The official said BPE reached agreement with the former 982 staff of SAHCOL on 2 November 2018, after which it inaugurated a negotiation committee. The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) says the compulsory contribution to the Treasury Single Account (TSA) is preventing it from paying N1.8 billion severance packages to the ex-staff of the Skypower […]
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Mr Nababa assured the public that the service would not relent in ridding its workforce of bad eggs. The Nigerian Correctional Service has dismissed nine officers and retired 25 others compulsorily for offences against standard practices. The service’s spokesman, Umar Abubakar, stated on Sunday in Abuja that four others were issued with letters of warning. […]
The distraught wife said that the news of the abduction of her husband on Friday evening was shocking and traumatic. Adebola Agbaje, the wife of Adigun Agbaje, the kidnapped University of Ibadan (UI) professor, has pleaded for the release of her husband, saying her expected gratuity was not enough to pay the N50 million ransom […]
President Buhari said reasons given to him by the CBN convinced him that the economy stood to benefit from the policy. President Muhammadu Buhari has declared support for the move by the Central Bank of Nigeria to redesign the three largest denominations of the naira. According to a Sunday statement by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, […]
A robbery at a stall selling chicken feet left seven people dead and four more injured in Finetown, Ennerdale in Johannesburg. Police spokesperson Brigadier Brenda Muridili has confirmed that the vendors apparently resisted having their chicken feet stolen and war broke out. Witnesses said the vendors threw stones at the suspects and damaged their vehicle’s […]
MOGADISHU — The Ministry of Information of the Federal Republic of Somalia condemns yesterday’s heinous terrorist attack in Mogadishu that left above 100 innocent civilians killed and over one hundred more injured. Such cowardly and reprehensible acts of terrorism will not in any way deter the absolute commitment of the Somali people and their government […]
MOGADISHU — Turkey has condemned car bombings in Somalia’s capital on Saturday which killed dozens and wounded scores. The attack occurred on a day when the president, PM, and other senior officials were meeting to discuss combating the terror group. “We are deeply saddened to learn that many people lost their lives and were injured […]
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the twin car bomb explosions in Mogadishu today, which claimed the life of M24 TV journalist Mohamed Isse Hassan and severely injured two other journalists and a camera assistant. Journalist Mohamed Isse Hassan, nicknamed Kona, was killed Saturday in a double car bombing as he, two other […]
MOGADISHU — Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud along with Galmudug state leader and ministers visited the site of twin blasts in Mogadishu on Saturday. The president speaking to the media said at least 100 people were killed in the attack at a busy junction in the capital and the toll could rise in the country’s […]
The organisers have been maintaining almost complete radio silence about the talks, making it very difficult to assess progress. The Ethiopian peace talks in South Africa — which had been widely expected to end on Sunday — will continue into Monday, sources said. “They’re not going to conclude tonight,” one observer said on Sunday evening. […]
Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. Back in 2020, at the outbreak of the Corona virus pandemic, I started a regular conversation with you that came to be popularly known as Fellow Ghanaians. It was a time of great fear of the unknown, and the entire world felt at risk. I came into your homes regularly to […]
The United Nations (UN) has increased its grant to Ghana by 25 per cent to implement reforms to recover from the global challenges and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. “Through a proposed new Cooperation Framework, once signed, the UN in Ghana will commit at least $500m to support Ghana’s development priorities between 2023 and 2025,” […]
Nairobi — Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua now says that police officers are barred from storming churches to effect arrests. Speaking in Kandara Constituency during a thanksgiving service on Sunday, Gachagua said the officers will be required to “wait for offenders outside”. “No policeman or any other law enforcement agency will ever again disrespect the church […]
Critically endangered forest elephants use their acute senses of hearing and smell to detect poachers while they are still some distance away and well before they have fired a shot, a new study in the Democratic Republic of Congo suggests. To gather data, researchers used a grid of 50 passive acoustic sensors that spanned more […]
Khartoum — Sudan’s police force raided an exhibition at an art gallery in the El Zuhoor neigbourhood in Khartoum on October 20, resulting in the arrests of nine guests, several art pieces being confiscated, and one destroyed in the process, according to the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS). The exhibition displayed the […]
The recent spate of flooding has left Nigeria counting losses since early October, as over 2.5 million people are affected. In what is fast becoming an annual occurrence, many parts of Nigeria have experienced flooding and the correlating loss of land, lives and livelihoods. Despite historically difficult incidents, the recent case of flooding appears to […]
Addressing the rising inflation in Africa while supporting economic growth and cushioning the vulnerable against economic shocks requires an urgent but careful approach. Multiple shocks have gripped a world economy already ravaged by the pandemic. Sub-Saharan Africa has been facing one of the most difficult economic circumstances recently, with the pandemic’s delayed recovery, soaring energy […]
Food security in Africa has always been the centre stage of all major global meetings. Photos of starving naked children have been paraded so much that hunger and Africa have become synonymous. However, after years of talks, recommendations, solutions, funding, monitoring, evaluation, more talks, more recommendations, more funding… and then more years of new talks, […]