• USA

    Business: US programme to help train 2,000 Kenyan youth on clothes making

    United States of America has signed a grant that will help train 2,000 Kenyan youth in manufacturing of clothing.

  • Turchia

    A Turkey farmer’s tale from hobby to thriving business

    Ben Kithinji purchased the birds to please his daughters but he now earns a tidy sum from his Sh24,000 investment

  • USA

    Clarity needed on status of campaign financing law

    What is so onerous about Act that it has to wait until 2022 for us to see full effect?

  • Nigeria

    Dismissed soldier steals friend’s car

    Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan A dismissed soldier, Obadiah Ayuba, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for stealing his friend’s car in Ibadan. Ayuba was dismissed by the Nigerian Army after a series of unprofessional actions, including robbery and absconding from duty. The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun ...

  • Nigeria

    I got N500,000 to smuggle drugs through border – Ex-Customs official

    Kunle Falayi An ex-customs official, Ngwoke Emmanuel, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for smuggling cannabis through the Seme border to Lagos Island. He told officials after his arrest that he was paid half a million naira to smuggle the drugs disguised as used clothes. The ...

  • Nigeria

    Oil, gas era gone, says Ogbeh

    The Federal Government has explained that with its agricultural export programme, the era of oil and gas is gone. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogeh, who stated this in an interview with journalists on Thursday night in Abuja, said Nigeria needed dollars from agricultural exports to ...

  • Nigeria

    Agip restates commitment to diversification of Nigerian economy

    Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri Multinational oil giant, Nigerian Agip Oil Ccompany, has said that encouraging small and medium business owners through annual leadership workshops is one of its important programmes in supporting the country’s economy. The Vice Chairman /Managing Director, Agip in Nigeria, Mr. Massimo Insulla, who spoke during a two-day ...

  • Nigeria

    Lagos to review tenancy law

    Gbenro Adeoye The Lagos State Law Reform Commission has said that it has identified the need to review certain provisions of the existing Lagos State Tenancy Law of 2011 with a view to make it reflect current realities. Speaking at the stakeholders’ meeting on Tenancy Law of Lagos State, organised ...

  • Nigeria

    FG suspends NHIS boss for buying N58m SUV

    Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Friday announced the suspension of the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf, for three months. Findings by our correspondent revealed that one of the allegations against Yusuf was that he ...

  • Nigeria

    Dogara backs OGFZA bill

    The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has thrown his weight behind efforts by the National Assembly (NASS) to amend the Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA) Act of 1996. In his opening remarks on Thursday in Abuja to the public hearing on the bill to amend ...