The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday pegged at N10 billion the minimum paid-up capital for the establishment of the proposed Credit Guarantee Companies (CGCs) in the country. This was contained in a circular by the CBN titled, “Exposure Draft of Guidelines for Regulation and Supervision of Credit Guarantee Companies in Nigeria,” dated August 4, […]
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The federal government has recorded a big break in the fight against insurgency after some 1,000 battle-fatigued, leaderless and evidently demoralised Boko Haram members and their families surrendered to the Nigerian troops. Decimated by military’s air strikes and artillery bombardment, the months-long operations had culminated in the death of the terrorists’ leader, Abubakar Shekau, who […]
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Zambia: Never Take Peace for Granted
WHAT is the fuss behind the news of deploying a peace-keeping force during the period leading to that elections that fall tomorrow? In any given election environment, peace is cardinal and from what has happened in some parts of the country, where political violence cases have been reported and in some cases leading to the […]
MDC-T councilors have climbed down on their recent approval to construct a ZW25 million luxurious mansion for the city’s Mayor Solomon Nguni at Selbourne Park following a public outcry over the move. According to a recent council confidential report, the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T dominated Bulawayo City Council recommended the local authority should build Mguni a […]
The Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Muhammad Dingyadi, said the Federal Government has approved over N4 billion in the 2021 budget for fueling of police vehicles. Mr Bolaji Kazeem, Head of Press and Public Relations in the ministry. disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. The minister spoke in a paper titled, “Strategic […]
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Liberia – UN Joint Rule of Law Programme
Launches judicial case management The UN Joint Rule of Law Programme managed by UNDP Liberia Tuesday, August 10, 2021, launched a Case Management Information System (CMIS) for the Judiciary, accompanied by training of judicial officers on its use. The CMIS is a modern and secure web application that allows clerks of Magisterial and Circuit Courts […]
As a way of commemorating its twentieth anniversary, and express appreciation to its teeming subscribers, MTN Nigeria has announced that 20 customers will be given brand new Honda HRVs. This is also in addition to free airtime and data to all customers. The telco will also allow its customers to make first call of the […]
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Liberia: CPP On the Brink!
As LP executives square off over constitution Every new controversy within a constituent party of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) raises new questions as to how far the CPP can go. The August 4, 2021, letter written by the Liberty Party Political Leader Senator Nyonblee Karnga- Lawrence to the National Elections Commission (NEC) requesting a […]
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Liberia: We Have No Regrets
Gonquoi says after incarceration The head of pressure group Economic Freedom Fighters of Liberia (EFFL), Emmanuel Gonquoi says he has “absolutely no regrets” for his action to have locked the Capitol Building, the official home of Liberian legislators, saying he would lock the Executive Mansion if he is given the opportunity today. “The government said […]
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Liberia: Senate Cites LEC and Others
The plenary of the Liberian Senate cites LEC and all stakeholders in the power sector to appear before it as a committee of a whole to make known their service contract in the absence of Legislative approval. The decision of the plenary was triggered by a communication written by Senator Nyonblee Kangar Lawrence of Grand […]
The Health Ministry said that 86 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country to 284,875. In a statement on Tuesday10/8/2021, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said six patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising […]
As of August 11, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 7,086,472 while over 51,263,030 vaccinations have been administered across the continent. Reported deaths in Africa reached 178,931 and 6,203,838 people have recovered. South Africa has the most reported cases 2,546,762 and 75,201 people died. Other most-affected countries are Morocco (711,103), Tunisia (616,764), Ethiopia (285,413), Egypt (284,875), Libya (271,981) […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has given an assurance to the people in Niger Delta that the present administration will ensure completion of all critical on-going projects in all the nine oil producing states in the region. This assurance, he said, was aimed at fulfilling the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s New Vision development agenda for the […]
A global human rights group, Amnesty International (AI), yesterday said the failure of the Nigerian authorities to live up to their obligation to protect the right to life has enabled a month of bloody attacks on both farmers and herders in some parts of Kaduna and Plateau States. In a statement issued yesterday, the body […]
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has decried the low birth registration in Nigeria, stating that more than 50 percent of the births of children under 5 remain unregistered in the country. UNICEF, while lamenting that Africa has the lowest birth registration among all the continents, lamented that the births of 166 million children under 5 […]
Following reports from the Lagos State’s House of Assembly that it has granted the government the go-ahead to take over the Lekki Concession Company (LCC), the state government has made further clarification on the issue. The government in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy Mr. Gbenga Omotoso has said: “its request was […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, says the Nigerian Government has demanded that the Indonesian Government sanctions its officials who assaulted a Nigerian diplomat in Jakarta, Indonesia. Onyeama made this known, while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja after summoning Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, Usra Harahap, to express the displeasure of the Nigerian government over […]
The United Nations Children Emergency Fund, UNICEF, said, yesterday, that only 50 per cent of births in Nigeria were registered. Chief of Child Protection, UNICEF, Ibrahim Sesay, who disclosed this at a briefing to mark the 2021 Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Day in Abuja, said the existence of accurate, regular and reliable statistics was […]