King Edward Dakoro, a traditional ruler in Nembe, Bayelsa State has urged the Niger Delta region to cooperate with the Federal Government as it pursues passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). Dakoro, a former Minister of Petroleum spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Port Harcourt. He said that the […]

By Elizabeth Adegbesan MONEY MARKET The cost of servicing Nigeria’s public debt has increased quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) by 88.8 percent to N803.69 billion in third quarter of last year (Q3’20), from N425.7 billion in Q2’20. The amount was used to service the country’s debt stock of N32.22 trillion during the review period. The figures in the ‘Nigeria […]

National President of the Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria,AISSON Dr. Ona Ekhomu, has advised politicians to imbibe the traits of servant- leadership and selflessness that defined the life of former Military Administrator of Imo and the Lagos States, late Rear Admiral Ndubisi Kanu.

US filmmaker Tyler Perry will receive an honorary statuette at this year’s Oscars for his humanitarian work, including efforts to get the entertainment industry safely back to work during the coronavirus pandemic, the Academy announced Thursday. The Black entertainment mogul has set up a self-contained, 330-acre (133-hectare) production “campus” at a Civil War-era Confederate military […]

Everyone can enjoy and absolutely adore the delights of parenthood. It is the most beautiful moment of bonding with a progeny, and it is often a moment that an expectant mother longs for. It becomes undeniably beautiful when this feeling is combined with one’s desires.

China’s economy grew last year at its slowest pace since transformative market reforms of the 1970s, according to an AFP poll of economists, but finished the year strongly on an accelerating coronavirus recovery. The average forecast of analysts from 13 financial institutions was a 2.0 percent expansion for the world’s second-largest economy, down sharply from […]

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kano State command, on Thursday, arraigned an 18-year-old man, Isma’eel Abubakar, before a Senior Magistrates’ Court over alleged defilement of a minor. The defendant, who lives at Kofar Ruwa Quarters, Kano, is standing trial on one-count charge of rape. The Prosecution Counsel, Halliru Isa, told the court […]

US President-elect, Joe Biden, unveiled plans Thursday for fighting Covid and injecting $1.9 trillion into a battered US economy, but already his ambitious first 100 days agenda is overshadowed by the looming Senate trial of his soon-to-be predecessor Donald Trump. Biden promised “a new chapter” for the nation on the day after Trump became the […]

The Gambia has registered two cases of a British-identified coronavirus mutation which is likely more infectious, the nation’s government said on Thursday. Gambian Health Minister Ahmadou Samateh told lawmakers the strain was detected in two people entering the country — both of whom were asymptomatic — but did not give further details. “People coming from […]

Parler on Thursday urged a US judge to order Amazon’s web division to allow the conservative-favoured network back online after cutting it off for failure to rein in incitements to violence. Attorneys for Parler and Amazon argued their rival positions by telephone before the US. District Judge, Barbara Rothstein, who promised a prompt decision. Parler […]

THE coronavirus pandemic has contributed a lot to the current food inflation ravaging Nigerian families. Coming in February/March, the beginning of the planting season, and forcing a prolonged national lockdown, it prevented many of our farmers from sowing their seeds. Food inflation, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, rose from 16.66 per cent […]

Frontline Nigerian government critic and a former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has given a strong warning to the Muslim Forum saying any attack on Bishop Hassan Kukah would spiral out of control and beyond anyone’s expectation if not properly managed.

Sudan has condemned the violation of its airspace and borders by an Ethiopian military plane as the tension between the two neighbours escalates. The state-run Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported on Wednesday that the Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the incident as a “dangerous escalation that could have severe consequences and will result in […]

Shares in Chinese technology giant Xiaomi collapsed more than 11 per cent in Hong Kong trade Friday after the US put it on a blacklist banning Americans from investing in it, as the Trump administration ramps up its battle with Beijing. The company, one of the world’s biggest smartphone makers and considered China’s answer to […]

Nuclear-armed North Korea unveiled a new submarine-launched ballistic missile at a military parade in Pyongyang, state media reported Friday, in a show of strength days before Joe Biden’s inauguration as US president. The display came after the five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers’ Party, where leader Kim Jong Un decried the US as his country’s […]