The United Bank for Africa Plc and the Saudi Export-Import Bank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to foster economic cooperation and trade relations. According to a statement from the lender, the MoU was signed on the sidelines of the Saudi-African Summit in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. It stated that the partnership between the bank…
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday vowed to upload polling unit results on its INEC Result Viewing portal. The commission also noted that it has made arrangements for land and maritime transportation to ensure that electoral materials are made available to ensure that voting commences on time. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Kogi state,…
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the November 11 election, Senator Dino Melaye, has vowed to govern the state with the fear of God and not by religion or tribe if elected. The PDP held the grand finale of the campaign at the state party secretariat in Lokoja, the state capital on…
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denied that Ukraine’s war with Russia had reached a “stalemate”, pushing back at suggestions Western leaders were lobbying for peace talks. The sprawling front line between the two warring sides has barely moved in almost a year, with one senior Ukrainian official warning this week that the conflict was deadlocked. “Time…
This warning was contained in a release by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) on weather alerting the public on the possibility of deterioration in visibility as a result of observed dust haze propagated into the country from the source region. According to the release, “Winds over 10m and 925hPha are favorable for Dust-Haze propagations into…
According to a statement on CCECC’s website, on Thursday the container carried 40-foot containers to Ibadan. “It departed from Apapa Port and carried a total of 30 40-foot containers, arriving at Ibadan station in just two and a half hours,” it read. ‘This train is the first container freight train after the cement freight train…
Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of an FCT High Court ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to either release the embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, immediately or produce him in court on Nov. 6. Mr Adeniyi gave the order after hearing an ex parte motion marked M/122/2023 in…
The families of nine Israeli victims of last month’s Hamas attacks have lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, according to their lawyer. The families also want Hamas, the group that governs Gaza, prosecuted for suspected war crimes, and for the ICC to issue an international arrest warrant for its leaders,…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Monday, accused the police of shooting at him on his way to inspect the State House of Assembly Complex that was gutted by fire last night. Fubara named a senior officer in the Rivers State Police Command as the leader of the team that was deployed to obstruct his…
