• Nigeria

    Don’t misappropriate $100m GPE fund , warns World Bank official

    The Senior Education Specialist, World Bank, Dr Tunde Adekola, has warned against the misappropriation of the $100m Global Partnership for Education Fund. Adekola, who is also the Task Team Leader of the project, gave the warning at the GPE/ Nigeria Partnership in Education support mission and stakeholders workshop on Monday ...

  • Ghana

    One dies as Ghanaian woman sets Nigerian husband, in-law ablaze

    A Nigerian man living in Ghana, Benjamin Oyem, has died from injuries sustained when his brother’s Ghanaian wife, Comfort Agboloshie, set the room they were sleeping in on fire. According to reports, 38-year-old Agboloshie on Thursday removed her three children, all females, aged four, seven and nine, from the room ...

  • Nigeria

    $1.6bn oil fraud: EFCC re-arraigns Diezani’s ally, Omokore, others

    Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday re-arraigned an ally of a former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Jide Omokore, and others on nine counts of criminal diversion of about $1.6bn alleged to be part of proceeds of sales of petroleum products belonging to the Federal Government. ...

  • Nigeria

    Investments in telecoms hit $68b

    Everest Amaefule, Abuja Investment in the Nigerian telecommunications industry since the advent of Global System for Mobile Communication in 2001 has hit $68bn. Of this amount, $35bn came from Foreign Direct Investments. Former Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union, Dr. Hamadoun Toure, disclosed this in a keynote address at ...

  • Nigeria

    We’ll reject punishment for dollar hoarders – Senate

    Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate has rejected the recommendation by the Nigerian Law Reform Commission on the review of the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Act, which will empower the Central Bank of Nigeria to jail people for up to two years or fine them for 20 per cent of the amount ...

  • Nigeria

    Painter wins land in Elegushi worth  N42m

    An artisan, Lawal Saheed from Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State has emerged star winner at the Imperial International Business City (IIBC) promotion which held in Lagos last week. Lawal, a painter by profession won a plot of land worth N42million. The IIBC is being developed by the Elegushi Royal Family and Channeldrill ...

  • Algeria, UAE to sign 10 agreements Tuesday

    ALGIERS- The Algerian-Emirati Investment Forum, held Monday in Algiers will culminate in the signing of nearly ten agreements in various areas, announced Minister of Industry and Mining Abdesslam Bouchouareb, who invited Emirati companies to strengthen their investments in Algeria. In a statement to the press on the sidelines of ...

  • USA

    US “appreciates” Algeria’s contribution to settlement of crisis in Libya

    ALGIERS- The ambassador of the United States to Algeria Joan Polaschik underlined that her country appreciates the contribution of Algeria to the settlement of the crisis in Libya, said Monday a communiqué of Foreign Affairs Ministry. US ambassador, who was received by Minister of Maghreb Affairs, African Union and ...

  • Bahrein

    Lamamra received in Manama by Bahraini PM

    ALGIERS- Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ramtane Lamamra has been received, Monday in Manama, by the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa. Lamamra, who is on a working visit to Bahrain, conveyed to the Bahraini Prime minister the ...

  • Marocco Francia Algeria

    Masset: Algeria, "key" partner for France

    ALGIERS-Algeria "is a key partner" for France, stressed Secretary General of the French Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry Christian Masset, adding that both countries "are partners" that "can face common challenges." "For France, Algeria is a key partner," said Masset after an audience with Minister for Maghreb Affairs, the…