Again $20bn Award Looms Against Nigeria
FeaturedSpecial Reports October 14, 2019
By Ubong Akro Nigeria recently secured a reprieve on the controversial award of $9.6billion to Process and Industrial Development-P&ID by a British Commercial Court. Securing a stay of execution and right of appeal to the obnoxious award is a huge relieve to all well-meaning citizens. Issues as this, only... Read more
Kenya managed to book their ticket to the 2020 Olympics as the 2019 Rugby Africa Women’s Sevens comes to an end on its second day MONASTIR, Tunisia, October 14, 2019/ — The second day of the 2019 Rugby Africa (RugbyAfrique.com) Women’s Sevenssponsored by Société Générale has come to an end... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong A strong and competent performance by the Super Eagles earned a 1-1 draw against five-time world champions Brazil in a prestige international friendly in Singapore on Sunday. Both teams started with good pace, passion and intensity at the Singapore National Stadium in Kallang and after only... Read more
Clampdown on Commercial Motorcycles In Nigeria: Security of Lives, Property Supersede Economic Cost, Say Stakeholders
FeaturedSpecial Reports October 14, 2019
By Dianabasi Effiong Time there was in Nigeria when commercial bicycles operators thrived side-by-side with cars, lorries and trains, as means of transportation in major cities. The pendulum, thereafter, swung when commercial motorcycle operators had a field day in major towns and rural areas of Akwa Ibom and Katsina... Read more
Nigeria’s premier and leading financial services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has joined the rest of the world to celebrate the 2019 Customer Service Week themed “The Magic of Service’. The weeklong event is to be celebrated from 7 – 11 October 2019 across the Bank’s over 700... Read more
On China’s National Day, USCIRF Urges U.S. Government to Take Action on Religious Freedom
FeaturedPress Releases October 3, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC – Today marks the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, also known as National Day. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) continues to urge the U.S. government to take decisive action against the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing campaign of repression against Uighur... Read more
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says that all the candidates disqualified for Bayelsa and Kogi governorship elections were not validly nominated by their political parties. Mr Festus Okoye, Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC said this on Thursday during a “Youth Campus” sensitisation programme organised by the... Read more
The $129.17 million Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises Programme in the Niger Delta, LIFE-ND, being driven by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, is targeted at creating 38,250 jobs in the agricultural sector. Speaking at a one-day stakeholder’s meeting of... Read more
Hon Tonye Isenah, Speaker of Bayelsa House of Assembly on Monday dismissed reports of his impeachment as false and a nullity as he remains the speaker of the house. There was heavy shooting at the Bayelsa House of Assembly during a session of the assembly when hundreds of youths... Read more
Cup holders Nigeria will battle Cote d’Ivoire, Zambia and South Africa at the group stage of the 3rd U23 Africa Cup of Nations taking place in Egypt next month, following the draw held in Alexandria on Wednesday night. All Group B matches will hold at the Al Salam Stadium... Read more