Goddy Ikeh
The International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos, Nigeria has called on the media and relevant stakeholders to work in greater partnership to create a safe and enabling environment for journalists to operate.
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Nigerian Governments to take decisive action to ensure the safety of journalists in Nigeria, including by complying with the February 16, 2024 judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja directing it to take measures to prevent attacks on journalists and other media practitioners and to investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators of attacks against journalists.
The Financial Services Industry led the activity chart this week on the floor of the Nigerian Exchange with 1.821 billion shares valued at N28.958 billion traded in 20,173 deals.
The Nigerian Government has signed an agreement with the European Union and the German Government to provide support worth £17.9m to fund Nigeria’s off-grid electricity project.
Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Mr. Bosun Tijani, has announced that the Nigerian Government has secured a grant of N2.8 billion from Google to boost artificial intelligence talent development across Nigeria and close the skill gaps and position the country at the forefront of AI innovation in Africa.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPCL) – the country’s state-owned energy firm – has joined the African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energy conference as a Diamond Sponsor. NNPC Ltd.’s return to the conference – which convenes from November 4-8 in Cape Town – affirms its commitment to attracting newfound investment into Nigeria’s hydrocarbon market, as the country targets $10 billion in oil and gas expenditure within the next 12-18 months.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency, is urgently appealing for $10.6 million to address the most pressing needs of 228,000 forcibly displaced people and their host communities across West and Central Africa, where devastating climate-induced torrential rains and floods have wreaked havoc and impacted over 5.1 million people.
Bakary Gamalo Bamba, director of the Guinean bimonthly newspaper Le Baobab, has been detained since October 20, 2024, on charges of invasion of privacy for recording a judge.
The West Africa Energy Cooperation Summit (WA-ECS) is set to tackle project development bottlenecks across the ECOWAS region and drive sustainable energy development across West Africa from 3-5 December 2024, in Lomé,Togo.
The price of OPEC basket of 12 crudes stood at $71.27 a barrel on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, compared with $70.79 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.