In spite of President Bola Tinubu’s move to cut down the cost of governance, and his recent move to merge, or eliminate some government agencies, the same president is set to visit Qatar with two of his children, Seyi and Yinka, as part of the delegation delegation to travel with him, between March 2nd and 3rd 2024, on a state visit to Doha, capital of Qatar.
Author: Abdoulaye Kay
For alledgely helping Addax Petroleum to escape a $2.4 billion liability to Nigeria, the Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI), has slammed bribery and tax-related charges in the United States, against a senior Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) official, Paulinus Iheanacho Okoronkwo.
Ajijah Andrew, 43, is a regular blood donor whose first donation was in 1998 while in the Command Day Secondary School Jos. It was then just a casual action till in 2015 when his perspective on the exercise changed.
This is a key finding of a large locally relevant and globally coordinated study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) that includes 48 Indigenous Peoples and local communities across all climate zones on all inhabited continents. The project “Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts” (LICCI), led by Victoria Reyes-García, ICREA Research Professor at ICTA-UAB, has been funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and conducted in collaboration with numerous local organizations, ranging from universities and governmental institutions to the civil society. Results from this work were recently published in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.
ASHENEWS reports that the Katsina State Government has aligned with The Alternative Bank’s mission to support rural economies through innovative financial solutions, tailored to empower local businesses and stimulate sustainable development across the state.
The Nigerian government, during its Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Monday, adopted to merge agencies in adoption of the Steve Oronsaye panel report on the restructuring and rationalisation of Federal agencies, parastatals and commissions.
The Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘B’ Kaduna of the Nigeria Customs Service, says it has arrested the officer, for alleged extortion of N500,000.00 from a car buyer named, Muhammad Dahiru Ahmad along Mokwa-Jebba Road in Niger state.
ASHENEWS quotes Statista as saying that Gmail is the world’s most popular email service, with more than 1.5bn active users worldwide. But a post on X, formerly Twitter, viewed more than seven million times, has claimed that Gmail would be closing in August 2024.
Crisis has engulfed the Zamfara Assembly with the suspension of 16 members by the Speaker of the House, Bilyaminu Moriki, and six other members, for threatening to impeach the number person of the House last Thursday.
Some Nigerian private sectors players, including Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Tony Elumelu, Innocent Chukwuma (Innoson), Abdul Samad Rabiu (BUA), are among others appointed by President Bola Tinubu as economic advisers.