FG inaugurates Africa’s first global investment office

 

                                        Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga

The Federal Government on Tuesday inaugurated the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation’s first global technology and investment promotion office in Nigeria.

National Assembly: The new order that must set in

 

                                                         Japheth Omojuwa

The All Progressives Congress promised Nigerians change; now the party has power, it must show us that change in truth and in deed. One place where that change will be mostly needed is the National Assembly. It is supposed to be a public National Assembly but on matters of finances and spending, it is largely private. From a budgetary allocation of just about N50bn during the Obasanjo presidential years, the National Assembly now spends some N150bn per year. Apart from this unjustified budget, no one knows exactly how this money is spent.

Who will stop African deaths on European doorstep?

 

                                                                    Uche Igwe

Frequent deaths of illegal travellers along other dangerous routes including the Mediterranean Sea are disturbing and horrifying. But they do not make much news to many. What could make news is the heightened frequency of the deaths probably due to more illegal travellers, some fleeing from deepening instability in parts of North and West Africa.

Dangote to list on London Exchange next year

 

                                                            Alhaji Aliko Dangote

Africa’s richest man and President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has said his company will be ready to list on the London Stock Exchange by the end of 2016.

Dangote, in a video interview with Bloomberg published on Tuesday, said, “I think we will list in London. What we are trying to do now, between now and maybe the next six to 10 months is actually trying to address all the governance issues.

Indonesia executes four Nigerians, others for drug offences

 

Indonesian authorities on Tuesday executed four Nigerians and four others for drug-related offences despite pleas by the United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International and the Federal Government.

Military rescues 293 girls, women from Sambisa Forest

 

                                 Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade

The Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, has confirmed that the troops of the Nigerian Army rescued 200 girls and 93 women during a raid on Sambisa Forest on Tuesday.
When the news of the rescue was broken on the tweeter handle of the military on Tuesday, many Nigerians had gone online to speculate that the freed ladies included the Chibok schoolgirls.

I never apologised to Bode George – Tinubu

 

                                                         Bola Ahamed Tinubu

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has denied apologising to the leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Chief Bode George.