•Bags of cement In a bid to stem the rising cost of cement and other building materials and enhance the delivery of affordable housing in Nigeria, the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa has called for a meeting with manufacturers of Cement and other building materials in the country. The move is aimed […]
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, says Nigeria cannot continue to subsidise electricity, adding that the nation must begin to move towards a cost-effective tariff model, as the country is currently indebted to the tune of 1.3 trillion naira to generating companies (GenCos) and 1.3 billion dollars owed gas companies. Adelabu who addressed...
•President Nana Akufo-Addo Ghana’s president removed his finance minister in a sweeping reshuffle today ahead of December elections where an economic crisis looks set to take centre stage. Ken Ofori-Atta will be replaced by lawmaker Mohammed Amin Adam, according to a presidency statement. The long-serving finance minister, in office since 2017...
•Prince Johnson Liberia’s new defence minister yesterday resigned from his post just 10 days after being appointed, following a protest by soldiers’ wives, the presidency said. The resignation marks the first political crisis facing Liberia’s new president Joseph Boakai since his inauguration at the end of January, reports AFP. Boakai “has rec...
•Equatorial Guinea’s Jose Machin fights for the ball with Nigeria’s Alex Iwobi during the AFCON final match The Minister of Sports John Enoh is rallying Nigerian star Alex Iwobi after the player was subjected to cyberbullying in the wake of the country’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) loss. Nigeria slumped to Ivory Coast in the [&he...
•Estonian PM Kaja Kallas Russia has declared Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as “wanted” on criminal charges today in an unprecedented step against its Baltic neighbours. It was not immediately clear why Kallas, who has led Estonia since 2021, was listed as “wanted”, reports AFP. Relations between Moscow and EU member Estonia, which is hom...
•Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohaneye Minister of Women Affairs Uju Kennedy-Ohaneye has joined the manhunt and announced N2 million bounty on an Anambra based lawyer, Adachukwu Cukelu-Okafor, now on a run, who allegedly used broken bottle, knife and electric iron to “brutalise” the child said to be her niece. In a viral video, the [&...
•President Cyril Ramaphosa The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), welcomes the final decision taken by the South African Minister of Agriculture Ms Thoko Didiza, in terms of section 19 of the Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Act of 1997, to uphold the October 2021 decision of the Executive Council (EC) that the risk assessment framewor...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is investigating the controversial Nigeria Air deal sealed by the federal government during the tenure of ex-Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika. “The EFCC is investigating that deal,” the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, revealed on Channels Television last night . H...
•Kate Osamor A British-Nigerian minister, MP Kate Osamor, has been suspended by the United Kingdom’s Labour Party after she accused Israel of genocide on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day. Osamor, however, has apologised for “any offence caused” over the message distributed to local party members on Friday. BBC reported that the chief whip sus...