By Our Correspondent The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has supported 90 entrepreneurs in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with equipment to promote youth engagement in productive ventures. The Director-General of SMEDAN, Mr Olawale Fasanya, announced this at the closing ceremony of a four-day National Skills Development Initiative (NBSDI) held at […]
By Our Correspondent The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Friday, charged a 19-year-old unemployed man, Abdullahi Aliyu before a Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged drug trafficking. In a five-count charge, bordering on illegal peddling of restricted narcotics, the NDLEA Counsel, Mr Lambert Nor, alleged that Aliyu committed the offence on Oct. […]
A blast rocked a mosque near the office of the Hezb-e-Islami party killing one person and injuring two others in Kabul on Friday. The Hezb-e-Islami party is associated with former Afghan Prime Minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Local TV channel Tolo News TV reported the incident on Friday. “Hekmatyar is unhurt,” the TV channel quoted Obaidullah Bahir, […]
By Oluwashina Iyanda The Nigerian economy sustained its growth performance in the first half of 2022 as its real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.11 per cent from 0.51 per cent in the corresponding quarters of 2021. This is contained in the Half-Year-Activity Report of the Financial Department of the Central bank of Nigeria […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has flayed the tendency of some Chief Executive Officers to encourage corruption in the Local Government (LG) system, thus hindering development at the grassroots. Buhari expressed this feeling at a parley with members of the Senior Executive Course (SEC) No. 44 (2022) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, […]
Prof. Atahiru Jega, a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, says Nigeria is capable of conducting a credible election in 2023 in spite of the current challenges. Jega said this at a Colloquim in honour of Prof. Adele Jinadu, a Senior fellow of Centre of Democracy Development (CDD), to mark his 79th birthday […]
Cambodia issued licenses to 3,176 construction projects, with investments of $1.96 billion as of September, a senior official said on Thursday. Leang Monirith said most foreign investors in the kingdom’s construction and real estate are from China, South Korea and Japan. “Over the last decade, investment in construction has grown steadily, Monirith, Secretary of State […]
India, on Thursday, formally took over the presidency of the Group of 20 (G20), according to the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said India’s G20 presidency would work to promote a universal sense of oneness. Read Related News: India records 474 new COVID-19 cases Last month Modi unveiled the logo and the theme for […]
Indonesia will appeal to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) ruling on a nickel ore trade dispute, President Joko Widodo said on Wednesday. The European Union had sued Indonesia over its nickel ore export ban. Indonesia issued a ban on nickel ore exports in 2020 for a downstream development programme that provides more jobs and welfare […]
Some 3.6 billion people currently face inadequate access to water at least a month per year, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). WMO announced this in its State of Global Water Resources 2021 report, published on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the figure is projected to increase to more than five billion by 2050. The report assessed […]