Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, recused himself from a suit brought by Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow, currently before him. Mohammed made this known to parties at the mention of the motion ex-parte with suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1409/19 filed by Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters, to challenge his continued detention […]
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Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has alleged his Bayelsa counterpart Seriake Dickson colluded with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to lose the just-concluded governorship election. Dickson, he alleged, struck a deal with the APC to lose in state in exchange for protection from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after handing over. APC’s […]
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“It is my pleasure to welcome and address you the Members of the National Action Committee for the Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement on the occasion of your Inauguration. As you also know, Trade is pivotal to job creation, growth and health of the economy. It is also a key enabler […]
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The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), is to distribute irrigation water pumps and fertilizers to 4,000 Borno farmers restore their livelihoods in the agriculture and livestock sectors. According to 2018 post-harvest survey; the dry season support of FAO generated; N186, 100 from farmers’ sale of crops, including rice, tomato and onions. FAO’s representative in Nigeria, […]
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Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi It seems like the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal are not ready to admit that they were dead-wrong about Aramco. The Big Name papers are not brave enough to explain how and why they took their sharpest shots against the Saudi giant and missed. Just before the sale of 1.5 […]
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By John D. Siciliano At the recent U.N. climate talks in Madrid, former Secretary of State John Kerry kicked off a new bipartisan climate campaign that includes natural gas as part of the answer in an interesting marriage between political campaign and real-world energy solutions. The campaign, referred to as World War Zero, will fan out […]
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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC); has summoned Cameroun Minister of Information, Issa Chiroma and Atanga Nji over alleged killings of some South Cameroun citizens. The summoning was disclosed on Sunday; by South Cameroon-Ambazonia Resistant Front (SC-ARF) in a statement released to journalists in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. The United States (U.S) has also […]
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Global oil demand increased by 900 kb/d y-o-y in 3Q19, the strongest annual growth in a year. Nearly three-quarters of the growth occurred in China. Indian demand rose 135 kb/d, but OECD deliveries fell for the fourth straight quarter and are expected to decline 75 kb/d overall in 2019. For 2019 and 2020 we have […]
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A shocking attack by an Islamic State affiliate has killed more than 70 Nigerien soldiers, the most ever in a single incident. Crisis Group expert Hannah Armstrong explains that the jihadists’ strength is rooted in decades-old communal grievances in the Mali-Niger border zone. What happened in Niger? On 10 December, assailants struck a Nigerien military […]
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