Jigawa, El-Meena farms launch $540m Alfalfa export push with Saudi group
The public-private partnership targets the cultivation of 100,000 hectares of premium Alfalfa with projected annual export revenues between $440 million and $540 million. Saudi Arabia's Alkhorayef Group is the technical partner for irrigation infrastructure.
Lumumba canvases adequate funding of African universities to achieve true devt
By Demola Akinyemi, Ilorin Former Director, Kenya Anti-corruption Commission and international mediator, Prof. Patrick Lumumba has said that African universities must be respected and adequately funded if true and effective development must be achieved on the continent. He, however, condemned the current developments whereby “Africa remains the only continent where academics are undervalued while politicians […]
Ex-AGF, Malami, spends third night in EFCC custody
Former Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, is set to spend a third night in Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, custody due to his inability to meet the bail conditions set by investigators.
ECS: Employers’ manipulation of payroll records, one of gravest threats to workers’ safety — NSITF
*Staff drags employer, Fund to court over non-compliance By Victor Ahiuma-Young One of the high points of the 12th National Triennial Delegates’ Conference, NTDC, of the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions, ASSBIFI, held recently in Lagos, was the public confirmation that Nigerian workers are more vulnerable today than ever, not because […]
Family of 3 die in Otedola Bridge auto crash
By Evelyn Usman & Olasunkanmi Akoni Three, yet to be identified members of the same family, father, mother and their young child were recovered dead in the early hours of yesterday, in a multi auto crash, involving four vehicles at Lagos State Secretariat, inward Otedola Bridge, along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway. Men of the Lagos State […]
Court stops transfer of 13-hectare Lekki property in N21.5bn sale dispute
By Innocent Anaba The High Court of Lagos State sitting in Igbosere, has issued far-reaching pre-emptive orders restraining Industrial and General Insurance Plc, IGI, and The Four H Nigeria Limited from transferring or tampering with a large expanse of land in the Lekki Peninsula after a property development company, Bravematt Property and Investment Limited, alleged […]
