Nigerian Government has said that it was pushing for 400 billion dollars commitments from developed countries and partners on climate change to finance its Energy Transition Plan (ETP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that implementable negotiations continues on Tuesday at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, venue of the global conference on climate change otherwise […]
CNN — Qatar FIFA World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman has said homosexuality is “damage in the mind,” in an interview with German broadcaster ZDF on Monday. The interview, filmed in Doha less than two weeks before the start of the tournament, was immediately stopped by an official from the World Cup organizing committee. During […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has uncovered plans by some unscrupulous elements to introduce a lethal synthetic opioid, Fentanyl, which is 100 times stronger than tramadol and heroin, into the Nigerian market. The NDLEA warned that the illicitly manufactured drug is capable of causing mass casualty among the youth population being […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held back tears speaking Monday for the first time about being awakened by pounding on the door as Capitol Police rushed to tell her about the assault on her husband at the family’s home in San Francisco. “I was very scared,” Pelosi told CNN in an interview. “I’m thinking my children, […]
The 13-year-old Nigerian-born Emmanuella Mayaki, has set a new record as one of the youngest persons to be accepted into a University in the U.S. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mayaki was accepted into the Programme for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG) at the Mary Baldwin University, U.S. to study Computer Science in […]
The Federal Government, on Monday announced the re-opening of train services on the Abuja-Kaduna Rail corridor on November. The Minister of Transportation, Mr Mu’azu Sambo, made this known to newsmen while presenting President Muhammadu Buhari’s scorecard in the Transportation Ministry from 2015 to 2022 in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that services […]
Amidst the nation’s dwindling economy, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has lamented that the inability of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to remit any revenue into the federation’s account since the beginning of this year has put many states into severe financial distress. El-Rufai raised the concern at the 2022 Tax Dialogue […]
It is rare for Donald Trump to deliver the same message as Barack Obama and Joe Biden – but it happened when the Republican and two Democrats campaigned in Pennsylvania on the same day. The political foes all urged Americans in the crucial state: go vote. Mr Biden and Mr Obama cast the election as […]