The World Bank Group (WBG) has expressed its readiness to help in increasing assistance to Nigeria’s poor and vulnerable. Vice President Osinbajo, in a tweet on Friday, said he met with WBG President, David Malpass, and discussed a wide range of issues including climate, energy, investment, exchange rate and poverty reduction. The News Agency of […]
Microsoft’s plan to buy Activision Blizzard could substantially lessen competition in consoles, multi-game subscription services and game streaming, a UK watchdog has said. Microsoft wants to buy the maker of Overwatch, Candy Crush and Call of Duty for $68.7bn (£59.2bn). But the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says its concerns mean it may now […]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, slammed the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, for showing “ingratitude” and “arrogance” after he was assisted to get the seat of the national chairmanship of the party. “These children you said we are, brought you from nothing,” the governor said during the commissioning […]
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba, among other experts, have called for continuous collective efforts and urgent action to safeguard the African continent from climate change. In a statement from the Communication and External Relations Department, African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday, Ondimba made the call at the 2022 Africa Climate Week which opened in Libreville, […]
Mr Jarl Hansstein, Chief Techinal Advisor, United Nations Industrial Organisation (UNIDO), said it had collaborated with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), to register informal businesses. Hansstein said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that registration for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) was part of UNIDO’s […]
The UN Joint Action Against HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has assured of its commitment to ensure that people living with HIV/AIDS can live a normal life HIV/AIDS through access to tests and treatments. Dr Leo Zekeng, Country Director, UNAIDS said on Wednesday in Abuja at an advocacy meeting to launch availability of CD4 test machines and reagents […]
The chairman of Russia’s Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say. The company confirmed his death but said only that Maganov, 67, had “passed away following a severe illness”. Russian media said he was being treated at Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital and died of his […]
Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said his administration will attempt to reunite Nigeria using the provisions of the law. Mr Obi at a town hall event in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday, said a review of the Constitution will be part of the overall restructuring Nigerians desire. […]