Goddy Ikeh
The price of OPEC basket of 12 crudes stood at $78.31 a barrel on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, compared with $77.22 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.
The exposure of 81,885 ghost workers in Ghana followed a census of active personnel carried out at the request of the Finance Minister to facilitate the payment of salary arrears dating back to August 2024.
The Minister of Security of Burkina Faso Mahamadou Sana, has officially launched a platform dedicated to reporting cybercrimes.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has invested €38m in in Morocco’s Railway Transition project.
A record number of journalists were killed worldwide in 2024, figures published today by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) show. Israel is responsible for nearly 70 per cent of that total.
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and (CNL- NNPCL/CNL JV) has reiterated its commitment to the socio-economic development of communities neighbouring the areas of their operations and building mutually beneficial partnerships with the government and people of Delta State.
The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has released US$5 million from the Central Emergency Fund (CERF) for anticipatory action* for floods in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Mr. Heineken Lokpobiri, says that the Africa Energy Bank will commence operations in Nigeria in March 2025.
The President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Afreximbank, Prof Benedict Oramah, says that Nigeria received a cumulative disbursement of approximately $52 billion from the African Export-Import Bank, making it the largest beneficiary of the bank’s trade and development financing across Africa.
Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has signed the amended Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates.