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Nigeria and the Pakistani Navy have agreed to partner in their effort to end piracy and other maritime crimes on Nigerian territorial waters to improve ease of doing business in the country’s seaports. Both countries made the commitment when Pakistani ...

As the World Meningitis Day (WMD) held yesterday with the theme: Life After Meningitis, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) released fresh statistics about the contagious disease wherein 58 persons were killed and 760 others infected in 15 states. ...

Nigeria’s petroleum downstream sub-sector, especially refineries, pipelines and others may witness a major overhaul following ongoing talks between the Federal Government and the Saudi authorities in Riyadh. The Minister of Energy Industry and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi ...

Concerns have been raised over deaths of illegal migrants of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) in the Mediterranean Sea owing largely to the high unemployment rate among member-states. To tackle the problem, a Session of the ECOWAS ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have expressed the need to foster mixed population flows in West Africa to ensure the protection of refugees, asylum seekers and other persons ...

The African Union has endorsed the Buhari Unity Band, a not-for-profit initiative that articulates the president’s commitment to peace, unity and fight against corruption. In a letter presented to Dr. Abayomi Oyekoya, the body’s convener, in Abuja at the weekend, ...

Unless urgent and proactive rescue plans are employed, nine of every 10 African nations would be living in abject poverty, the World Bank has warned. Paradoxically, the same year is the global financial institution’s target for ending extreme poverty worldwide. ...

Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu has stressed the need for Japan and Nigeria to boost their diplomatic relations, especially in Science and Technology. Onu made the call when he received the Japanese Ambassador, Yukata Kikuta, at his office ...

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), Tony Okpanchi, yesterday told the World Bank that DBN disbursed N31 billion to 35,000 beneficiaries in the last two years. He said the facilities were given to the ...

The German Society for International Cooperation also known as Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) yesterday decried the unemployment rate in Nigeria. The agency said it would invest over £19.2 million (N9.03 billion) through its Skills Development for Youth Employment (SKYE) programme ...