Residents of Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State and its environs are groaning over the acute shortage of drinking water that has hit the capital city recently. Most residents are currently entertaining fears of an outbreak of waterborne disease as they source their drinking water from River Niger. “We treat raw water from River Niger…
Ex-Niger Delta militants have urged companies and businesses that left the region following the era of militancy to return because they have resolved to ensure uninterrupted peace in the region henceforth. The former militant warlords, who also called on interventionist agencies to work together with them to sustain the peace and ensure the development of…
The former FSB Managing Director, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen has said that the nation and its economy are in a free fall with sharp unraveling of people’s ways of life. According to him, the free fall in deterioration also includes people’s dignity, self-worth and some established institutions in the country. Hayatu-Deen raised the alarm, yesterday (Saturday) in…
Aliko Dangote, chairman of Dangote Group and Africa’s richest person, says the refinery will begin processing crude by the third quarter of 2022. According to bloomberg the business mogul said mechanical work on the refinery is done, and “hopefully before the end of the third quarter we should be in the market”. He said this…
A British Journalist working for Voice of America and Aljazerra , Henry Wilkins has narrated his ordeal in the hands of mutinying soldiers in troubled Burkina Faso. In series of tweets , Wilkins explained how the protesting soildiers apprehended him and his colleagues and later passed seriea of demands to the authorities. “BurkinaFaso Mutiny –…
By Ted McCoy(Contribute to Globe and Mail) Kaycee Madu is on leave from his position as Alberta’s Minister of Municipal Affairs, pending a probe into whether a call to Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee to discuss a traffic stop was an attempt to interfere with the administration of justice. The scandal around Kaycee Madu’s actions…
Germany holds the presidency of the G7 in 2022. We take a look at the Group of Seven and the goals of the German government 2022 is the third time that Germany has assumed the G7 presidency. The German government has set itself a number of goals for its one-year presidency of this group of seven leading…
A Mauritanian delegation to Bamako, including Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the Minister of Interior and the Director General of Security, has met the Malian authority to reveal the circumstances surounding the killing of seven Mauritanians on Malian soil. After the meeting, the Bamako government pledged to open a transparent and diligent investigation into…
Defense, Aerospace and Space Cluster Association SAHA Istanbul Chairman of the Board and Baykar General Manager Haluk Bayraktar evaluated the performance of the sector in 2021 to AA correspondent. Stating that Turkey is facing the positive outcomes of its vision of nationalization step by step from year to year, Bayraktar emphasized that the biggest success of the sector…
While commending the architects of census taking in Nigeria in 2022, I wish to seize this opportunity to use this medium to express my disenchantments and observations on how the critics of the funding and conduct of the National Census have got it all wrong. One group of critics has opined that the census taking…
