Mr Blinken said he looks forward to continuing to strengthen the US-Nigeria partnership which is built on shared interests and strong people-to-people ties. Ahead of the 29 May inauguration, Nigeria’s President-elect Bola Tinubu discussed strengthening US-Nigeria relations in a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday. The US Department of State […]
President-elect Bola Tinubu and the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, have described the application by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party for a live broadcast of electoral petition proceedings as an “abuse of the processes of this honourable court.” They urged the Presidential Election Petition Court to dismiss the application, arguing that the relief sought […]
The Special Tribunal has declared a land reform lease agreement entered into between the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform and Cultiver Investments irregular and unlawful. According to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), the agreement was entered into in 2019 after it emerged that the department’s then Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane “ordered the Department” to […]
City must just move people off the lines, says Sindiswe Chikunga Minister of Transport Sindisiwe Chikunga has replied with a flat “no” to plans by the City of Cape Town to take over the passenger rail service in the city. The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) has no intention of devolving the railway […]
… As Madam Sheriff-Doe Calls for Intervention Nationals from different Countries around the world who are residing in Liberia, usually organized themselves into a group known as a “Community” to seek their well-being as a means of cohesiveness, their countries have embassies in Liberia. That is the case with Sierra Leone, a neighboring country whose […]
Yusuf Gagdi says the exclusion of his North-central region in the allocation of the presiding offices of the National Assembly by the ruling party is an act of injustice One of the aspirants for the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yusuf Gagdi, says the zoning of the position to the North-west region […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, yesterday launched the Revised National Agricultural Seed Policy to boost farmers’ unrestricted access to best genetics to enhance their productivity. The minister pointed out that the revised framework has expunged the ambiguous areas in the erstwhile 2015 national seed policy, strengthened the identified weaknesses and […]
DESPITE palliative measures from the Federal Government to sustain the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, indications have shown that the terminal can no longer work effectively. The Managing Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria FAAN, Capt Rabiu Yadudu, who described the airport facilities as obsolete, insisted yesterday on the need for a new international airport in […]
The President Pro-Tempore of the Liberian Senate Albert Tugbe Chie has warned that the results of the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) process may not be what is anticipated in some counties due to limited centers. Delivering a statement Tuesday, 16 May 2023 at the opening of the 54th Legislature on Capitol Hill, Mr. Chie cited […]
Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC-Plateau), a member of the ‘G-7’ says his group remain unruffled in spite change in the House rules that now allows open ballot voting. Gagdi, the Chairman, House Committee on Navy said this while speaking with newsmen on sundry issues ahead of the June 5 inauguration of 10th National Assembly in Abuja. […]
“With domestic foreign currency sales now over 80% of their sales, actually they (retailers) do not need the (RBZ) auction for their forex requirements. “They have enough forex at the … (so) there is again no justification (for the price hikes).” ADDRESSING belated Independence celebrations at Zimbabwe’s embassy in London last month Finance Minister Prof […]
Zanzibar — ZANZIBAR and China yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the implementation of various development projects in the health, infrastructure and education sectors. Zanzibar President Dr Mwinyi witnessed the signing of four projects at the State House in the Stone Town on Wednesday, praising China as a ‘committed friend of Zanzibar and […]
United States (US) based legal group American Bar Association (ABA) has poked holes into two charges against the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president, Orbert Masaraure are violating the Constitution of Zimbabwe and international rights conventions. In a recent report the lobby group focused on a murder case in which Masaraure is accused […]
Government has warned private and public schools from charging fees exclusively in USD saying the local ZWL is the country’s legal tender. Schools opened last Tuesday with a majority of them pegging fees in USD arguing the ZWL is easily eroded by inflation. In cases where the ZWL was accepted it was pegged using the […]
Russia and Ukraine Accept African Leaders Peace Mission to End War – President Ramaphosa President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have agreed to receive a peace mission led by six African heads of state to resolve the war between their countries, reports News24. Ramaphosa is […]
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has accused the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of obstructing investigations into allegations raised in Al Jazeera’s Gold Mafia exposé. This comes after the FIU scrapped an assets freeze targeting the documentary’s central figure Uebert Angel, Ewan MacMillan, Simon Rudland and Kamlesh Pattni. The development came days after the Parliament Speaker […]
Johannesburg — President Samia Suluhu Hassan took over as the country’s first-ever women president two years ago, changing the Tanzanian political space. Since Suluhu Hassan has made several reforms, including lifting the ban on newspapers and a ban on opposition rallies imposed by her predecessor, John Magufuli. However, a growing number of MPs and opposition members and […]
A TikTok video circulating on Facebook in Nigeria claims that the bank verification number (BVN) introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) expires after 10 years. In 2014, the central bank, together with all banks in Nigeria, introduced this centralised biometric identification system. The 11-digit unique number was introduced to protect banking transactions from […]