SIX of Seychelles’ most prominent citizens including the former First Lady Sarah Zarqani-René are facing charges in a corruption scandal involving $50 million of missing foreign aid. The money was a gift to the country 20 years ago from the…
NIGERIAN Government has lifted the ban on the micro-blogging site of Twitter in Nigeria following approval by President Muhammadu Buhari. This was disclosed by the Chairman, Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi. While making known the government’s decision in…
By ABDULLAHI RABIU, Kano KANO state Executive Council has approved the sum of N500, 000 million as counterpart fund for the implementation of a Six years World Bank assisted project tagged: Agro Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL). The State…
INTERNATIONAL corporate expert, Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh (pictured), has been appointed by Microsoft as its Strategic Partnership Lead for Africa in its new Africa Transformation Office. Microsoft’s establishment of an Africa Transformation Office (ATO) is a reinforcement of its investment in the…
IN order to give concrete expression to the underlining principles and fundamental philosophy of the emergent digital culture in Nigeria, particularly Item No. 2 of the eight pillars of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) 2020-2030, the Minister…
THE Transparency Nigeria Group asks the Central Bank of Nigeria to immediately dismiss Mr Ademola Ademise, the chief executive of Wema Bank PLC, a tier-3 lender quoted on the NGX. The TNG believes that Mr Ademise has grossly abused his…
THE trial of a former Director, Legal Services of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Grace Taiga, for alleged fraud in the case involving Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID) before Justice O.A Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High…
THE Centre for Democracy and Development has revealed that military leaders “stole” as much as $15billion (N6.1trn at N411 to a dollar) through fraudulent arms procurement deals in the last 20 years. The report affirmed that successive presidents’ failure to…
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $47.09 million grant for the first phase of Mozambique’s Pemba-Lichinga Integrated Development Corridor, a Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone. The grant, from the African Development Fund, will help improve agricultural productivity and agribusiness…
ETHIOPIA wants to pass a supplementary budget worth 122 billion birr ($2.5bn) to help finance programmes to rebuild areas destroyed by war and provide humanitarian aid, the finance ministry said on Thursday. The budget is much larger than previously reported…
