• LG authority, our major challenge, say, market leaders There are indications that the Lagos State Government may be constrained to close the multi-billion naira Ladipo International Spare Parts Market in Mushin over alleged environmental infractions.xhttps://d45fbddab71b61b7483998bbeee35b3e.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html The market, a major contributor to the Read more…
John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, met privately with Pope Francis on Saturday, afterward calling the pope a “compelling moral authority on the subject of the climate crisis” who has been “ahead of the curve.” The former U.S. Secretary Read more…
The 34 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Obinze, near Owerri, has begun the demolition of unserviceable ammunition and explosives. The exercise is contained in a statement issued on Friday in Owerri by the Acting Assistant Director of Army Read more…
Recently, SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company Plc emerged as the Most Profitable Company (Oil & Gas: Exploration and Production), while its Chairman, Dr. ABC Orjiako, was named the Board Chairman of the Year at the Nigerian Investor Value Award (NIVA) organised by Read more…
Senior Special Assistant to Governor Samuel Ortom on Animal Husbandry, Alhaji Shehu Tambaya has again stressed that Benue would not repeal its grazing law no matter the intimidation. Tambaya was reacting against the backdrop of recent spate of Herdsmen attacks Read more…
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has identified a lack of proper consultation and engagement with communities and State Governments within the region as factors sitting on the wheels of progress of the region. Akpabio made the assertion at Strategic Read more…
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 3,400-year-old lost city near Luxor, believed to be the largest ancient settlement ever uncovered in the nation. “Many foreign missions searched for this city and never found it,” Zahi Hawass, who led the team that made the Read more…
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, on Wednesday, disclosed that Nigeria would likely generate $250 million from coconut oil in 2021 as against the $150 million generated from the export of coconut oil and its derivatives in Read more…
A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha-Jet involved in air operations against Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, has lost contact with radar, the Air Force said Thursday morning. This is coming five weeks after a Nigerian Air Force NAF20, B350 Read more…
An inferno at a tanker parking garage in Anguwan Mu’azu , Kaduna South Local Government Area has destroyed 11 articulated vehicles in the garage. Executive Secretary, Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (KASEMA), Abdulahi Hassan, confirmed the development to journalists on Tuesday Read more…
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…
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…