FROM Washington to Moscow, Tehran to Ankara, Sudan’s strategic Red Sea ports, blockaded for a month by protesters, have long been eyed by global powers far beyond Africa’s borders. Blessed with natural resources such as gold and rich in maritime…
ON the tarmac at Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport on the shores of Lake Victoria, Chinese technicians and their Ugandan counterparts put final touches on the aprons as planes fly in and out. The 70-year-old airport, opened in 1951 by the…
MANY people were feared drowned and others missing following the sudden collapse of a landing jetty at Isaka community in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that the incident happened on Saturday evening as passengers were…
TWENTY-FIVE suspected oil thieves handed over to the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, Bonny Island, Rivers State, are being quizzed for their alleged involvement in illegal…
A Tax Appeal Tribunal (TAT) sitting in Lagos has ordered Multichoice Nigeria Limited, owners of popular cable television services, DSTV, to pay 50 per cent of N1.8 trillion to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) before the Appeal proceedings start.…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday opened the 157 kilometre-Lagos-Ibadan Standard Gauge Railway Line for full commercial operations. He described the project as another milestone to revitalise the rail infrastructure and improve socio-economic activities. The president called for stakeholder engagement on…
THE Federal Government through the Ministry of Interior says it was adopting measures to address passport scarcity and racketeering by Immigration officials across the country. 10 special passport centres will now be opened in the coming weeks to fast-track booklets…
THE minister of interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said the Nigeria Immigration Service is set to issue international passports at all 774 local government areas. The minister, who stated this at the opening of the centre in Maitama, said the opening…
