Russia has been able to navigate Western sanctions well enough to push oil exports above levels reached before its war on Ukraine — and new data suggests that Moscow has China and India to thank for that. In the first Read more…
Month: April 2023
The United States and its allies should focus on promoting peace in Ukraine instead of “encouraging war” by arming Kiev, Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on Saturday as he concluded a state visit to China, his country’s primary trading partner. Read more…
The Nigerian government has said the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, never promised to transmit election results electronically. This was disclosed by the minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in London when he concluded Read more…
Nigerian crypto-based fintech, Lazerpay is shutting down operations after unsuccessful fundraising attempts. In a statement issued via its official Twitter handle on Thursday, the CEO, Njoku Emmanuel, said Lazerpay ceased operation after multiple fruitless efforts to raise funds for the Read more…
A pressure group in Abuja, the Elections Transparency Group (ETG) has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Ccairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, of the consequences of the commission’s disobedience to the judgement of the Supreme Court, reaffirming Chief Edozie Njoku Read more…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has vowed that nobody could force him to leave Nigeria. Mr Obi, who recently claimed that he was under pressure to flee the country, said he Read more…
Against the backdrop of a flat rate forecast by the International Monetary Fund, IMF, for Nigeria’s economic growth rate in the 2023 and 2024, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, seems to be impressed, and is set to sustain its Read more…
A Chinese company bought at least $7.4 million worth of copper alloy ingots from a plant in a Russian-annexed region of Ukraine that is subject to Western sanctions, according to Russian customs data reviewed by Reuters. China has not imposed Read more…
Some EU nations supporting Ukraine have started to doubt whether Kiev will be able to recapture large swathes of territory this year, Bloomberg has reported. Even a modest advance would likely result in heavy casualties among Ukrainian personnel and require Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor There is disquiet among teachers in Anambra State who alleged that their take-home pay is being fraudulently fiddled with by certain officials. Some of the teachers who spoke with our correspondent in Ekwusigo Local Goverment Area of Read more…
At the backdrop of the imminent assumption of office, the World Bank Group, WBG, has given a long list of challenges that need to addressed in the immediate term by the new leadership of the Federal Government. The WBG President, Read more…
The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) it lacked necessary jurisdiction to enforce a purported decision of a United States District court that ordered the forfeiture of the sum of $460,000 in some US bank Read more…