EVERY morning, Amake Yessoufou makes the rounds of the sewing workshops of Ouidah, a small coastal town in the south of Benin, and collects scraps of fabric used by tailors to make clothes. In the past, waste fabric clogged up…
By ABDULLAHI RABIU, Kano THE Department of State Service (DSS) has uncovered a Notorious Banks Criminals popularly known as “Open Boots”, who specializes in trailing their victims after withdrawing Monies from the bank before reaching their traget destination. The gang…
ZIMBABWE has no plans of adopting cryptocurrency as a legal tender, according to Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa. Mutsvangwa, who spoke following a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, was reacting to reports in a section of the local media that Zimbabwe was…
By ABDULLAHI YAKUBU, Kano The Kano state Government has presented offers of Permanent and Pensionable Employment to 45 Casual Staff of the History and Culture Bureau (Koroso Dancers) in an effort to make them to stand on their feets. Presenting…
KWARA State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, yesterday, said the criminal diversion of funds meant for development of basic education amounted to reckless looting of the future of Kwara child. Speaking at the official signing of a memorandum of understanding for the KwaraLEARN…
BOEING Business Jet (Boeing 737-700) marked 5N-FGT owned by the Nigerian government has incurred parking charges of at least N95 million since it was taken to Germany for repairs. According to SaharaReporters, the amount accounts for the aircraft’s parking charges…
TANZANIA’S energy minister January Makamba said on Monday he had started negotiations on the country’s $30bn liquefied natural gas project with the exploration companies involved. Equinor, one of the companies that has a stake in the project, said last week…
DOCUMENTS obtained from the Federal Ministry of Finance have shown that Nigeria’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has spent the sum of N2.5 billion on land clearing as part of its COVID-19 intervention programme. The Agric Ministry says N2.5…
TO support universal and affordable broadband access in Africa, IFC has partnered with Liquid Intelligent Technologies to expand data centre capacity and the rollout of fibre-optic cable on the continent. The partnership with Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Africa’s leading independent fibre…
THE row between governors and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami (SAN) over the $418 million Paris Club refund debt deepened yesterday. The governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) accused Malami…
