Nigeria @ 63: Gains of Nigeria-China’s diplomatic relations

Nigeria @ 63: Gains of Nigeria-China’s diplomatic relations

-By Fortune Abang: Nigeria’s strategic partnership with China has continued to attract tangible development since inception of the formal establishment of Nigeria-China diplomatic relations on Feb. 10, 1971.Over the years, both countries worked closely together, particularly in celebration of their respective independence…

African anti-narcotics bodies seek specialised courts for drug cases, money laundering

African anti-narcotics bodies seek specialised courts for drug cases, money laundering

Heads of drug law enforcement agencies in Africa have called for the setting up of specialized courts to try drug cases and other organized crimes across the continent. This was part of recommendations adopted at the end of the weeklong 31st Meeting…

UN Appeals to Nigeria to Commit Specific Percent of Budget to Addressing Gender Disparity

UN Appeals to Nigeria to Commit Specific Percent of Budget to Addressing Gender Disparity

The United Nations has appealed to Nigerian government to commit specific percent of national budgets and development funds to interventions that address gender disparity in the country. Addressing the media at the end of his visit to Nigeria, the UN Women Regional…

78th UNGA: Foreign Affairs Minister Meets with U.S Assistant Secretary of State

78th UNGA: Foreign Affairs Minister Meets with U.S Assistant Secretary of State

Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar has held bilateral discussion with United States Assistant Secretary of State., Hon. Molly Phee on the sidelines of the ongoing 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) A statement from the minister’s spokesman, Alkasim AbdulKadir on…

Death of Remilekun Meshioye, NIDCOM Demands Justice from Egyptair

Death of Remilekun Meshioye, NIDCOM Demands Justice from Egyptair

The Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has demanded for justice from the management of Egyptair over the death of a Nigerian, Ms Remilekun Toyosi Meshioye, who died aboard the airline’s plane on Sept. 4, 2023. The demand for…

Nigeria, Ghana Signs MoU to Boost Rice, Wheat, Soya beans Production

Nigeria, Ghana Signs MoU to Boost Rice, Wheat, Soya beans Production

Nigeria and Ghana have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) towards boosting production of agricultural produce. The MoU was signed betwen a Nigerian company, EGTA Investment Limited and a Ghanaian conglomerate, Jospong Group of Companies, at the Ghana High Commission in Abuja…

UN Commits to Invest in Development of Green Economy Skills in Youths

UN Commits to Invest in Development of Green Economy Skills in Youths

The United Nations Inter Agency Group on Youth has reassured of its commitment to investing on young people in the area of green economy to ensure Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This was made known at the discussion organised by the UN Information…

Nigerian students advised to pick up admission in Ghana’s ivory tower to reinforce relationship

Nigerian students advised to pick up admission in Ghana’s ivory tower to reinforce relationship

Nigerians have been advised to pick up admissions from Ghanaian ivory towers in order to reinforce the relationship existing between Nigeria and Ghana that date back to the colonial era. Both Nigeria and Ghana were colonized by the British government and they…

Human-Centric Globalisation: Taking G20 to Last Mile, Leaving None Behind

Human-Centric Globalisation: Taking G20 to Last Mile, Leaving None Behind

-By Narendra Modi: ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ – these two words capture a deep philosophy. It means ‘the world is one family’. This is an all-embracing outlook that encourages us to progress as one universal family, transcending borders, languages, and ideologies. During India’s G20…

USAID Has Facilitated $205 million Debt, Equity Investment for Nigerian Agribusinesses

USAID Has Facilitated $205 million Debt, Equity Investment for Nigerian Agribusinesses

Over the past five years, USAID has promoted private sector-led economic growth in Nigeria by facilitating $205 million in debt and equity investments for Nigerian agribusinesses. This was revealed on Wednesday when the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded West Africa Trade…

Head of UN Counter-Terrorism Office Concludes Visit to Nigeria

Head of UN Counter-Terrorism Office Concludes Visit to Nigeria

The Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter- Terrorism (UNOCT), Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, has concluded a week-long high-level visit to Nigeria. During his visit which ended on Tuesday, Voronkov held a series of high-level bilateral meetings with the President of Nigeria,…

UK Seeks More Ways To Build Stronger Trade and Investment With Nigeria

UK Seeks More Ways To Build Stronger Trade and Investment With Nigeria

British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Mr Jonny Baxter, was in Enugu State to attend the inaugural edition of the state’s Diaspora and Investment Roundtable, hosted by the Governor, Mr. Peter Mbah. The stakeholder roundtable was an opportunity for high-level discussions on…

Nigeria at Critical Point, in Dire Need of Transformation- Tunji-Ojo

Nigeria at Critical Point, in Dire Need of Transformation- Tunji-Ojo

Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has charged agency heads on the need to walk their talk as the country is at a critical point and in dire need of transformation. Speaking at a brief with the Acting Comptroller General of Immigration,…

Immigration Opens E-Passport Office in Kaduna

Immigration Opens E-Passport Office in Kaduna

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has unveiled an enhanced e-Passport Production Centre in Kaduna, Kaduna State. At the official commissioning ceremony on Tuesday at the Kaduna State Command, the Executive Governor of Kaduna State who was represented at the event by his…

AFRICA, DEMOCRACY, AND THE BARREL OF A LOADED GUN

AFRICA, DEMOCRACY, AND THE BARREL OF A LOADED GUN

–By Austen Akhagbeme: There has been a growing concern recently in Africa about the return of the era of military coup d’etats as was witnessed in the late sixties and seventies. The recent military overthrow of President Ali Bongo of the mineral-rich…

South African arrested with methamphetamine consignment at Abuja airport

South African arrested with methamphetamine consignment at Abuja airport

A South African, Erasmus Jean – Pierre has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja over attempt to smuggling 2.6 kilogrammes of methamphetamine via the Nigerian airport to the Middle…

FG, British High Commission Host Workshop on UK’s New Trading Scheme

FG, British High Commission Host Workshop on UK’s New Trading Scheme

The Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment in collaboration with the British High Commission hosted a one day workshop, on the UK’s new trading scheme. The UK officially launched the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) in June 2023, which offers fast…

Chinese Envoy Says Nigeria Must Invest in Education, Food, Housing, Others to Eradicate Poverty

Chinese Envoy Says Nigeria Must Invest in Education, Food, Housing, Others to Eradicate Poverty

The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun has said that for Nigeria to achieve the targeted poverty eradication, there must be conscious and systemic investment in education, food, housing, security and others. The advice came at a time that President Bola Tinubu…

Tuggar Tells Nigerians to Expect New Foreign Policy Vision Soon

Tuggar Tells Nigerians to Expect New Foreign Policy Vision Soon

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar has promised to unveil the administration’s foreign policy vision in few days time. The Minister gave this promised on Monday shortly after resuming work at the Ministry after he was swore in at the…

NHRC Asks Well Meaning Nigerians to Join Humanitarian Train

NHRC Asks Well Meaning Nigerians to Join Humanitarian Train

As Nigeria joins the rest of the global community to commemorate the 2023 World Humanitarian Day (WHD), the Executive Secretary of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chief Tony Ojukwu has called on well-meaning Nigerians to join the humanitarian train by lending a…

Over 3.5 million Displaced by Crisis in Nigeria-UN37 Aid Workers Lost, 24 Wounded, 34 Kidnapped in North East Since 2016

Over 3.5 million Displaced by Crisis in Nigeria-UN37 Aid Workers Lost, 24 Wounded, 34 Kidnapped in North East Since 2016

Over 3.5 million people are internally displaced in the country as a result of crises, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) data has revealed. Also the insurgency in the Northeast, mostly affecting Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) states have led…

We Are Yet To Receive USAID $1m Donation For Flood Victims – NEMA DG

We Are Yet To Receive USAID $1m Donation For Flood Victims – NEMA DG

The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Ahmed said the agency did not receive any $1 million donation from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), for the support of flood victims in 2022. The NEMA boss stated…

SADC Supports AU, ECOWAS Positions on Niger Coup D’etat

SADC Supports AU, ECOWAS Positions on Niger Coup D’etat

The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) bloc in Nigeria on Thursday said the action taken so far by both the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the political impasse brought about by the military coup…

Adepoju Says Continued Synergy Needed Among Security Agencies to Safeguard Nigeria

Adepoju Says Continued Synergy Needed Among Security Agencies to Safeguard Nigeria

Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Caroline Adepoju has called for sustained synergy among security agencies in dual areas of both border security and migration management to safeguard Nigeria’s territorial integrity. She equally said a management training of security…

ECOWAS Expresses Worry Over Killings of Soldiers in Niger

ECOWAS Expresses Worry Over Killings of Soldiers in Niger

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has expressed worries over the degeneration of situation in troubled Niger that has resulted in several killings of Nigerien soldiers by armed groups. The Commission in a statement on Wednesday reiterated the call…

USAID, Other Stakeholders Partner to Reduce Malnutrition

USAID, Other Stakeholders Partner to Reduce Malnutrition

The United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with the Government of Nigeria and other stakeholders, held a trade fair in Abuja to foster innovation and collaboration to address severe acute malnutrition. Tagged “Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods…

ECOWAS Accuses Nigerien Junta of Provocation

ECOWAS Accuses Nigerien Junta of Provocation

The Economic Community of West African States {ECOWAS) Commission has accused the Nigerien junta of provocation and contradicting it’s reported willingness to dialogue in order to resolve the troubled country’s political impasse with latest move to charged the deposed President Mohamed Bazoum…

Wase to Lead ECOWAS Parliament Mediation Team to Niger

Wase to Lead ECOWAS Parliament Mediation Team to Niger

The Community Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), otherwise known as ECOWAS Parliament has appointed Nigeria’s lawmaker, Idris Wase to lead 10 other parliamentarians to Mediate with Niger junta. This is a last ditch attempt by the subregional…

Nigerian Embassy in Niger Not Razed- Ambassador

Nigerian Embassy in Niger Not Razed- Ambassador

The Nigerian Embassy in Niger had not be razed, the Nigeria’s Ambassador to Niger has said. In a statement on Saturday signed by Dr Litti Auwalu on behalf of the Ambassador, the purported video showing the Embassy was set ablaze by the…

Nigeria’s Ambassador to France is Dead

Nigeria’s Ambassador to France is Dead

Nigeria’s Ambassador to France, Kayode Laro is dead, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced. The Ministry in a statement on Saturday signed by its spokesperson. Mrs. Francisca Omayuli said Ambassador Kayode Laro died last Friday in Paris, France, after a protracted…

Borders With Niger Remain Closed- NIS

Borders With Niger Remain Closed- NIS

Various Nigeria’s borders with Republic of Niger remain close, the spokesman of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Dr Aridegbe Adedotun has said. He said the Acting Controller General of Immigration, Caroline Adepoju has ensured that all official border points with the troubled…

KACRAN Calls to Review Stand on Military Action in Niger

KACRAN Calls to Review Stand on Military Action in Niger

Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN) has called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to review its stand of deploying military on Niger to compel a return to democratic order The group in a statement on Thursday…

UK Appoints New Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos

UK Appoints New Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos

The United Kingdom has appointed Mr. Jonny Baxter has it’s Deputy High Commissioner (DHC) in Lagos, Nigeria. A statement on Tuesday signed by the Senior Press & Public Affairs Officer | Comms Lead, Prosperity and Economic Development at the Foreign Commonwealth and…

Group Warns Against Military Invasion on Niger…Urges AU, ECOWAS to Commence Constructive Engagement with Nigerien Political Actors

Group Warns Against Military Invasion on Niger…Urges AU, ECOWAS to Commence Constructive Engagement with Nigerien Political Actors

Africans Rising for Unity, Justice, Peace and Dignity, a Pan-African movement of people and organisations working for unity, justice, peace and dignity in Africa has called on African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to commence constructive engagement…

USAID Gives Access to Clean Water to Over 73,000 people in Kebbi, Sokoto

USAID Gives Access to Clean Water to Over 73,000 people in Kebbi, Sokoto

More than 73,000 people in Kebbi and Sokoto States gained access to improved water supply following the construction of 19 new solar-powered boreholes and the rehabilitation of 27 non-functional hand pump boreholes, courtesy of support from the United States Agency for International…

NGO Launches Draft Bill on Proposed Health Development Bank of Nigeria… Says Sugar, Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Tax Capable of Yielding $4.8 bn Annually to Finance Nation’s Health Sector

NGO Launches Draft Bill on Proposed Health Development Bank of Nigeria… Says Sugar, Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Tax Capable of Yielding $4.8 bn Annually to Finance Nation’s Health Sector

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has put forward a proposal for the establishment of a Health Development Bank in a move towards strengthening Nigeria’s healthcare system. The announcement was made by the Lead Director of CSJ, Eze Onyekpere, during a workshop…

ECOWAS Parliament Activities Should Hold Outside Nation’s Capital for Regional Integration, Inclusion -MP

ECOWAS Parliament Activities Should Hold Outside Nation’s Capital for Regional Integration, Inclusion -MP

Leader of the Ghanaian delegation to the ECOWAS Parliament, Hon. Alexander Afenyo-Markin has advocated for the hosting of the activities of the regional body parliament outside the national capitals of members state. Afenyo-Markin, while explaining the modalities behind the decision to hold…

Niger Coup: EU Insists Coup Plotters Would Never Be Recognized… To Join ECOWAS in Imposition of Severe Sanctions

Niger Coup: EU Insists Coup Plotters Would Never Be Recognized… To Join ECOWAS in Imposition of Severe Sanctions

The European Union (EU) has called on the coup plotters in Niger to vacant office and return government to democratically elected representatives, insisting that the government they formed would never be recognized. The EU also announced its readiness to join the Economic…

ECOWAS Parliament says regional security operations must be strengthened to prevent coups

ECOWAS Parliament says regional security operations must be strengthened to prevent coups

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has called for collaboration between ECOWAS Commission and the African Union (AU) in order to strengthen collective regional security operations within West Africa that would ward off the constant threat of coup d’etat…

EU Threatens Sanction on Niger over Military Coup

EU Threatens Sanction on Niger over Military Coup

The European Union (EU) has condemned in the strongest terms the coup in Nigér, insisting that the events in the West African country in recent days constitute a serious attack on stability and democracy. It also warned that that any abuse of…