The Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB), a government organ mandated to regulate the coffee industry in the East African nation, said it has started taking measures aimed at boosting the production of the crop. TCB aims at raising production from the current 70,000 tons annually to 300,000 tons, annually, by...
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Airtel Africa has announced that its subsidiary, Airtel Networks Ltd., (Airtel Nigeria) has initiated a process to buy back 8.27 per cent minority shareholdings at N55.81 per share. The Group Company Secretary, Mr Simon O’Hara, disclosed in a statement on Monday in Lagos. The statement noted that the total...
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, have confirmed their participation at the fifth annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP). The two-day conference with the theme “COVID-19 Pandemic: Recovery and Reconstruction in Nigeria” will take...
As Nigeria marks her 61st Independence day, a new group, Global Alliance for Peace and Unity(GAYPU) has called on all Nigerian youths to shield their swords and desist from all forms of violence, hate speech and utterances capable of disintegrating the country. GAYPU also challenged the nation’s youths to...
In Nigeria where the World Health Organization has put male life expectancy at below the age of 60, it is news that a man at the age of 90 is still going strong. His story is that of a family with a strong DNA for survival against all odds....
More than a dozen heads of state and government, from Jordan to Azerbaijan, Kenya, and the Czech Republic, have used offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a far-reaching new investigation by the ICIJ media consortium. The so-called “Pandora Papers” investigation —...
The Nigeria Ambassador to Guinea Bissau, Mr John Usanga says there is no record of any Nigerian in any prison in Guinea Bissau. The Envoy disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the inauguration of a newly constructed Nigeria Chancery building in Bissau,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – No fewer than 101 lives and properties worth N21 million have been saved in 21 fire incidents in the month of in Kano State. This is according to a statement issued on Monday by the Mr. Saminu Abdullahi, the spokesman of The Kano State...
The Police Command in Ogun have arrested two suspected kidnappers, Mohammed Abubakar, 42, and Clinton Niche, 18, while trying to collect ransom money at Agbara area of the state. The Police Spokesman in Ogun, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said this on Monday in a statement issued to newsmen in Ota,...
The Delta State Police has confirmed the recovery of the decomposing body of 23-year-old Delta State-born comedian and social media influencer, Onomuakpokpo Ogheneochukome, popularly known as Brakin Face. The Police Public Relations Officer for Delta State Command, DSP Bright Edafe, told journalists that the popular comedian was found dead...
A meeting of the Governors of the six states of the South South geo-political zone is ongoing at the Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt. Though the agenda for the meeting is not yet known, Punch reports that issues of the Value Added Tax and issues of the Southern...
Federal lawmaker representing Bauchi North senatorial district, Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa has lamented about the worsening insecurity while stating that bandits are terrorists. The Senator who is one of the latest high-profile Nigerians to have joined calls for bandits and their sponsors to be tagged as terrorists, made the claim...
Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who lived under police protection after he got death threats from his 2007 depiction of the Prophet Mohammed has been killed in a car accident. The 75-year-old and two police officers were killed in a collision with an oncoming truck on Sunday, October 3,...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was sworn in Monday for a new five-year term as his government faces a host of challenges including a months-long conflict in the northern region of Tigray. Abiy, who won a landslide election victory in June, took the oath of office administered by Supreme...
The National Association of Resident Doctors has suspended its nationwide strike. President of the association, Dr Dare Ishaya, announced this on Monday while briefing reporters in Abuja following the suspension of the strike by resident doctors which lasted two months. He explained that the association took the decision to...
Fumio Kishida, leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was elected on Monday as the country’s new Prime Minister to succeed Yoshihide Suga. As the ruling coalition led by the LDP controls both chambers, 64-year-old Kishida secured a majority of votes of both the House of Representatives and...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said the country’s COVID-19 cases continues to rise, as 74 new cases were recorded on Sunday. The NCDC said on its website on Monday morning that the additional 74 infections brought the total of infections in...
The Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi, says the online video trending showing a man hanging an AK-47 Riffle purported to be him is mischievous. The Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the minister, Mr Muhammad Abdulkadri, in a statement on Sunday, said there was the need...
Unknown gunmen have reportedly attacked and set fire on the residence of Joe Igbokwe, a Special Adviser on Drainage and Water Resources to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. It was learnt that Igbokwe’s house was not the only building that was attacked in Nnewi during the incident on...