Former Executive Director of Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI), Dr. Oluwasina Olabanji has said that Nigeria spends $5.1 billion on wheat importation annually. The Olabanji made this known at a two-day inception workshop organized to mark the start of Read more…
Category: Environment
President Biden has invited 40 world leaders to a virtual climate summit next month, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdoğan, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The summit is intended to Read more…
Tokyo has asked the UN nuclear watchdog for support and back-up for its plans to empty a huge stash of radioactive water stored around the Fukushima power plant into the sea – a plan that’s sparked fears of an ecological Read more…
At least six persons have been confirmed dead as a tanker laden with fuel ran into two Keke tricycles at Ntak Inyang Village, some few kilometres to Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. It was gathered that the truck immediately Read more…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, on Sunday, assured that the ongoing war against Boko Haram will soon be over. Attahiru, who was in Yobe to play morale boosting visit on the troops of Sector 2 Read more…
Four people were killed and two others injured in Almaty, Kazakhstan, after a Soviet-designed Antonov An-26 plane crash-landed at the city’s airport. The aircraft belonged to the Kazakh National Security Committee (NSC). The intelligence agency confirmed that its plane with Read more…
Some traders in Onitsha plastic market in Anambra State are counting their losses following an early morning inferno which broke out at about 1:50am on Friday in a plaza in the market. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, CSP Read more…
….as Sanwo-Olu confirms completion of maintenance, rehabilitation work Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Saturday confirmed the successful completion of the maintenance and rehabilitation of Third Mainland Bridge. Sanwo-Olu through his official twitter handle on Saturday said, “Dear Lagosians, Read more…
The men of Nnewi police and the vigilante were determined to do whatever that was necessary to stamp out an obvious multi criminal gangs terrorizing business owners, residents, and other road users around the 100 Foot Road axis of the Read more…
At least eight fire incidents were recorded in less than 24 hours in various parts of Anambra state, the State Fire Chief, Engr. Martin Agbili has said. Agbili, who confirmed the incidents in a statement, attributed majority of the inferno Read more…
The decision to build the natural gas link from Russia to Europe was made long ago and ditching the project may lead to an array of legal trouble, Germany’s Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety warns. “If we Read more…
From David Onwuchekwa, Nnewi The General Manager of Louis Carter Industries Limited, Nnewi, Anambra State, Engr Ndubisi Okoli has sent a Save-Our-Soul message to both Federal and Anambra State government to come to the rescue of the company to Read more…