• USA

    Trump trade agenda: 'Not bound by WTO'

    WASHINGTON - The US isn't bound by decisions made at the World Trade Organisation, President Donald Trump's administration said in outlining a new trade agenda that promises to root out unfair practices by foreign countries.

  • USA

    Southern Africa: 'SADC Must Self-Fund'

    [The Herald] The Southern African Development Community should explore ways to fund its programmes because having development partners bankroll a fraction of its activities is not sustainable, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgar Mbwembwe has said. Deputy Minister Mbwembwe said while there had been a significant improvement in the percentage ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria: Nigeria Targets $10 Billion New Oil, Gas Investments in Five Years

    [Premium Times] The Federal Government has set a target of attracting more than $10 billion of fresh investments in the oil and gas industry in the next five years, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, said on Tuesday.

  • Nigeria

    Emir Sanusi tries to shake up family law in Kano

    As a traditional ruler, the Emir of Kano is expected to dispense sage advice in matters temporal and spiritual to his legions of followers across Muslim-majority northern Nigeria. Like his counterparts dotted across the vast country of 180 million, he is the proud guardian of the past and the customs ...

  • Nigeria

    Drama as Senate screens 82-year-old ambassadorial nominee

    Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, on Wednesday, screened an 82-year-old non-career ambassadorial nominee, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor (retd.), who refused to recite the National Anthem when he was asked to do so. The refusal by the nominee to recite the anthem had shocked members of the committee. ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria earns $43m from Gum Arabic export

    The Federal Government has earmarked N263m to boost the production and export of Gum Arabic as the country earned more than $43m from the export of the commodity in 2016. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Audu Ogbeh, confirmed this development when he briefed State House correspondents on ...

  • Nigeria

    Xenophobia: Niger Delta militants threaten to bomb South African investments

    Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt   A coalition of Niger Delta militants on Wednesday threatened to blow up Multichoice (DSTV), MTN, Shoprite and 16 other major South African investments in Nigeria if the Federal Government fails to shut them down within one month.   The militant groups, who were reacting to ...

  • Nigeria

    Health writers hold symposium on mental health

    A host of medical experts in key public and private areas of the health industry are set to deliberate on salient issues of healthcare delivery in Nigeria, as the Health Writers Association of Nigeria holds its seventh annual symposium themed, “Mental health in a recessed economy.” Leading the discussion as ...

  • Nigeria

    Reps to investigate CBN, Finance Ministry over unpaid BoA shares

    The House of Representatives says it will investigate the Central Bank Of Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Finance over unpaid capital shares to the Bank of Agriculture. This was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Femi Fayeke (Osun-APC) at the plenary in Abuja on Wednesday. ...

  • Qatar USA

    US Customs detains Nigerian software engineer, gives him programming tests

    Celestine Omin was accustomed to tackling tough engineering problems. Just not the two that the Border Agent had put in front of his face — or at least not now, after having spent 24 hours cramped in an economy seat on Qatar Airways. It was Sunday, February 26, and the ...