Mexican President-elect Andres Obrador left the country’s national palace in the front passenger seat of a white Volkswagen Jetta, swarmed by hundreds of jubilant supporters including one waving a live rooster. There was not a bodyguard in sight. Since claiming victory on Sunday, the leftist politician has promised transformative changeContinue Reading
The China-Africa cooperation has contributed positively to the promotion and protection of people’s rights to subsistence and development in Africa, a Chinese envoy has said. Xu Jinghu, the Chinese Government’s Special Representative for African Affairs, made the remarks while addressing a side-event of the 38th session of the UN HumanContinue Reading
Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has urged state legislators to make concerted efforts to ensure level-playing field existed for all to participate in 2019 general elections. Dogara, who said this when he received Speakers of the 36 States’ Houses of Assembly on Tuesday in Abuja, charged themContinue Reading
French President, Emmanuel Macron, has urged Nigerian youths to get involved with politics to change the narrative of the nation. Macron, while describing politics as important, said only Nigerians could change their image before the comity of nations. The French President, who was accompanied by Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State,Continue Reading
The Senate at the resumption of plenary session after its Sallah break on Tuesday, vowed to resist attempts to scrap constituency projects. The decision, which was taken after a voice vote by the lawmakers, followed a motion by Sen. Barnabas Gemade (APC-Benue). While presenting the motion, Gemade said that theContinue Reading
The world’s top cocoa producer, Cote d’Ivoire plans to build a 60 to 70 MegaWatts (MW) capacity biomass power generation plant running on waste from cocoa pods. It also plans to extend its grid to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone this year, according to media reports on Tuesday. This isContinue Reading
The Bauchi State Government in collaboration with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has constructed 10 boreholes and six blocks of pour flush latrines in Tsangaya schools to avert cholera epidemic in the state. Mr Garba Babaji, the Permanent Secretary, Bauchi State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), said thisContinue Reading
The National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan, says the installation of a Tuta Trap Tray (TTT) is one of the most potent means of reducing the menace of Tuta Absoluta in tomato farms. Dr Abiola Oke, the Chief Research Officer, Vegetable Research Programme, NIHORT, said this on Tuesday in an interview with NewsContinue Reading
Financial experts on Tuesday expressed confidence that stock market would rebound in the second half of the year due to the implementation of the 2018 budget. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews in Lagos that prompt implementation of the budget signed by the President inContinue Reading
