Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday in Abuja said African economies were improving and performing better than the projected global outlook. Osinbajo spoke at the opening of a two-day High-Level Policy and Private Sector Trade and Investment Facilitation Forum, with the theme, Facilitating Trade and Investment for Development. The World Bank global outlook for Sub-Saharan
The Chairman of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, has said that the local cement manufacturers produce over 25 million tonnes cement thus saving the country two million dollars annually. He said this while addressing State House Correspondents after a meeting of the Presidential Industrial Advisory Council chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential
Senate President Bukola Saraki has pledged the cooperation of the National Assembly with the executive to ensure better administration of the country. Saraki gave the promise when he fielded questions from State House Correspondents after an interactive dinner hosted by President Muhammadu Buhari in honour of principal officers of the National Assembly in Abuja. According
THE Nigerian Movement for Positive Change (NMPC) on Thursday commiserated with the national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the death of his eldest son,Jide, on Wednesday night. NMPC, in a statement issued and signed by its President, Barrister Niyi Aborisade, described as unfortunate the death of the scion
The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has expressed the commission’s resolve to go after human traffickers. Mr. Magu said this when a delegation from the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) visited him in Abuja. The spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, who reported
The fragile security situation in Kogi State worsened as unknown gunmen killed the state chairman of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) of the Secondary School, Science and Technology Education Board (STEB) branch, Mallam Abdulmumini Yakubu. The labour leader was murdered on Wednesday at Ozuwaya, Okene local government. It was learnt that the heavily armed assailants
President Muhammadu Buhari is to lay the estimates for the 2018 Budget to a joint session of the National Assembly on November 7. In a letter from Mr President, read on both chambers of the National Assembly, President Buhari said that he would formally address a joint session of the National Assembly at 2:00PM on
A former Abia governor and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Orji Kalu, has distanced himself from campaign posters pasted along Airport Road, Abuja, with the inscription: “Vote Orji Kalu for President on the platform of the APC.’’ According to Mr. Kalu, who is also a supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari, the posters
THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Anambra State Command, says it has embarked on monitoring of campaign offices across the state to rid the offices of hard drugs and other dangerous substances inimical to the electoral process. The agency said that the forthcoming governorship election is significant and as such the organisation has a
Two Strangers Are Being Investigated by the FBI for Committing Sexual Acts on a Flight to Detroit The flight was only four hours long. An unidentified 28-year-old man and 48-year-old woman were strangers before their Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Detroit on Sunday. But that’s where this romantic travel story ends.