Twin blast from suicide bombers at the University of Maiduguri on Monday has left four people dead and over 17 injured. The attack which took place around 5:00 am was said to have occurred in two different locations within the University. According to the Spokesman from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), AbdulKadir Ibrahim, officials have been mobilized to the university campus,...

The Nigerian National Assembly in an effort to strengthen the country’s economy, has proposed the removal of mineral resources from the exclusive list to the concurrent list in the ongoing 1999 constitution amendment. This they said will allow state governors develop all the mineral resources in their various states. The proposal is part of the amendment to be included in the new constitution...

As part of efforts to confront the employment crisis in the country, Africa’s richest man and leading entrepreneur, Aliko Dangote (photo), is setting up a $100 million vehicle assembly plant in Lagos. Dangote is partnering with National Heavy Duty Truck Group Company Limited, SINOTRUCK, to produce some thousands of trucks mostly used for haulage business from its newly promoted assembly...

The Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture has expressed the Federal Government’s willingness to soon overtake Ivory Coast and become Africa’s largest cocoa producer and exporter. According to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh (photo), the government’s drive to realize this ambition within a short time can be achievable. He said Nigeria, which has huge agricultural...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has recommended some legal changes to the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract (PSC) Act. This changes will enable the Federal Government improve the collection of royalties and other revenue from deep water oil production. According to NNPC Chief Operating Officer for Upstream activities, Malam Bello Rabiu, it is...

Mauritius wishes to make Ghana West Africa’s leading sugar producer and exporter, revealed Seetanah Lutchmeenaraidoo, Mauritius’ minister for Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, in an interview with Business & Financial Times. In this framework, “we plan to massively invest in Ghana’s sugar production sector to export the commodity to the rest of the world. We...

On court’s order, tens of residents of Soanierana, which is near Antananarivo, Madagascar, are being evicted since last Monday, with a 48 h warning only. “Bulldozers came and destroyed houses. The people resisted and were hurt by the police. We have been living here for the past 40 years! There are kids, women here! When we came in 1972, the land was the State’s. Yet, when we recently...

MTN might very well list on the Nigerian Stock Exchange this year, announced NSE Chief Executive Oscar Onyema. The official indicated that his teams were working with the mobile phone operator’s to this end. “The pressure on MTN has never been higher to list,” Onyema said. Despite Nigeria being a key market for MTN, it remais that the nation made 2016 a quite difficult year the operator as...

The World Bank has scheduled its upcoming annual Land and Poverty conference for March 20-24, 2017. Themed “Responsible Land Governance: towards an evidence-based approach”, the conference will be held in Washington DC, at the institution’s offices. The Bretton Woods institution on its website said: “The Land and Poverty conference will present the latest research and practice on the...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday, commenced a two-week mass vaccination exercise at the Internally Displaced People (IDP)’s camps in conflict-affected Northeast states. This exercise is part of the campaign to protect 4,766,214 children against measles. It said the campaign is targeting all children between six months and 10 years in accessible areas in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa...