Goddy Ikeh
Nigeria’s Ministry of Power has announced that the country recorded a three-year high of 5,313 megawatts on Monday, September 2, 2024.
The Nigerian Government has called for a more robust partnership with the United Nations to achieve sustainable agricultural development and food security.
The Organised Labour and other stakeholders have raised an alarm over the hike in the price of petrol in Nigeria on Tuesday.
Senegal’s former ruling coalition, Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY), says it is ready to wage a final battle against the new Senegalese government before it and the National Assembly is dissolved. A motion of censure has been announced against the government of Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko.
The price of OPEC basket of 12 crudes stood at $77.03 a barrel on Monday, September 2, 2024, compared with $78.75 the previous Friday, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.
The funding of $151 million for the climate resilience programme in the Horn of Africa was approved at the 39th meeting of the Green Fund’s Board of Directors. It comprises a grant of $90.7 million and a loan of $60.3 million.
Guinea’s transitional government announced on Monday, September 2, the temporary suspension of the granting of licences to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and associative movements for a period of four months.
Nigeria’s Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye and the President of ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, on Tuesday in Abuja discussed new strategies to ensure prudent use of funds donated by ECOWAS to Nigeria for the treatment and rehabilitation of women suffering from obstetric fistula.
Mr. Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Refinery on Tuesday in Lagos presented the first sample of petrol produced at the refinery to Nigerian consumers.
The Nigeria Police has declared a British citizen Andrew Wynne and his local accomplice Lucky Ehis Obiyan wanted for plotting the regime change in Nigeria.