Amb. Lawrence Obisakin, Nigeria Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, said that a new identification card would soon be issued to prospective investors in order to boost economic activities between the neighbouring ECOWAS countries.

South Africa will name public service officials convicted of corruption, a cabinet minister said Sunday, amid criticism authorities are too soft on graft.

More prospective architects and steel structural engineers in Nigeria have adopted welded steel pipes for its cost saving benefits in construction projects in the country. The Managing Director of Nigeria Gas and Steel Ltd (NGSL), Hasib Moukarim revealed this in a press statement made available to news men in Lagos.

By the year 2020 the Warri Industrial Business Park (WIBP) would have generated about a hundred thousand jobs in the country, especially in Delta State.

There is a strong indication that the country’s Real GDP growth is to drop to 6.5 percent from a seven percent maintained over the years.

Vice Chairman of UK’s Business Council For Africa Mr Clive Carpenter weekend in London urged investors to engage in genuine deals, and shun corruption while doing business in Nigeria. Carpenter, who stated this at the 2nd NTA Business Investment Forum and Exhibition, said it was possible to do good business without bribery and corruption in Nigeria.

The United States, US, is proposing a $16 billion settlement to British Petroleum, BP, over the 2010 oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to reports, the settlement would cover fines BP owes under the Clean Water Act, a federal water pollution law, as well as payments under the Natural Resources Damage Assessment, an environmental evaluation.

China has announced an increase, effectively Monday, in prices of petroleum products in the country. The increase, the first since September, is amid gains in oil benchmarks since the start of the year.

A splinter group of the Islamic Boko Haram group, led by Sheikh Abdulaziz Ibn Adam on Saturday insisted that it was ready to dialogue with government to the group’s current bloody campaign.

The West African nation of Benin on Sunday reacted harshly after France warned its citizens there to be on alert for possible revenge kidnappings or attacks over its military offensive in Mali.

KANO (AFP) – A disagreement over a football pitch set off sectarian riots in a central Nigerian town that killed at least one person and left homes, mosques and churches burnt, officials said Sunday. Authorities have slapped a round-the-clock curfew on the town of Wukari, located in Taraba state, following Saturday’s rioting, which was said to […]

By Sola Ogundipe Health issues concerning women and girls will be on the front burner in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as from May 28-30 Nigeria, Africa and the rest of the modern world, are set to place health issues concerning women and girls on the front burner as over 5,000 reproductive health experts, advocates, leaders in […]

By Clifford Solomon RESIDENTS of Kula Kingdom in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State have been thrown into mourning following an outbreak of cholera that lhas claimed the lives of at least seven children. The development which has been recurrent in the oil-rich kingdom is due to lack of potable  water and paucity of […]

EIGHTY one-year-old Professor Adetokunbo Lucas, Adjunct Professor of International Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, front line researcher and high profile board member of the world’s most respected health agencies was one of Nigeria’s youngest professors. His commitment to the eradication of tropical infectious diseases such as guinea worm, polio, as well as the Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs, is legendary. In this piece, the renowned medical practitioner writes about the giant strides Nigeria is making against the menace of NTDs.