• Kenya

    Business in county assemblies starts as Speakers sworn in

    In Embu, Mr Josiah Thiriku declared county assembly Speaker.

  • Nigeria

    Senate celebrates Nigeria’s exit from recession

    Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The 8th Senate on Tuesday applauded the report by the National Bureau of Statistics indicating that Nigeria’s economy has officially exited recession. The Senate, in a statement by Chairman of its Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, stated that it was truly commendable that ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria, South Africa exit recession in Q2

    Nigeria and South Africa have both exited recession, notching up economic growth of 0.6 percent and 2.5 percent respectively in the second quarter, official data showed on Tuesday. Nigeria’s economy returned to growth after five consecutive quarters of contraction, driven by a strong performance in the oil, agricultural, manufacturing and ...

  • Nigeria

    Farmers want FG to suspend importation of maize

    The Nigeria Farmers Group and Cooperative Society, on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to set a time line to ban the importation of maize into the country. The group’s National Coordinator, Mr Redson Tedheke, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the suspension of ...

  • USA

    Mexico condemns Trump’s decision to end immigrant amnesty

    Mexico condemned US President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to end an amnesty for thousands of people brought illegally to the United States as children, expressing “deep worry” for the uncertainty they now face. “The Mexican government deeply regrets the cancellation” of the program known as DACA, the foreign ministry said ...

  • Nigeria

    Torturing of crime suspects now illegal in Kaduna – DPP

    Director of Public Prosecution, Kaduna State Ministry of Justice, Bayero Dare on Tuesday hinted that torturing crime suspects to obtain confessional statement by security agents without their lawyers is now illegal in Kaduna State. This development was coming as a result of signing into law administration of justice law by Governor Nasir ...

  • Nigeria

    NIS unveils additional centres for resident permits

    The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has created 28 additional centres for the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Aliens Card (CERPAC) in order to reduce cases of issuance of fake residence permits and aliens cards to expatriates coming into the country. Dr Benoy Berry, Chairman of CONTEC GLOBAL, the technical partner to ...

  • Indonesia Nigeria

    Obaseki set to revamp Agriculture, create jobs in Edo

    The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, is currently in Indonesia to deepen his administration’s partnership with the Asian country, in a bid to revamp the agricultural sector and reposition the state as the oil palm capital of Nigeria.   Speaking at the 101-year-old Indonesian Oil Palm Research Institute ...

  • Nigeria

    NDLEA arrests man with hard drugs in Jos

    The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA ) in Plateau on Tuesday said it had arrested a 25-year-old man, Zulkifil Aliyu, who specialised in illegal narcotics trade within Jos metropolis. The agency’s Commander in the State, Mr Ibrahim Bragi, confirmed Aliyu’s arrest to newsmen in Jos. Read also: NDLEA destroys ...

  • USA Malta

    Watch: 800,000 risk deportation as Trump scraps immigration scheme

    Updated 6.20pm US president Donald Trump today scrapped a program that protects from deportation almost 800,000 young men and women who were brought into the United States illegally as children, ordering a phased-out dismantling that gives a gridlocked Congress six months to decide the immigrants' fate. Trump's action, announced by Attorney General ...