documents leaked by the National Security Agency (NSA) dissident, Edward Snowden. In 2009,…
Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, has felicitated former president, retired Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) on his 80th birthday anniversary. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Malam Mukhtar Gidado, in Bauchi on Tuesday, Mohammed lauded Babangida for achieving the feat. The governor noted that the former president, remained one of Nigeria’s…
President Emmanuel Macron has said France, Germany and other EU countries are working on a coordinated response against expected “irregular migratory flows” from Afghanistan, where the Taliban’s takeover has fuelled fears among rights groups of a looming crisis. Speaking on Monday in a televised address from his summer residence, Macron described the situation in Afghanistan…
Uganda’s constitutional court is scrapping a controversial anti-pornography law whose provisions included a ban on wearing miniskirts in public, in a decision hailed by women’s rights campaigners. The judgement on Tuesday said that the 2014 legislation, which had been dubbed the “anti-miniskirt law,” was “inconsistent with or in contravention of the constitution of the republic…
More than 30 people were killed in a rebel attack in the West African country of Niger, the Ministry of Interior has said. Armed assailants on motorcycles attacked the village of Darey Dey in the Tillaberi region close to the border with Mali on Monday and killed 37 people, including 14 children, according to the…
