Police have rescued 216 human trafficking victims, mainly children, from forced labour and prostitution in a major operation in Benin and Nigeria, Interpol said on Wednesday. Operation Epervier II involved 100 police officers across the two countries that rescued 157 child slaves, said the global police organisation, which coordinated the raids in early April. Many […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has said it would soon pull down over 7,000 telecommunication masts and towers belonging to Global System for Mobile Communications [GSM] providers. The NCAA had equally given a 30-day ultimatum to affected operators to comply with its directive of getting the relevant ‘clearance’. In a statement signed by its […]
Commodity trader Olam International on Tuesday said it will buy Dangote Flour Mills Plc, as it looks to bolster its position in Nigeria’s wheat market. Olam’s Nigerian unit, which holds a 0.1 percent stake in Dangote Flour Mills, will buy the rest of the company for an enterprise value of 130 billion naira ($425 million). […]
World Bank loan portfolio in Nigeria now stands at $8.67bn, an investigation has shown. Loans from the International Development Association, one of the three arms of the World Bank, make up $8.55bn of the portfolio. Loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, another arm of the Breton Woods institution, make up $124.18m of […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said that the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results will be released after the Easter break. Days after writing their exams, UTME candidates are yet to see their results as JAMB claimed the results are being screened due to alleged massive fraud recorded in the 2019 UTME. […]
Punch newspaper report reveales that public hospitals are battling with obsolete equipment in some hospitals while some medical facilities have none. Consequently, patients with cancer and terminal ailments are being subjected to needless wait before treatment could get to them. Confirming the dearth of vital equipment, the President of the NMA, Dr Francis Faduyile, in […]
A fire on Nigeria’s oil-exporting Nembe Creek Trunk Line reported on Sunday has been completely extinguished, operator Aiteo said in a statement. The company declared force majeure and closed the pipeline, one of two lines exporting Bonny Light crude oil, over the weekend. Royal Dutch Shell said that operations continued at the Bonny Light terminal, […]
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations could “more than make up” for any drop in Iranian oil supplies to global markets now that his administration has decided to end waivers that allowed some nations to buy Iranian oil without facing U.S. sanctions. “Saudi Arabia and others in […]
Sprinter Divine Oduduru, last weekend gave Nigerian athletics hope by running 9.95seconds, a world leading performance at the Michael Johnson invitational meet in Waco Texas, USA. It was the first time a Nigerian sprinter is breaking the 10.00 seconds barrier since 2006, when Olusoji Fasuba broke the African record with a 9.85 seconds run in […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has again raised the alarm that Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder due to the high rate and prevalence of drug addicts across the country. The agency said it was shocking that Nigeria was leading even beyond the international coverage of drug […]