The Minister says Nigerians have rights to travel to Dubai but that UAE will not be allowed to discrimate against citizens. The Federal Government on Monday said flights to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are yet to resume due to discriminatory nature of protocol introduced by the United Arab Emirates, UAE. The Minister of Aviation, […]
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Jos — The Plateau State Governor, Simon Bako Lalong, has explained why his administration removed 532 names of some Civil Servants from the state payroll. The State Head of Civil Service, Engr. Sunday Hyat who gave the reasons while addressing journalists in Jos said some civil servants altered some information related to their records. He […]
Sustainable and affordable energy is one of the goals of Kenya Vision 2030 and the government has, without a doubt, been offering incentives to potential investors in renewable energy. The Feed-in Tariff (FiT) Policy on renewable energy was established in 2008. Originally for electricity generated from wind, biomass and small hydropower sources, following revision in […]
Kenya’s road to ensuring people with disabilities’ rights began not with a big march but a ripple in the disability movement in colonial times. In 1959, just a week to the end of the seven-year state of emergency, a 26-year-old visually-impaired Kenyan defied prejudice against disability to tie the knot with a white woman in […]
For three hours, hundreds of passengers on the Kaduna- Abuja (KA 2) train were trapped at Dutse following a technical fault. The train, which left Rigasa train station in Kaduna at 6:40am, developed a fault five minutes after takeoff. After about 15 minutes, the trip was resumed, only for the train to break down again […]
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Monday said he had briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on his administration’s rightsizing policy, which had put him at loggerheads with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). Governor El-Rufai also clarified that the Kaduna State Executive Council had not approved the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by government representatives at the […]
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has started operationalising the incremental export incentive scheme, which will see some exporters retain up to 100 percent of the qualifying portion of their earnings, as it seeks to drive export-led growth. All gold producers, the central bank said, who deliver gold to Fidelity Printers and Refiners, Zimbabwe’s sole […]
The construction works for the Ferwafa Hotel are set to finally resume next week, the football governing body has announced. The hotel has been under construction since 2016 but the works were suspended when the building reached halfway. Ferwafa vice-president, Marcel Habyarimana, said that the federation has reached an agreement worth Rwf 2.6 billion with […]
A fresh row is brewing in Wajir County following plans by the National Lands Commission (NLC) to allocate a prime plot to a private firm in a process locals claim is shrouded in secrecy. Residents and local leaders have vowed to challenge the move, saying neither NLC nor the county government has the powers to […]
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Nigeria: Govt Gives Sweet Potato Lifeline
As part of efforts to check the looming crises of food security occasion by COVID-19 pandemic in the country, the federal government is charting a new course to uncover the potentials in sweet potato production. The Director, Agriculture, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hajia Karima Babangida, made this known on Monday at the […]
The Federal Road Safety Corps yesterday said 2,233 Nigerians lost their lives to road crashes in the first four months of 2021. FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, Stated this in a virtual event to mark the fifth edition of the Babatunde Raji Fashola GabFest, with the theme ‘Arrive Alive: Building a Road Towards Better Driving […]
Shaka Zulu is getting a modern adaptation with new short animated film Shaka iNkosi yaMakhosi. The film is set to premiere on July 23 at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) and Terry Pheto is one of the producers. Manzini Zungu, hailing from rural KwaZulu-Natal, is the executive producer and co-director of the film. The […]
Team Nigeria will depart for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in two batches with 61 athletes flying the country’s flag. The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development made this disclosure on Monday during a plenary meeting with National Sports Federations whose athletes qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games at the […]
The federal government has approved the handing over of the Atala oilfield, a revoked asset hitherto owned by the Bayelsa state government, to new owners, Halkin Exploration and Production Limited. A letter to that effect sighted by THISDAY indicated that the field, Oil Mining Lease (OML) 46, was approved for transfer after the Director, DPR, […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) have vowed to ramp up efforts at unravelling actual owners of the country’s oil and gas assets as well as ensuring contracts transparency in the sector. Group Managing Director of the corporation, Mallam Mele Kyari, who spoke at a stakeholders’ workshop […]
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has enumerated the achievements of this administration in infrastructure development. He stressed that the infrastructure development were part of the efforts to lift 100 million Nigerians from poverty. Osinbajo, who was represented by the Minister of State for Works and Housing, Mr. Abubakar Aliyu, spoke while delivering his keynote address […]
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Zimbabwe: New Chess League On Cards
THE Zimbabwe Chess Federation are contemplating forming a new league to go by the name Corporates League. The new league will see clubs from companies meeting in different provinces, with the opening encounter, set for Nyanga. Zimbabwe Chess Federation secretary-general, Toddy Mapingire, said they were looking forward to have more teams, on board, so that […]
WARRIORS legend Misheck “Scania” Chidzambwa was laid to rest yesterday with various speakers describing him as an icon who helped transform the face of football in this country. The former Warriors and Dynamos star, who died last week, was buried in his rural home in Mukarati, Ngezi. And football stakeholders who thronged the Chidzambwa homestead, […]