Kankara school abduction: How I escaped my kidnappers — Student

Kankara school abduction: How I escaped my kidnappers — Student

A tree trunk, some quick thinking, and crawling several miles through the forest helped one of the abducted students of Katsina State Science and Technology, Kankara, escape from kidnappers. The 17-year-old student (whose name we can’t reveal) was abducted alongside more than 500 others from Government Science Secondary School in the north-western Katsina state on […]
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2 dead, others injured as police intensify efforts to rescue abducted foreigner

2 dead, others injured as police intensify efforts to rescue abducted foreigner

The Police Command in Oyo State on Monday confirmed the death of a soldier and a civilian in their attempt to rescue a foreign national, Hassan Mills, from his abductors. Police spokesman in the state, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, said in a statement that gunmen abducted Mills on Saturday as he was getting to his Panorama […]

GAGE Awards unveils academy for 2021 edition

GAGE Awards unveils academy for 2021 edition

The GAGE Awards has officially unveiled its academy of judges for the second edition themed ‘Year of the Digital Takeover’. The GAGE Awards has become a standard for recognizing and rewarding outstanding digital work on the African continent. Industry experts have expressed excitement at the second edition based on the credibility of the process and […]

Realtypros IGL officially launches Katopp apartments and Terraces, with grand groundbreaking, award ceremony

Realtypros IGL officially launches Katopp apartments and Terraces, with grand groundbreaking, award ceremony

Realtypros Investment Global Limited, Nigeria’s leading real estate development, and property brokerage company, on Friday, December 11th, 2020 officially launched her affordable residential housing project named Katopp Apartments and Terraces in Abijo, Lekki. The launch featured a grand groundbreaking ceremony attended by several notable real estate personalities comprising property developers, high – end property realtors, […]

FPIC, palm oil firm and the women of Okomu

FPIC, palm oil firm and the women of Okomu

It was in recognition of the socio-economic dislocations industrial expansions can cause locals that the principle of Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) came into being.

Exxon Mobil says will lower greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 2025

Exxon Mobil says will lower greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 2025

Oil major Exxon Mobil Corp said on Monday it planned to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions over the next five years, an official said. Pete Trelenberg, the ExxonMobil Director of Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change, said this during a news conference on Monday. The company added that as investors and climate change campaigners ratchet up […]

Zugacoin breaks another record, becomes first African coin on CoinMarket cap

Zugacoin breaks another record, becomes first African coin on CoinMarket cap

ZUGACOIN has broken more records since its official launch into the cryptocurrency market on December 1, 2020. The most valuable and expensive Cryptocurrency in the world is now officially on CoinMarket Cap making its CEO, Archbishop Sam Zuga, the first African to list his Coin on CoinMarket Cap. With this feat, Zugacoin continues to gain […]

‘We don’t have report of SPDC staff involved in oil theft’

‘We don’t have report of SPDC staff involved in oil theft’

By Prince Okafor The management of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC, has disclosed that it does not have any formal report of its staff members or contractors involved in pipeline vandalism and crude oil theft. This is coming against the backdrop of a research conducted by Dutch Environmental Group, Milieudefensie, at Ikarama, a […]

Delta LG Election: Ethiope East PDP group protests zoning of Chairmanship position

Delta LG Election: Ethiope East PDP group protests zoning of Chairmanship position

*Says no time was zoning observed in Ethiope East, which could destroy the party The Ethiope East PDP Study Group, yesterday reacted to a statement that the position of the local government council Chairman has been zoned to Okpara Inland, Ethiope East local government area of Delta state, describing the statement as mere propaganda and […]

Nigeria’s oil output drops by 14% to an average of 1.5mb/d

Nigeria’s oil output drops by 14% to an average of 1.5mb/d

***As Bonny Light price hovers at $49 per barrel By Udeme Akpan, Ediri Ejoh & Prince Okafor Nigeria might be under pressure to fund its N13.8 trillion 2021 budget following a significant drop of its oil output by 14.08 percent in the first 10 months of 2020, according to data obtained from the Organisation of […]

Green pandemic recovery essential to close climate action gap — UN report

Green pandemic recovery essential to close climate action gap — UN report

***Says right policies could cut up to 25% from predicted 2030 emissions By Kingsley Adegboye with Agency report A green pandemic recovery could cut up to 25 per cent off predicted 2030 greenhouse gas emissions and bring the world closer to meeting the 2°C goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a new UN […]