• Nigeria

    …for the week ended January 3, 2017

    Nigeria’s manufacturing sector slipped back to the contraction zone in the month of January 2017, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s composite Manufacturing PMI, which pointed to 48.2  index points in January 2017(as against 52.0 index points in December 2016). This was amid a tough operating macroeconomic environment impacted ...

  • Nigeria

    Workers stuck in Lagos underground tank

    Samson Folarin Two workers have got stuck while cleaning an underground fuel tank at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency end of the Lagos Badagry Expressway. The victims, Kazeem Rufai and a yet-to-be identified man, were rushed to the Badagry General Hospital. While Rufai survived and is receiving treatment at ...

  • Nigeria

    NAMA Braces Up For Abuja Airport Closure

    Following the demands for effective utilisation of Kaduna Airport as the alternative to Abuja Airport, when the latter must have been closed to traffic, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has started upgrading its navigational facilities at the airport to improve its service to both local and foreign travelers. In ...

  • Nigeria

    NFF Calls For Positive Reporting, Promotion Of Peace

    The Nigeria Football Federation has once more called on the sporting media to set much standard by developmental reporting, as well as those issues and programmes that will ultimately promote peace within the Nigerian Football family. Speaking in Abuja at the weekend, NFF’s Director of Communications, Ademola Olajire heaped plaudits ...

  • Nigeria

    FCMB Raises N5.1bn In Bonds As Treasury Bills Fetch Nigeria N400bn

    First City Monument Bank Plc is the first bank to shore up its capital this year as the bank raised N5.1 billion through bond sales last week just as the Central Bank of Nigeria also raised N400 billion through the sales of Treasury Bills. Although the amount raised by FCMB ...

  • Nigeria

    Vehicle Import Ban: Seme Customs Seize Toyota Prado Worth N15m

    The Nigeria Customs Service, Seme Command, said it had seized a 2016 Toyota Prado, worth N15 million, in enforcing Federal Government’s ban on vehicle importation through the land border. Fedilis Nwaeze, who led the customs patrol team, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that two suspects were arrested when ...

  • Nigeria

    Shehu Sani To Nigerians: You Don’t Need Police Permit For Protest

    The Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Senator Shehu Sani on Sunday said Nigerians don’t need police permit to carry out protest against a government. The Senator who represent Kaduna central under the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), made the comment as a result of the much publicised ...

  • USA Giappone

    What the Fluff? American kids’ lunch icon turns 100

    Fluff turns 100 this year. The marshmallow concoction that has been smeared on a century’s worth of schoolchildren’s sandwiches has inspired a festival and other sticky remembrances. Every year, between 5 million and 7 million pounds of the sticky cream invented in suburban Boston in 1917 is produced and sold ...

  • USA

    Trump embodies the moral rot unleashed by a mafia economy

    Isolating America could be one way of taming Trump’s demagoguery.

  • Kenya

    Ban on Uganda poultry could be lifted in the next one week

    Kenya may lift the import ban imposed on Uganda chicken and eggs in the next one week, after experts from the two countries met to assess the measures taken against an epidemic of bird flu.