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“I bought a vehicle worth $600 and got it shipped for $1600. When it got to Nigeria, I had to pay about N3 million ($1,886) to clear the vehicle. This has never happened in the history of our business,”
A Nigeria Railways Corporation official said the train departs Ibadan for Lagos at 8am daily with a return trip scheduled at 4pm.
The Lagos-Ibadan expressway is notorious for heavy trucks and traffic gridlocks that can stretch for several kilometres.
The Lagos-Ibadan line is the first part of a new 2,733km Lagos-Kano standard gauge line. The total cost of the project was valued at $11.117bn.
A growing number of international organisations are expressing concern with the increasing cases and handling of insecurity in Nigeria as many welcomed the release of the abducted school children. In a media release made available to African Voice, IA-Foundation, an organisation dedicated to the reduction and elimination of “out-of-school” children has condemned the abduction of students […]
The post UK based IA- Foundation condemns insecurity and the abduction of school boys in Nigeria appeared first on African Voice Newspaper.
[Premium Times] PREMIUM TIMES had reported how gunmen, last week, attacked the public school in Kankara and abducted over 300 students.
[New Frame] The last in this three-part series looks at the cost of nuclear waste disposal, decommissioning power plants and accident clean-ups, and suggests a logical energy-generation alternative for the continent.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola was elected Monday to the rotating presidency of the Conference of Ministers of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), for the mandate of the year (2021).
[This Day] The Senate yesterday expressed displeasure at reports that the nation loses over $120 million annually to the patronage of foreign shipping firms in the shipment of petroleum products.
[Vanguard] A Bill to regulate Real Estate Activities in Lagos State and for other connected purposes has scaled second reading at the state House of Assembly.
By LEKAN OYEKANMI and SUNDAY ALAMBA Associated Press KANKARA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's freed schoolboys have reunited with their joyful parents after being held captive for nearly a week by gunmen allied with jihadist rebels in the country's northwest. Relieved parents hugged their sons tightly on Saturday in Kankara, where more than 340 boys were abducted from the Government Science Secondary School on the night of Dec. 11. Other families met their sons in Ketare, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) away. More boys went to their homes further away in Katsina state. 'When I heard our boys were freed, I […]
The post Amid freed Nigeria schoolboys' joyful reunions, fear lingers appeared first on Black News Channel.
[Vanguard] The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and education experts have called equal opportunities for girls and women to access quality education in order to actualise their potentials in the society, stating that 9.5 million girls aged between 10 and 17 are out-of-school in the country.
Two years after China's Supreme Court established its expert committee on the adjudication of international commercial disputes, it has announced the second group of members of the committee, and this includes four African legal experts. The expert committee, otherwise known as the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People's Court, came into being in...
The post Uganda's former chief justice, other African legal giants hired by China's Supreme Court appeared first on Face2Face Africa.
The ‘Adorned by Chi’ manga celebrates the magic in all of us
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[World Bank] Washington -- Today, the World Bank has discussed the next five-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Nigeria with a $1.5-billion financing package to support a resilient post-COVID-19 recovery and help the government achieve its goal of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030.
[Vanguard] President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja ended a meeting with 36 state governors on the issue of security with a charge to them to work more with traditional rulers and community members to improve local intelligence gathering that will aid the work of security agencies.
All things being equal, Nigerian-born attorney Adewale Adeyemo will become the next Deputy Secretary of Treasury on the United States in the incoming Joe Biden administration expected to begin on January 20 next year. If confirmed by lawmakers, Adeyemo, 39, will deputize for Janet Yellen, 74, a former Federal Reserve nominated by the president-elect a...
The post Biden's deputy Treasury secretary could be Nigerian-born Adewale Adeyemo - Who is he? appeared first on Face2Face Africa.
The British-Nigerian star discusses his role in Steve McQueen’s “Red, White and Blue” and aligning his politics with his career.
It was after midnight in Lagos on 21 October when Elisha Sunday said he got a call from his brother Victor's phone: a stranger told him Victor had been shot dead by soldiers at Lekki Toll Gate.
Former Nigerian Ambassador to France and Monaco, Akin Fayomi, who is also a former Undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, shares with T...
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[Spotlight Initiative] Clement Ejim, 33, already had a fullling career as a teacher in the school of health in the small town of Abuochiche, Nigeria. Then, about a year ago, he came across an opportunity to expand his work.
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2020: Journalist and author Isha Sesay has joined The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as its newest Goodwill Ambassador to help raise awareness of gender-based violence and support efforts in ending it. The announcement comes at the start of the annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign…
[This Day] Abuja -- The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that without the discovery of fresh hydrocarbons in some parts of the country, the current 37 billion barrels in reserves will dry up in 30 years, given a projection of 2.3 million barrels per day by 2023.
[The Conversation Africa] For a brief moment in October, it seemed that youthful protesters calling to \"abolish\" a police force had succeeded. After weeks of mass demonstrations against police brutality, the government agreed to disband a widely hated police unit.
This is not a crisis that one country can solve alone, the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) says.
An 18-year-old girl has been arrested in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos for allegedly faking her own kidnap to demand ransom from her family, police have said.
(Reuters) - Bermuda and The Bahamas aren’t exactly big players in the oil-and-gas world.
The article How oil majors shift billions in profits to island tax havens appeared first on Stabroek News.
Angola still ranks as the second largest oil producer in Africa, behind Nigeria.
The article Angola’s ‘resource curse’ travails an object lesson for Guyana appeared first on Stabroek News.
Analysis - If Mozambique at last accepts regional support, SADC must heed the hard lessons learned elsewhere on the continent.
[Cameroon Tribune] The artist, in collaboration with Stanley Enow and Kameni in the song \"Amin\" seeks to reignite the spirit of love and positivity among Cameroonians.
[Premium Times] \"Pregnancy is not a disease. It should not lead to deaths. Every maternal death should be regarded as an abnormality.\"
[Premium Times] There have been rumours that Mr Fayemi was lobbying within the APC to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
