Pope Francis met Friday with former US vice president Al Gore, who is in Rome for a three-day summit sponsored by his “Climate Reality Project.” According to a statement from the Holy See Press Office, Gore praised the Pope for Read more…
Category: Environment
President Bola Tinubu has sympathised with traders affected by Thursday’s fire incident in Karu Market and urged caution and adherence to essential safety measures to forestall a recurrence. This is contained in a statement signed by Special Adviser to the Read more…
Politics is said to be holding down the takeoff of the Onitsha River Port after it has been commissioned three times since 1983; BusinessDay report. The port, described as a potential cash cow for Nigeria if it becomes operational, may Read more…
Vice President, Oil and Gas at Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Devakumar Edwin, has accused the International Oil Companies (IOCs) in Nigeria of plotting to cripple its operations. Edwin said the IOCs are deliberately frustrating the refinery’s efforts to buy local Read more…
Abdulmumuni Abiola, son of the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, has opened up on how the family detected paternity frauds committed by some of the late patriarch’s widows. The late politician’s son Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor An early morning fire has on Wednesday destroyed two shops housing clothing materials at Afor Nnobi market, by Nnobi roundabout, in Idemili South LGA of Anambra State. Mr Chukwudi Chiketa, Chief Fire Officer, Anambra Fire Service has Read more…
A three-storey building under construction inside Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State (AE-FUTHA) 1, has collapsed. One of the workers was first rescued and taken to the hospital where he is receiving medical attention while the second person Read more…
The Federal Government has reduced the entire corridor of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, from phase two, section two to 55 kilometers including the train tracks. Minister of Works, Engineer Nweze Dave Umahi announced this in Lagos during a routine check on the Read more…
Modular refineries, on Sunday, confirmed the concerns raised by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, on the fact that some mafias in the oil sector were bent at stopping in-country refining of crude oil for the production of Premium Motor Spirit, Read more…
Three hundred beneficiaries of a fully sponsored programme in agriculture by the Abia State Government have arrived the CSS Global farms, Nasarawa State, for a two-week training. Information Officer, Government House, Umuahia, Nwahiwe Cleverson Chinonyerem, in a statement said the State Read more…
Critical stakeholders have highlighted two key factors capable of impinging on the country’s drive towards the adoption of compressed natural gas (CNG) as an alternative to premium motor spirit (PMS), also called petrol, whose cost has risen arbitrarily after the Read more…
A Russian Su-34 supersonic bomber has crashed in the country’s mountainous North Ossetia-Alania region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday morning. Both pilots have been killed. The jet was flying a routine training mission. Preliminary assessment suggests that the aircraft Read more…