TO promote trade and foster economic growth in Africa, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced Friday trade finance facilities totalling $140 million with seven Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) subsidiaries. These subsidiaries operate in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi,…
FRENCH energy giant TotalEnergies has finalised its first supply agreement with Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery, CEO Patrick Pouyanne announced on Friday following a meeting with Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. ‘We met this morning, we made the first deal between both…
MALI has signed a landmark agreement with China’s Ganfeng Lithium to operate the Goulamina lithium mine, increasing its stake in the project in line with a new mining code. This code, adopted last year, allows the military-led government to boost…
A YOUNG Nigerian has developed a drone to deliver medicine and medical supplies to patients in rural areas of the country’s impoverished northwest region. Jubrin Musa, a 25-year-old secondary school dropout from Kano, said he began working on the project…
…Propaganda and lies not a strategy. 1. The Edo State Government welcomes the Minister for Works Engr. David Umahi to the State. This is the third time the Minister will be visiting the State to inspect the deplorable condition of…
THE speaker of Russia’s parliament on Saturday scolded the European Union for banning the distribution of four Russian media outlets. According to the speaker it shows how the West has refused to accept any alternative point of view and was…
TWO Albanian nationals who used a plane to illegally transport economic migrants from northern France to an aerodrome in Essex have been jailed. Myrteza Hilaj, 50, and Kreshnik Kadena, 37, both of Leyton, east London, were found guilty at Southwark…
THE Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), has elevated 41 per cent of its female staff to the management cadre in recognition of their immense value to the maritime community. Dr Dayo Mobereore, Director-General of the agency, disclosed this…
FOLLOWING the assassination attempt on Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, there has been an increase in threats against other politicians in the country. Interior Minister, Matúš Šutaj Eštok told the daily newspaper Pravda on Saturday. He said he personally had…
THE Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has disowned a WhatsApp post claiming that she is bringing investors to Nigeria. In a post via her official X handle on Friday, the former Minister of Finance…
