Foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Korea hit a record high last year. This is due to surging investment in the manufacturing industry, government data showed on Tuesday. The reported FDI grew 3.2 per cent over the year to 30.45 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, topping 30 billion dollars for the first time, according to […]
The Police, on Monday, said they neutralised a suspected terrorist and repelled his group’s attack on Magamar-Jibia in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. The state command’s spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, announced this in a statement Monday evening in Katsina. “Today Monday, Jan. 2, at about 0430 hours, terrorists in their numbers, shooting sporadically […]
Following a fresh outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus at a farm in west Denmark, authorities say they will cull 50,000 chickens. The country’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries announced this in a press statement in Copenhagen on Monday. “Deadly and highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus infected the flock. “As a result, […]
The Libyan authorities, on Monday, said they discovered eight unidentified bodies in the city of Tarhuna, some 90 kilometres south of the capital Tripoli. “The field teams from the Excavation Department recovered eight unidentified bodies from a dump site in Tarhuna.” The General Authority for Research and Identification announced this in a statement. Read Related […]
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki expressed his outrage on Monday to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal over the celebration of the birthday of the controversial Ukrainian nationalist, Stepan Bandera. On Jan. 1, the Ukrainian authorities held a series of events on the occasion of Bandera’s birthday. “I don’t have enough words of indignation about all […]
PDP governorship candidate in Lagos State, Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), says elites’ apathy to the democratic process in Nigeria had slowed down gains and dividends of democratic rules. Adediran, who is the convener of the Lagos-4-Lagos Movement, made the remarks in an interaction with newsmen in Lagos. He said that until elites get involved in the […]
The PDP governorship candidate for Lagos State, Dr Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (a.k.a Jandor), says he will establish an airline for the state if elected governor in the 2023 general election. Adediran told newsmen in Lagos on Thursday that the state had enough resources to establish an airline. He said that the establishment of an airline […]
By Our Correspondent The PDP governorship candidate in Lagos, Olajide Adediran, says he will create more LCDAs if elected in the 2023 general elections. He said that he has no plan to cancel the existing 37 LCDAs in the state as is being rumoured in some quarters. Adediran told newsmen in Lagos on Thursday that […]
A US-based caregiver, Dr Oluwatoyin Iseyemi, on Thursday, paid the medical bills of many indigent patients at the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute-Metta, Lagos. Iseyemi, who is of the Nigerian Care Provider (NCP), said that the gesture ”is in fulfilment of my promises to alleviate burdens of people during festive season”. She paid the medical expenses […]
Seven members of the Al-Mu’minaat (The Believing Women) Muslim Organisation, died in a ghastly road accident at Odogbolu in Ogun State on Wednesday. Seven others are in critical conditions and initially rushed to the General Hospital in Ijebu-Ode. The NewsZenith reports that among the dead were pregnant mother, nursing mother and babies. It was gathered […]