Two persons died after a diesel-laden tanker crashed and exploded at Kara Bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State on Tuesday. It was gathered that the driver of the truck, with number plate DTM 109 XA, lost control while going toward Ogun State. Eyewitness said the driver crashed the truck against the railings of the […]
A majority of Ghana’s ruling party parliamentarians, on Tuesday, asked the President to sack the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, and his deputy, with a view to “restoring hope in the financial sector”. Ghana is facing its worst economic crisis in a generation. Last week was the cedi currency’s worst in 15 years, falling nearly 20 […]
The trial of an undergraduate, Chidinma Ojukwu, for the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Mr Usifo Ataga, was on Tuesday stalled due to the absence of a prosecution witness. Ojukwu is standing trial before a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square. She is also charged with stealing and […]
An Osun High Court in Osogbo, on Tuesday, ordered the Nigerian Correctional Services to produce Raheem Adedoyin, owner of Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife, alleged to be involved in the murder of one Timothy Adegoke, an Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) a postgraduate student, in court on Nov. 7. The six other defendants standing trial in the murder […]
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) said on Tuesday that it has developed rules to enable micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to raise capital through crowdfunding. Wycliffe Shamiah, the Chief Executive Officer of CMA, said the new rules pave the way for Kenya’s MSMEs, which employ some 15 million people in the workforce, to raise […]
Rowdiness and long queue resurfaced in many fuel stations in Lagos, on Tuesday, following a short supply of petrol, resulting in panic buying by motorists. The NewsZenith reports that queues are beginning to build in some filling stations in Lekki-Aja, Victoria Island, Apapa, Maryland, Onipan, Ikoyi Mjushin and Victoria Island among others. Our correspondent also […]
By Our Correspondent A public affairs analyst, Ayodele Akinsola, has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is endowed with the gift of assembling smart people who can deliver good governance. Akinsola, who is also a veteran journalist, said the APC presidential candidate in the 2023 poll “does not allow […]
Eintracht Frankfurt supervisory board chairman Philip Holzer hopes that every effort was made that Wednesday’s Champions League match against Olympique Marseille remained peaceful. The “war-like’’ scenes from the first game in France don’t happen again. Holzer told Tuesday’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily that “this is a matter for the executive powers. “I am convinced that […]
An appeal has gone to African statisticians and data experts to initiate a road map for the modernisation of the continent’s official statistical systems to provide reliable information for informed decision-making. Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Demeke Mekonnen, made the appeal while addressing the joint opening session of back-to-back […]
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has announced a $5 million additional grant for Nigeria on climate resilience and to boost dry season farming. IFAD said the fund, targeted at smallholder farmers, would help to improve production. Part of it would be used to plant trees to mitigate erosion in the event of a […]