Mr Danladi Ibrahim, the Acting Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), said the Baro port had been completed and was ready to start operations. Addressing newsmen in Lagos on Monday, Ibrahim said the Baro and Lokoja ports would be inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari before the end ofContinue Reading
Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, the Presidential aspirant for the Young Progressive Party (YPP), has appointed Mr Abdullahi Abubakar, a political consultant, as the Chief Operating Officer of his 2019 Presidential campaign. Prof. Moghalu, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, also announced Ebere Samuel as the National Coordinator forContinue Reading
By George Odok The 281 disengaged contract staff of the Cross River Water Board Ltd. on Monday paralysed activities at the office headquarters in Calabar over unpaid salary arrears. The protesting staff members occupied the main entrance of the water board to demand for payment of their 12 months’ salaryContinue Reading
MONTREAL: Fourteen people, including a young girl, were shot near downtown Toronto, police in Canada’s biggest city said on Sunday, with one person killed and the gunman also dead.The young girl was in a critical condition, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said. “We are looking at all possible motives… andContinue Reading
By Ismaila Chafe The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiohmole, says Ministers who fail to inaugurate members of board of parastatals under their supervision risk expulsion from the party. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some ministers including Ministers of State Aviation andContinue Reading
Moscow, July 23, 2018 (dpa/NAN)A dog managed to open an airliner’s luggage hold during a flight from St Petersburg to Moscow, forcing the crew to conduct an emergency landing, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported Monday. The dog, described as being “not large,” broke out of its kennel and “triggered activation” ofContinue Reading
TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian boat carrying around 40 African migrants has been stranded off the country’s coast without aid for more than a week after authorities refused to let them disembark there, the Red Crescent said on Monday. Monji Slim, an official of the Tunisian Red Crescent, said theContinue Reading
N’DJAMENA, July 23 (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 18 farmers and kidnapped nine women in western Chad, authorities said, part of a wave of violence that has spread from neighbouring Nigeria across the region. The attackers came into the village of Mayerom in Lake Chad region after darkContinue Reading
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Diamond producer De Beers said on Monday it was relocating 200 elephants from its private reserve in South Africa to neighbouring Mozambique, part of wider efforts to restore wildlife populations ravaged by conflict there. The Anglo American unit said its 32,000-hectare )80,000-acre) Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve couldContinue Reading
