• Kenya

    Business: Black Soldier Fly: Insect that can turn farm waste into rich animal feed

    A top international research centre in Kenya has been conducting a study on an insect that may change the fortunes of fish and poultry farmers by significantly reducing the cost of feeds.

  • Kenya

    Kenya: Proposed law makes it easier for Kenyans to donate organs

    Happy Kidney Foundation says the greatest challenge is getting people to donate their bodies or body parts to be used after their death.

  • Kenya

    Kenya: Get papers, customary law not enough, says AG

    A new directive issued on Friday by Attorney General Githu Muigai has also tightened the noose on those who do not want to legalise their marriages by making it mandatory to those in unions made under customary or Hindu ceremonies to register their unions by August 1.

  • USA Nigeria

    Nigeria has suffered long to break up now, says US don

    Jesusegun Alagbe A Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, Illinois, United States of America, Richard Joseph, on Friday said despite the myriad of problems facing Nigeria, it should not contemplate breaking up. Joseph — whose research works focus on African politics, democratisation, political economy, and international security — said ...

  • Qatar USA

    NDLEA nabs two for drug importation to US, Doha

    Kunle Falayi A 59 year-old contractor, Okechukwu Joseph, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for ingesting heroin, which he was smuggling to New York. Also arrested is a 41 year-old safety officer, Nnaji Austine, who was exporting Cannabis and Tramadol to Qatar. According to a statement ...

  • Nigeria

    Osinbajo to sign 2017 budget next week, says Dogara

    John Ameh, Abuja The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, on Friday said that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo would sign the 2017 budget into law “early next week.” Dogara made this known during the second anniversary session of the 8th House of Representatives in Abuja. Although the ...

  • Nigeria

    Anti-Igbo threat: Police must arrest Arewa youth leaders, IPCR insists

    Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, a parastatal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has called on the police to ensure the arrest of northern youth leaders for their threat against the Igbo. The agency insisted that the police must be proactive in tracking down and ...

  • Nigeria

    Ultimatum, ploy to loot Igbo investments in northern Nigeria – IYC

    Friday Amobi, Port Harcourt The Ijaw Youth Congress has described the insistence on a quit notice to Igbo people in the North by northern youths as a ploy by such youths to loot the massive investments of Ndigbo in the area. IYC President, Mr. Eric Omare, told our correspondent in ...

  • USA Francia Nigeria

    FG releases Paris Club refund details to states

    Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja Facts have emerged as to how the Federal Government allocated the first tranche of N516.38bn reimbursement made to the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory from the Paris Club debt refund. Based on the schedule of reimbursement, which was released by the Ministry ...

  • Brasile

    TJ-SP derruba lei e permite que Doria retire cobradores de ônibus

    O Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São Paulo (TJ-SP) declarou inconstitucional a lei que obriga a presença de um cobrador nos ônibus da cidade de São Paulo. Aberto durante a gestão Fernando Haddad (PT), o processo teve a decisão comemorada pelo prefeito João Doria (PSDB), que já havia declarado ...