• Giappone

    Japan to host World Robot Summit in 2020

    Cabinet minister Hiroshige Seko said the government will host a World Robot Summit in 2020 with the aim of promoting competition in speed, accuracy and quality of robot performance in the manufacturing and service sectors. The international convention is expected to offer the robot industry an opportunity to accelerate research ...

  • Turchia Nigeria

    Reps charge FG on Nigerian students arrested in Turkey

    The House of Representatives on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to explore all diplomatic means of rescuing the student arrested by the Turkish Gvernment and resolve the issue. The House also mandated its committees on Foreign Affairs, Diaspora Matters, Interior and Tertiary Institutions to investigate the matter and report back ...

  • Nigeria

    APC, PDP trade words as WAEC withholds Bayelsa’s results

    The Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday, lamented that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has withheld the results of the state’s indigenous candidates. The party said the examination body took the action following the inability of the state government led by Mr. Seriake Dickson, ...

  • USA Nigeria

    Nigeria pays ECOWAS $54m community levy

    The Economic of West African States has said Nigeria paid $54m as part of its obligation to the Community Levy for 2015 to implement programmes and projects in the sub-region. The group’s Commissioner for Finance, Mr Allieu Sesay, said this at the Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in ...

  • Nigeria

    National Assembly summons Ngige over NSITF employment scam

    Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The National Assembly has summoned the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige, over alleged recruitment scam at the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund. Ngige is to appear before the lawmakers on Tuesday (today). The Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria’s recession drags West Africa’s GDP down – ECOWAS

    The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Marcel de Souza, says the recession being experienced in Nigeria has a negative impact on the sub-region’s overall economic performance. De Souza said this while presenting the Community Status Report at the ongoing Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja on ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria Will Be An Agric Business Success – Obasanjo

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he is hopeful that Nigeria will be an Agric business success. The former president stated this while briefing newsmen at the 2nd Group Meeting of the Nigeria Zero Hunger Strategic Review 2030, which held in Abuja on Tuesday. Obasanjo while reacting to questions ...

  • USA

    International Breeding, Agro Equipment Show opens in Algiers

    ALGIERS- International Breeding and Agro Equipment Show (Sipsa-Sima) has opened Tuesday in Algiers, with the participation of about 600 exhibitors from 25 countries, including the United States, the event's guest of honour. It's the 16th edition of the Sipsa, which has associated this year with the global trade show ...

  • Algeria

    E-payment officially launched in Algeria Tuesday

    ALGIERS- E-payment service is to be officially launched in Algeria on Tuesday, October 4th, the Association of Banks and Financial Institutions (ABEF) said Monday in a statement. The launching ceremony, organized by the ABEF, will be attended by the minister of Finance, Hadji Baba Ammi, the minister of Poste, ...

  • India USA

    Nearly 385 million children living in extreme poverty, says World Bank-UNICEF study

    Source: World Bank, UN Children's Fund Country: WorldChildren are disproportionately affected, as they make up half of the extreme poor. Youngest children are the most at risk – with more than one-fifth of under-fives in the developing world living in extremely poor households. Nearly 385 million children living in extreme poverty, says ...