NIGERIA has won the bid to host the headquarters of the $5 billion African Energy Bank, after a keenly contested bid with five other countries, including Ghana, Benin Republic, Algeria, South Africa, and Cote d’Ivoire. The African Energy Bank would…
Justice Oyindamola Ogala of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Thursday, July 4, 2024, adjourned till October 24, 2024 further hearing in the alleged N4.8bn fraud trial involving Cletus Ibeto, Chairman, Ibeto Energy Development Company. Ibeto alongside Ibeto…
A former pornstar has sued popular rapper and music industry mogul Sean Love Combs, better known as Diddy for sexual assault and sex trafficking, court filings showed. The hip-hop artist is the target of several civil lawsuits that characterize him…
By Ismail Abdulazeez Mantu The Edo State All Progressive Congress, APC, is trying to see it does everything humanly possible, both legal and illegal, to avoid the September gubernatorial election in Edo State. The ailing party with an obvious incompetent…
FROM boardroom tables to contesting in the political arena, Dr Asue Ighodalo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the upcoming Edo State gubernatorial election slated for September this year, has some outstanding leadership qualities one cannot but appreciate. From…
GERMAN Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed the Labour Party’s victory in the British general election. In response to a question as to whether he saw himself in a new alliance with the new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, The Social…
Multinational energy company TotalEnergies acts as a key contributor to economic growth and tax revenues in the markets in which it operates, extending beyond its core oil and gas exploration and production activities. In 2023 alone, the company’s production taxes…
THE African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has appointed Dr Babatunde Samson Omotosho, an economist and statistician, as Director of the Statistics Department, effective June 16, 2024. Dr Omotosho, a Nigerian national, has more than 21 years experience in developing data strategies…
THE Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, on Thursday, July 4, 2024, charged corps members across the country to take a deliberate stand against corruption in the interest of their future and the entire nation.…
GERMANY has delivered a third Patriot air-defence system to Ukraine, authorities said on Friday. German Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Jäger said this on the social media platform X that the move would help to improve the protection of the population…
