PALIARMENTARY Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) appears to be divided over the emergency meeting called by the National Assembly management to avert the union’s industrial action fixed for Monday, January 10, 2022. The emergency meeting is scheduled to hold on…
CHINA’S Foreign Minister Wang Yi has rejected allegations that Beijing was luring African countries into debt traps by offering them massive loans, dismissing the idea as a ‘narrative’ pushed by opponents to poverty reduction. Wang, speaking ahead of touring Beijing-funded…
THE Senate has uncovered how the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) failed to remit about N23 billion ($679.4 million – N480 per dollar) realised from the concession of various ports granted to 23 companies under the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA)…
THE Federal Government on Thursday said it was putting measures in place to ensure further reduction in the cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly called cooking gas. It disclosed this while reacting to the recent marginal drop in the cost…
THE National Pension Commission (PenCom) has announced an additional release of N31.97 billion by the Federal Government for the payment of accrued pension rights to 2021 retirees. This is coming after the release of the sum of N16.67 billion on…
THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN’s) total foreign exchange (forex) sales to commercial banks declined to $1.65 billion in August 2021 from $2.05 billion in July. bIt dropped to current new low despite the apex bank’s stoppage of weekly dollar…
CHINA is transforming Kenya and the rest of Africa through infrastructure projects and investments. Many Africans welcome the developments, while others worry about Beijing’s motives and the long-term impact on their countries. With China’s Belt and Road initiative bringing temporary…
By ABDULLAHI RABIU, Kano ONE of the richest Nigerians and Chairman of many conglomerates Alhaji Aminu Dantata has said Nigeria had fail from all dimension and that the Country has to drop the Presidential system and work with Paliamentary for…
THE bi-annual Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), which is a study of the global retailing landscape, reveals that Africa is poised to move away from traditional retail models and become the fastest-growing, richest, and most sophisticated market in the world. Prashaen Reddy,…
A MAJOR fire broke out at South Africa’s seat of parliament in Cape Town early Sunday, sending a thick column of smoke into the sky and threatening the National Assembly building. The fire was believed to have started in one…
