• Russia USA

    Germany faults new US sanctions against Russia

    Germany on Friday lashed out at Washington over new sanctions against Russia that target the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe. The new penalties, approved by the US Senate on Thursday, include a paragraph that threatens to penalise European companies that push ahead with energy export programmes with ...

  • Nigeria

    Socialite arraigned for drug trafficking

    Afeez Hanafi The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arraigned a Lagos socialite, Mrs. Fumilola Ogbuaya, a.k.a Arike Fumilola Ogundipe, for allegedly dealing in hard drugs. She was brought before Justice Hadiza Shagari of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, in an amended three-count charge with suit no, ...

  • Nigeria

    Alleged $48m fraud: Jonathan’s finance coordinator declared wanted

    Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has obtained a court order to declare wanted Dr. Ngozi Olojeme, the Deputy Chairman, Finance Committee of the Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation in 2015. Olojeme, who served as the Chairman of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund from 2009 to ...

  • Nigeria

    FG hires 7,500 graduates to boost tax revenue

    Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Federal Government is targeting an increase in the number of taxpayers in the next two years from the current 14 million to 17 million. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, disclosed this during a media briefing on Thursday in Abuja on a new initiative to ...

  • Nigeria

    ‘Couples who sleep naked together are happier’

    Chances are that you are happy in your relationship if you and your partner love to sleep naked, perhaps even happier than couples you know who sleep wearing pyjamas or some other pieces of clothing. This is because a new study has revealed that couples who sleep naked have a ...

  • Nigeria

    Police to give Iboko, Agbo posthumous promotion

    The Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr Chris Ezike, said he had recommended posthumous promotion for two police officers who died while repelling robbery attack on a bank. Ezike told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Owerri that another policeman, Mr Otu Attang, who survived the Feb. 22, 2017 ...

  • Nigeria Bielorussia

    Minsk: Wofai Samuel chairs ministerial discussions for Belarus, Africa forum

    The two-day Belarus-Africa Forum with the theme: New Frontiers, organized by the Development Bank of Belarus, Arican Export-Import Bank and the Government of Belarus, in collaboration with the Belarus Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the support of the Belarus Ministry of Agriculture, was held in Belarus – Minsk recently The ...

  • Nigeria

    Sokoto releases N422m for payment of tuition

    The Sokoto State Government, has released N422 million for the payment of tuition fees of its indigenes, studying at some local and foreign institutions. This information is contained in a statement signed by the Information Officer, Nura Maikwanci, Ministry of Higher Education and issued to the News Agency of Nigeria ...

  • Spagna

    Economía.- El Gobierno autoriza la suscripción de un convenio para ejecutar los planes de seguros agrarios combinados

    MADRID, 16 (EUROPA PRESS) El Consejo de Ministros ha aprobado este viernes la suscripción de un convenio de colaboración entre la Entidad Estatal de Seguros Agrarios (Enesa) y la Agrupación Española de Entidades Aseguradoras de los Seguros Agrarios Combinados (Agroseguro), para la ejecución de los planes ...

  • Spagna

    Economía/Energía.- Energía regulará el cierre de centrales térmicas sin rango de ley al no contar con apoyo de PSOE y Cs

    br /> MADRID, 16 (EUROPA PRESS) El Gobierno regulará el cierre de centrales térmicas de producción eléctrica sin el apoyo del PSOE y de Cs, lo que impedirá que la norma pueda convalidarse en el Congreso de los Diputados y adquirir rango de ley.