The United Kingdom’s (UK) Department for International Trade says new trade agreements will come into force in January for the UK with 14 African partners with the prospect of more countries to follow. This is according to a statement issued by the department’s Nigerian office on Saturday. It added that 35 African partners will also receive preferential access to the UK through its trade presences scheme. It also announced that the department would host a one-day virtual Africa Investment Conference on Jan. 20, 2021. The conference is expected to bring together UK and African businesses to explore opportunities for partnership…
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The Nigeria Police have confirmed the abduction of students of Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina state by bandits. This is just when on Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari visited the state on a week-long vacation. Media reports say that the bandits first abducted the wife of an employee in the school after which they stormed the students’ hostel and abducted many students. Reports further disclosed that when troops of the Nigerian Army arrived at the school, the bandits escaped with some of the students, while some others ran away during the gun duel between the troops and the bandits.…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has said that indigenous communities must be resettled if the territory wanted to get rid of slums within the city centre. Alhaji Mukhtar Galadima, FCTA Director, Department of Development Control, stated this shortly after a demolition exercise at Guzape District on Friday in Abuja. Galadima stressed that resettling such communities had become necessary due to the huge population growth usually recorded in such areas. He said that many people would be resettled in 2021, following efforts by the current administration to relocate communities. “The Federal Capital Development Authority saddled with this responsibility is up…
Nigeria on Friday registered 796 new cases, highest single -day COVID-19 infections in 24 hours, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) said on its website. The new infections showed an increase of 51 cases over the previous record of 745 registered cases, almost six months ago on 19 June, 2020. The agency said that the 796 were diagnosed with COVID-19 in 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory, bring the total nationally to 72,140 with 190 deaths.. FCT led with 258 cases of the virus, while Lagos came second with 248, and Kaduna state in third position with 117, NCDC…
The death has occurred of the Publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah. He died at age 58. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari in a condolence message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Saturday, condoled with the media fraternity, the Nda-Isaiah family, friends and associates of the deceased. He described him as ‘a friend and ally’. “The country has lost a man of conviction, a resolute and dogged believer in a better Nigeria. “He will be sorely missed. This is a massive fish gone out of the media ocean,” Buhari said of the pharmacist, renowned columnist, and one time…
No fewer than 238, 868 individuals from 41,726 businesses have been paid various sums under the Payroll Support Scheme as at Dec. 8, an update by the Project Delivery Office (PDO) has said. The update was made available to newsmen on Friday in Abuja by Tola Johnson, Special Assistant to the President on Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Office of the Vice President and Coordinator, PDO. The Payroll Support is a component of the Survival Fund Scheme for MSMEs captured under the National Economic Sustainability Plan drafted by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo-led Economic Sustainability Committee and approved by President…
Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu, Enugu State, on Thursday, committed Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo to prison for fraud. Nwankwo, former Rector, Enugu Polytechnic, Ndeabor, Ani-Nri, Local Government Area, was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on six-counts charges, bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of N1,153,700.00, being the amount he obtained by fraud from some students of the school in contravention of Section 1(1)(a) of Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and Punishable under Section 1(3) of the…
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday ordered that only the counsel, parties involved and accredited journalists would be allowed into the courtroom in the trial of trial of Convener, #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore. Sowore and Bakare were, on Feb. 13, rearraigned on a two-count charge of treasonable felony, against the initial seven-count charge filed against them in September 2019. They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. Delivering a ruling, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu noted that accredited journalists were not excluded from the court. “I am inclined to grant the application in line with COVID-19…
Nigerian ambassador to the United States, Mr Syvanus Nsofor is dead, aged 85, Arise News TV reports. He reportedly died in a Maryland hospital on Thursday. A retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, Nsofor assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States on November 13, 2017. Born on March 17, 1935, Nsofor was appointed a judge in 1977 and he spent 28 years on the bench, 13 of which were as a Justice of the Court of Appeal (JCA). At 82 years, he was nominated as a non-career ambassador by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The U.S. has donated maritime security equipment worth $180,000 (N70 million) to the Nigerian Navy, the U.S Consulate in Lagos said in a statement on Friday. The equipment is to enable the navy to upgrade the anti-piracy and nautical security functions of the country’s Regional Maritime Awareness Capability (RMAC). RMAC was developed in 2006 to upgrade the maritime domain awareness capability of U.S. partners. The consulate said that the equipment donated were integrated to improve the navy’s capacity to track and counter marine threats through its RMAC. The donations include, “a selection of best-in-class sensors and radars, communications and networking…