Goddy Ikeh
The public prosecutor on August 8 called for a heavy sentence against the president of the opposition party Les Transformateurs, who is on trial for charges linked to deadly violence in the country’s south.
Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo) says over 90 per cent of the contract value in its operations will be executed by Nigerian companies, as part of efforts to build a more sustainable energy future in Nigeria.
Nigerian entrepreneur and Managing Director of Aquarian Consult, Mrs Aisha Maina, has secured a $40m investment backed by the African Export-Import Bank to develop a deep-water port in St Kitts as part of efforts to create a direct trade corridor between Africa and the Caribbean.
The National Food Security Office (ONASA) launched on August 7 a subsidized sale of foodstuffs in the 9th district of N’Djamena, aimed at supporting vulnerable communities
As part of efforts to modernize public administration, the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES), through the Support Project for Parliament and Electoral Processes (PAPPE), is training staff from several of Chad’s key institutions in strategic planning and digital archiving.
Benin has raised 33 billion CFA francs on the West African regional financial market through a short-term bond issuance maturing on November 6, 2025, as part of its Treasury’s short-term financing strategy.
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources in charge of Oil, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, says that the Federal Government of Nigeria is taking concrete steps to build a resilient local energy supply chain to cushion Nigeria against global disruptions that have increasingly threatened the stability of cross-border energy operations.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that a sum of N88bn was spent by the Nigerian Government on the repair and restoration of power transmission facilities vandalised across the country from 2021 to date.
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) says that the 220 open oil blocks in various onshore and offshore basins across the country will be handed to concessionaires after periodic bid rounds and conditions are met.
The Ghanaian Government has set up a task force to investigate the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of two ministers and six other public officials on Wednesday.