By Temitope Ponle The UK Government has announced a new £70million programme to create 100,000 jobs in Nigeria says the Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin. Baldwin said this during a business event as part of the activities for Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Nigeria on Wednesday. Baldwin,Continue Reading
The Chairman of Victims Support Fund (VSF) Gen TY Danjuma commissioned public buildings reconstructed by VSF in Buni Yadi, Gujba Local Government Area Yobe State on 30th August 2018. This project was executed in partnership with the Yobe State Government with full funding from VSF. The entire project which cost overContinue Reading
Ace musician, David Adeleke (Davido), was among 2152 Batch “B”, Stream 2 corps members sworn-in at the Lagos State NYSC Orientation Camp, Ipaja on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that security personnel had a hard time controlling fellow corps members and NYSC staff rushing to take aContinue Reading
The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Thursday declared his intention to run for the presidency of the country in the 2019 general elections. Saraki made the declaration at a dialogue with youths and young aspirants in Abuja on Thursday, and promised an inclusive government for all Nigerians,Continue Reading
By Ebere Agozie The National Parks Service, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State to collaborate in ecotourism, research and conservation education. The MOU was signed by Alhaji Ibrahim Goni, the Conservator-General of the service and Prof. Abubakar Kundiri, the Vice Chancellor ofContinue Reading
The Consul-General of China in Lagos, Mr Chao Xiaoliang, on Thursday said the volume of trade between China and Africa from January to July this year now stand at about N4.17 trillion ($116 billion). Chao, in an article entitled, “Working Together to Write a New Chapter in China-Africa Relations’’, alsoContinue Reading
(Xinhua/NAN)Burkina Faso will strengthen cooperation with China in all areas as Africa-China relations develop for mutual benefit, President Roch Kabore said. Kabore, whose country resumed diplomatic ties with Beijing in late May, will pay a state visit to China from Thursday to Sept. 5, during which he will also attendContinue Reading
Aruna Quadri, winner of the recently-concluded 2018 ITTF Challenge (Seamaster Nigeria Open Championship), has donated food items and mini table to the SOS Children’s Village at Isolo in Lagos. ITTF-Africa Media said in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday that Quadri was accompanied to the village by his wife, GaniatContinue Reading
Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, former Sokoto governor on Wednesday, obtained the nomination form from the headquarters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to run for President. Bafarawa is the first to pick the nomination form among many other PDP gladiators who are interested in the position. Speaking after picking the form,Continue Reading
