A retired Director of the CBN, Mr Chris Nemedia, on Monday urged the Federal Government to be less-dependent on trading in crude oil in the international market. Nemedia, who made the plea in an interview with newsmen in Lagos, said that processed commodities were more profitable to trade in. `Emphasis should be on adding value to the primary commodities like oil before exporting them in order to get the desired yield like other nations from natural resources

“That fateful day, he banged the door, but no response from any of his neighbours, “he said. The prosecutor said that the accused damaged the door to gain entrance into the passage that led to his apartment. “When the accused finally entered, he sighted the complainant sleeping in the passage; he went angrily to attack him for not opening the door for him. “In the process of punches between the accused and the neighbour, the accused bit off his nose.” he said.

A housewife, Aisha Ibrahim, on Monday sought a separation from her husband, Nuhu, before a Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court, Aso Pada, Nasarawa State, over lack of care. At the hearing, Aisha, 28, told the court that she got married to her Nuhu sometime in 2014 according to Islamic rite. She said that she had been solely responsible for her up-keep and that of the only child of the marriage since she married her husband about two years ago.

Four worshippers were killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque in northern Cameroon on Monday, a security source said, five days after a similar attack left 12 people dead. Monday’s blast hit the village of Nguetchewe in Cameroon’s Far North region, in an area near the border with Nigeria regularly targeted by Boko Haram jihadists. “The toll of this attack is four dead and two injured,” the source, who was at the scene of the attack, told AFP.

Dr Uthman Mubashir, Kwara Coordinator of the Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN), on Monday said about seven million children in the country are malnourished. Mubashir told newsmen in Ilorin that two out of every three children are not properly fed. According to him, the mortality rate due to malnutrition is high and running into two digits.

In Ghana, wood fuel use is dominant in rural households.

In Ghana, wood fuel use is dominant in rural households.

In Ghana, wood fuel use is dominant in rural households.

British bank Standard Chartered was the first to roll out blind-friendly ATMs in 2012, but it was a far more limited roll out with only a handful of machines — and those have since been out of commission

The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Niger State has won all the 24 Local Government Areas Chairmanship positions in the election conducted on Saturday in the state.

The Committee for the Defence of Democracy (CDD) has raised alarm over an alleged plan by the federal government to arrest former President Goodluck Jonathan over allegations surrounding the purported $2.1 million arms deal.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has condemned in strongest terms, the recent attacks on the oil and gas facilities across the state and called on all Deltans to cooperate with the security agencies to unmask the criminals behind the heinous crime.

Serena Williams Monday said she was stunned by the reaction to a Facebook post she made that went viral, comparing herself to Supergirl after chasing down a hapless telephone thief.

The Islamic State group may be losing ground in its strongholds of Iraq and Syria but as the attack in Indonesia this month showed, the jihadists are rallying other groups under their banner, analysts say. In most cases, these groups have no direct contact with the leadership of IS’s self-proclaimed caliphate, but the group is […]

The military, yesterday, invaded some Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, with gunboats in search of militants, who carried out a three-day bombing of crude oil and gas pipelines in the state, from last Thursday.
This came as ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, wrote President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that top members of his party, All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa and Delta states were responsible for the ongoing vandalization of crude oil and gas pipelines in the creeks of Delta state.