• USA

    Apple maintains No. 1 tech firm by revenue

    US tech giant Apple Inc. maintained its status as the world's top IT firm by sales in 2016, data showed Wednesday.Accord

  • Nigeria

    Osinbajo to attend 2017 National Insurance Conference

    Mr. Shola Tinubu, Chairman, Planning Committee, 2017 National Insurance Conference (NIC), said on Tuesday that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo would declare open the three-day conference to begin on July 9. Tinubu, who made this known at a press briefing in Lagos, said that the conference would hold at the Transcorp ...

  • Nigeria

    Oyo to support NIPC in promoting investment

    Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Tuesday said his administration would   support the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) in its efforts at promoting investment in the country. The governor said this   in Ibadan on Tuesday while receiving a delegation of the NIPC in his office. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports ...

  • USA Nigeria

    Osinbajo: ethnic confrontation is not a game

    Acting President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday implored North’s traditional rulers to advise youths fanning the embers of discord to stop because ethnic confrontation is not a game. He told the monarchs at a meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, that it was their duty to guide the youths. “Let us continue ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria loses N140b weekly to Apapa gridlock, says Dangote

    The President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote yesterday said the Federal Government loses about N140billion weekly because of the deplorable condition of the Apapa ports access roads. He, however lauded, the government’s decision to reconstruct the failed Apapa Wharf road. Dangote said: “The economy loses more than N20 billion daily. It ...

  • Nigeria

    Ganduje Approves N578m For 44,000 Primary Teachers’ Arrears

    By SALIHI ABUBAKAR BELLO, Kano Kano State governor, Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, has approved the payment of promotion arrears to the tune of N578,565,178.51 to about 44,665 primary school teachers in the state. The state commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba,stated this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the weekly ...

  • Nigeria

    FG Attracts $4bn Telecom Investment From Indians

    By CHIMA AKWAJA, Lagos And NKECHI ISAAC, Abuja The federal government of Nigeria has clinched a business deal that would see Indian investors pump over $4 billion in the nation’s telecommunication sector. Nigeria’s head of delegation to the just concluded World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS FORUM 2017 and ...

  • Nigeria

    Mulino: Martinelli es un perseguido político

    El dirigente del Cambio Democrático y exministro de Seguridad, José Raúl Mulino, dijo que el expresidente Ricardo Martinelli es un perseguido político por parte del mandatario Juan Carlos Varela. Añadió  que durante los procesos que se le siguen al expresidente Martinelli no se le ha respetado  sus garantías constitucionales y derechos. ...

  • Senegal

    Vote de la loi portant création de la Société de télédiffusion du Sénégal

    Dakar, 20 juin, (APS) – Les députés ont adopté, mardi après-midi, à la majorité des votants, la loi portant création de la Société de Télédiffusion du Sénégal (STDS/SA), une nouvelle structure en charge de la gestion de la télédiffusion numérique. - Société

  • Senegal

    Les députés saluent l'adoption du nouveau Code de la presse

    Dakar, 20 juin (APS) – Les députés ont salué à l'unanimité l'adoption, mardi, du projet de Code de la presse qui remplace la loi de 1996 relative aux organes de communication sociale et à la profession de journaliste et de technicien, a constaté l'APS. - Société