By Peter Duru, Makurdi The Nigeria Export Promotion Council, NEPC, has commenced the training of 200 Benue youths in ICT skills and digital innovations for e-exporting and trade. Addressing the participants, the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of NEPC, Dr. Ezra Yakusak, said training being done in collaboration with Aphri media with the theme; Digital and […]

By Sola Isola – Ibadan Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO), the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, has moved out of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS). Also, the Chairman of NINAS, Professor Banji Akintoye, has left his chairmanship role in the organization with immediate effect. In a statement signed by Prof. Akintoye and […]

There is hardly anyone left who is not familiar with the bitcoin bull market. A few but dramaticcorrections made this historic run more exciting. Blockchain technology is here to stay. And theway legacy institutions and governments react will determine the future of finance. The globalbroker OctaFX prepared an expert article exploring whether peaceful co-existence might […]

By Prince Okafor Nigerian independent oil and gas company, Seplat Energy Plc together with a partner, is in competitive discussions to acquire ExxonMobil’s Nigerian shallow water business. The Energy Company listed on both the London and Nigerian Stock Exchanges disclosed this in a statement issued on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX). It would be recalled […]

By Ediri Ejoh Average Nigeria’s unutilized power generation has increased year-on-year, YoY, to 3,008.18 Megawatts, MW in 2021, from 1,030.80 MW in 2013, indicating an increase of 291 per cent in the past eight years, due mainly to lack of infrastructure. This showed that adequate investment has not been made over the years to transmit […]

By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The Cross River State Police Command has arrested a middle-aged man, Godswill Ezekiel Ugbe for allegedly attempting to sell his employer’s car for a paltry 350,000 naira in Calabar. The suspect, who was arrested by the Anti Kidnapping and Cultism Squad AKCS, while driving the car to the potential buyer […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri – Abuja Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, berated the Department of State Services, DSS, for granting a former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, private access to his client in detention. Ejiofor, who described Kalu’s visit […]

The Akwa Ibom Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says it has secured convictions for 35 out of the 353 drug suspects arrested in the last five months. Mrs Obot Bassey, the state NDLEA Commander, disclosed this when she spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Uyo on Tuesday. Bassey said […]

Alarmed by a possible COVID-19 4th wave, the Nigerian Infectious Diseases Society, NIDS, on Tuesday urged the Federal government to ramp up the stock of COVID-19 vaccines available in the country as well as consider the immediate implementation of booster doses for fully vaccinated adults

Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has appealed to stakeholders in oil rich communities in the Niger Delta region to continue to build bridges to achieve harmonious peace and tranquillity.