The Chairman, Sub-Committee of Directors-General of African Customs, Mr Happias Kuzvinzwa, says it is important to develop the capacity of African customs administrations to implement the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) on the continent.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III Tuesday called on the 19 northern Governor to invest on the small Scale Industireies to better the lot of ordinarily citizens across the region.
Sultan Abubakar who spoke in Kano during the second edition of Kano Economic Summit held at the Corronation Hall of Kano Government House said that direct investment on SME’s will create job that would ginger lasting peace in the region.

Expectant mothers have been advised to eat locally made food, especially vegetables and fruits, for the proper development of their unborn babies.

The Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, fixed June 23 to deliver judgment on a suit seeking to remove Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State from office.

Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom was elected Tuesday as the new head of the World Health Organization, diplomats said.

The Monetary Policy Committee has once again retained the Monetary Policy Rate at 14 per cent due to current uncertain economic conditions and high inflation.

The Presidency says the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMAN), Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky is not being detained in prison as being speculated but rather being kept by government in public interest,

A Bill for an Act to establish the National Sports Commission(NSC) to oversee the administration of sports and other related matters was on Tuesday passed by the Senate.

Shareholders of Nestle Nigeria Plc. on Tuesday endorsed a total dividend of N7.93 billion, declared by the company, for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2016.

Rep. Johnson Agbonayinma, Chairman, House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Nigeria-United States of America Relations/Inter-Parliamentary Affairs, has flayed Transparency International’s corruption allegations against the Nigeria Army.

Retired American boxer and President of The Money Gang (TMT), Floyd Mayweather reveals plans to be in Nigeria from the 12th to 14th of June 2017.

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), in Bayelsa has suspended its two weeks strike following the payment of N300 million by the State Government.

The Federal Government has pledged to support in the growth and sustenance of the one-year-old Sierra Leonean National Youth Service scheme.

The Federal Government has inaugurated the gender equality and women empowerment campaign, tagged “HeForShe campaign’’, in Abuja.

France ordered heightened security at sports and cultural events on Tuesday and President Emmanuel Macron said he would set up a new counter-terrorism coordinating body after a suicide bomber killed 22 people at a British concert hall.