By Agency Report Eight ministers from the Horn of African region have vowed to develop a comprehensive roadmap to help boost food security amid a looming famine in some countries, the regional bloc said on Tuesday. “The failure of four consecutive rainfall seasons over the last three years has pushed communities in Arid and […]
Nigeria’s Flamingos lost their opening match in their campaign at the 2022 U-17 Women’s World Cup in India bowing to Germany in a 2-1 loss. Captain Dah Zossu Alvine was brought down in the 29th minute and 15-year-old Miracle Usani gave Nigeria the lead as she excellently fired the resulting free-kick into the net. The […]
Kenya’s apex bank, on Tuesday, announced the successful separation of telecommunications and mobile money business of the country’s second-largest telecom, Airtel Kenya, a first in the east African nation. The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), in a statement issued in Nairobi, said it welcomed the milestone done by Airtel Networks Kenya Ltd, which sets a […]
Nigeria has opened a new office in Cairo to provide visa application, passport, Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) and National Identity Number (NIN) services in Egypt. Mr Abdul-Razaq Musa, the Executive Assistant to the President of the Nigeria-Egypt Cultural and Socio-Economic Forum (NESCEF), made this known in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in […]
Crying and clutching toys, traumatised relatives gathered at a child daycare centre in Thailand where a former policeman had slain 34 people, primarily children. Government buildings flew flags at half-mast on Friday to mourn victims, in which 23 of them were children of the carnage in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 kilometres (310 miles) northeast […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye has called on Britain to recognise the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital and take serious measures against settlements. Ishtaye made the remarks during a meeting held in the West Bank city of Ramallah with Stephen Hickey, Director for the Middle East and North […]
The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) says its maiden conference on “Linking Tourism, Culture and the Creative Industries’’, holding in Lagos will open new vistas in global tourism. The Secretary-General of UNWTO, Mr Zurab Pololikashvili, stated this at the 65th meeting of the Organisation’s Regional Commission for Africa (CAF) in Arusha, Tanzania. The […]
The South Korean Interior Ministry, on Thursday, announced a government reorganisation plan under which the gender ministry would be abolished. The ministry said that the veterans’ affairs agency would be elevated to the ministry level and a separate body for consular services would be newly established. The plan, announced by Interior Minister Lee Sang-min, requires […]
France is launching a televised electricity forecast as part of a national energy-saving plan that will be presented on Thursday, Le Parisien newspaper reported. After the weather report and between other programmes, information about the load on the power grid would be broadcast using green, yellow and red symbols to show how much power is […]
By Agency report No fewer than 18 people, seeking to migrate to Europe by crossing the Mediterranean, died in a pair of unrelated boating accidents late on Wednesday, according to Greek officials. One boat sank off the island of Lesbos after encountering strong winds. There were 40 people on board, reportedly all women. By Thursday […]