The President of Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Dr Al-Mujtaba Abubakar today on behalf of the Executive Council and Management of the Chamber Congratulates the Minister, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development (FMWASD, Mrs Pauline Tallen on her 63rd birthday. Dr Abubakar who congratulated Mrs Tallen stated that the Minister’s support…
The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has announced a new transport management system for Osun state with a triple objectives of securing the motor parks, creating thousands of jobs and increasing the state’s internally generated revenue. In a statement by the Spokesperson to the Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, the State Governor described…
By Lydia-Claire Halliday The African aviation market has been underserved for a long time. Before 2020, only 9% of Africa’s air traffic was between African countries, the rest being intercontinental. And today, globally, the region accounts for less than 2% of total air traffic despite being home to around 17% of the world’s population. Africa urgently…
An Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has appealed to the Zamfara State Government (ZASG) to pay the entitlements of retired teachers, contract workers and other retirees before the gubernatorial elections are held in February 2023. According to the group, it is only by doing so that the state government can claim…
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved an equity investment of $20 million in Evolution Fund III, a pan-African clean and sustainable energy private equity fund that is mobilising about $400 million into renewable energy and resource-efficiency assets across sub-Saharan Africa over a 10-year period. Inspired Evolution Investment Management is…
Aggrieved students of Taraba State University in Jalingo, the state capital, took to the streets on Monday to protest as unpaid lecturers boycotted the school’s semester examinations billed to commence today. The students were supposed to start their examination today but the inability of the lecturers to get paid impeded the process. In protest, the…
The leader of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Abubakar Magaji Olawoyin is dead. Olawoyin, 57, died in the early hours of Monday following a brief illness. This was confirmed in a statement by the Chairman, Kwara State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Awolola Ayokunle. He said the late Olawoyin will be buried according…
The founder of DAAR Communications Limited, owners of AIT Radio and Television, Chief Raymond Dokpesi has been released by the United Kingdom police. Dokpesi was arrested yesterday at Heathrow Airport in London. Media sources had it that Dokpesi was delayed on Sunday by Immigration after a trip from Frankfurt on a Lufthansa airlines flight that…
Thirty-nine people were killed and more than 100 others injured when two buses crashed in a head-on collision overnight on an arterial road in Senegal’s central Kaffrine region, President Macky Sall told reporters Sunday. Images of the incident showed the completely mangled front end of a white bus, with blood-flecked seats, personal items and a…
A woman, on Sunday, died on her way to church, after falling off her husband’s motorcycle at Fajol axis of Obantoko area in Abeokuta. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the incident happened as the husband of the deceased lost control in the process of avoiding a head-on collision with another motorcycle coming…
