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
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
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
(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
By Idris Abdulrahman A pilgrim from Niger was on Wednesday feared dead in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, after mistakenly falling into the pit of an elevator under repair. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the deceased stepped on the system without knowing it was under repair and immediately sunkContinue 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
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Niger says its 2018 Batch B stream II members will take their orientation in Kaduna State. It said that this was based on directives to hold the orientation in cluster in 19 States due to the limited number of corps members in theContinue Reading
By Racheal Ishaya The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has imposed a N5.87 billion fine on Standard Chartered Bank, Stanbic-IBTC, Citibank, and Diamond Bank over alleged illegal remittance of foreign exchange to offshore investors of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. This is even as the CBN has directed MTN to refundContinue Reading
A non-governmental organisation, Healthy Sense Initiative (HSI), says Nigerians, especially youths, who fail to vote in 2019 will lack the grounds to complain of bad leadership. “Politics has always been a game of numbers, which is domiciled in the youth as they are more than a half of Nigeria’s population,’’Continue Reading
