Politics

Africa Leadership Strategy and Transparency Development Initiative (ALSTDI) have urged the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to extend its ongoing probe of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to include their level of compliance to the Treasury Single Account (TSA).  The body said this in a statement signed …

By GLADYS JOHNSON Dr Maikanti Baru, The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has called for more integration among countries within the West African sub-region towards providing lasting solutions to the region’s numerous energy challenges. Dr. Baru made the call recently a meeting with the United …

   Early signs suggest that the US-China rivalry will find its way to the African continent in 2019. While the US is multiplying warnings about the perils of Chinese debt-fuelled spending for economic stability, China will continue to broaden its engagement across the continent, with particular focus on East Africa. …

  The Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA) the leading human rights organization working to realize human rights in Cameroon,  strongly condemns the decision by the government of President Paul Biya through its Regional Delegate of Transport in the Northwest Region, to issue a travel restriction among …

    Hon Irene Muloni, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, in the Republic of Uganda will lead a delegation of private and public-sector players from Uganda’s oil and gas sector to the Africa Oil Week 2018 which will be held in November, 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. Hon Muloni said, …

By: Gladys Johnson, Courtney Howard and Patricia Sanchez Ishola Balogun, businessman and media personality has reveal that the 2019 upcoming election in Nigeria might be the most challenging election in the history of the country. Speaking to a group of journalists at his television studio in Houston, Texas, United States …

The AfroChampions Initiative has just taken a new step with the official creation of the AfroChampions Club, a new platform to mobilise African multinationals to accelerate the economic integration of the continent. At the invitation of Mr. Aliko Dangote, Founder and CEO of the Dangote Group and President of the Club, key business …

The Member representing Uvwie/Okpe/Sapele Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Hon Evelyn Oboro has said that the Bill establishing the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Delta State and which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari recently, was her brain child. Hon Oboro who played host …

  No Government Presence 47 Years After Oil, Gas Exploration On Our Land, Community Cries Out By GLADYS JOHNSON The people of Peretorugbene Federated Communities in Ekeremor Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, have protested what they described as federal government neglect 47 years after Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC began …

    The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) has selected GE Healthcare a leading global provider of transformational medical technologies and services, as a long-term partner to revitalize healthcare infrastructure in the Northern States, with the signing of a one-of-a-kind strategic partnership agreement this week in Abuja Under the framework …