• Nigeria

    Defence HQ, NILEST partner on Made-in-Nigeria military boots

    The Defence Headquarters is to collaborate with the Nigerian Institute of Leather Science and Technology, Zaria to produce “Made-in-Nigeria” military boots. The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin, disclosed this when he paid a courtesy visit to the Acting Director-General of NILEST, Dr Ekeria Ngozie-Oparah, on Tuesday in Zaria, ...

  • Nigeria

    70 ladies to participate in maiden Lagos 4-inch High Heels Race

    Seventy ladies are to participate in the maiden edition of 4-inch High Heels Race Competition billed for Nov. 18 in Lagos to encourage ladies to be smart and confident on high heels. The organiser, Dede Kalu, also the Chief Executive Officer, DAK Marketing Online Services, made this known on Tuesday ...

  • Nigeria

    Nursing mother, five others beat up DPO in Lagos

    Two women and four men were on Tuesday arraigned in an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly battering a Divisional Police Officer who was on his way to perform his official duty. The accused, who are all residing at Ikorodu, near Lagos are Kehinde Alimot, 40; Bukola Ahmed, 32; ...

  • Nigeria

    AfDB salutes Nigeria’s economic recovery, diversification efforts

    The Nigeria House of Representatives has constituted a Tactical Committee on Economic Recession to guide innovative legislative actions by the House and the National Assembly to return the economy to the path of growth and stability.  In this regard, the committee is holding a summit in the nation’s capital, Abuja, ...

  • Nigeria

    NDLEA Destroys 54,244, 639kg of illicit drugs worth N10b in Kano

    The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA ) yesterday in Kano destroyed over 54, 244, 639kg of assorted narcotic drugs worth over N10 billion. Speaking during a brief ceremony witnessed by Kano state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the state NDLEA chairman and Chief Executive, Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah ...

  • Kenya

    Huawei, Safaricom Partner On Fiber Penetration In Kenya

    By Nkechi Isaac Huawei is partnering with Safaricom to make Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) accessible to more homes in Kenya by innovatively tackling current challenges such as scattered user distribution, high network construction costs and low early phase service provisioning rates and revenues. Recall that despite the high levels of mobile penetration ...

  • Regno Unito

    Kalimat Presents Popular Bloomsbury Titles in Arabic at SIBF 2017

    By Solomon Nda-Isaiah, Dubai …Part of publisher’s strategy to develop the UAE’s publishing industry A year and half into their partnership with the renowned UK-based Bloomsbury Publishing, Kalimat Group, the Sharjah-based regional frontrunner in the field of Arabic Literature publishing, has launched five new titles, which were released as part ...

  • Francia

    Quelle marge de manœuvre pour Sonatrach ?

    Quelle sera la place de l’Algérie sur le marché mondial du gaz dans les années à venir, et quelle stratégie va-t-elle adopter pour remplacer avantageusement les contrats à long terme qui la lient à ses clients européens, et dont la date d’expiration s’étale de 2018 à 2021 ? Les responsables ...

  • USA Australia Nuova Zelanda

    Court ruling on Manus Island jeopardizes lives - Amnesty

    Source: Amnesty International Country: Australia, Papua New GuineaCritical services must be restored to the more than 600 refugees and vulnerable men inside the Lombrum detention centre before a major tragedy occurs, Amnesty International said.The current situation on Manus Island amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment Lives are at risk unless PNG ...

  • Kenya

    Double-digit growth still within grasp, says Vision 2030 boss

    It is understood that when some officials at the World Bank heard that the latest Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) by the Stanbic Bank of Kenya, had hit a record low of 34.4, they wondered if Kenya had plunged into a recession.