Seye Joseph As the nation needs to build capacity to diversify from a crude-oil dependent state and the world continues to explore new ways of scientific literacy with new way of bridging the divide between science and society, Rouleaux Foundation…
Concerned about the restrictive nature of the NGO Regulatory Agency Bill, 123 nonprofit leaders on Tuesday 12 September struck back against the proposed Bill arguing that it is not ‘’fit for purpose’’ and should be ‘’killed”. Through a declaration issued…
Africa’s largest cement company, Dangote Cement Plc has confirmed that it has indicated interest in acquiring the entire share capital of PPC Limited-a South African leading cement firm. In a statement signed by Dangote Cement’s company secretary, Mahmud Kazaure on…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will continue to explore further avenues to ensure that interest rates are supportive of domestic production needs. These were the assurances of the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, in his opening remark at the 24th…
The Federal Government is pleased with Nigeria’s encouraging Gross Domestic Product (GDP), saying its policies are working and the economy is on the right track. The council thereby commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic policies. This follows a meeting of the…
Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, said President Muhammadu Buhari will lead the Nigerian delegation to the 72nd UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Onyeama made this known in Abuja Tuesday while briefing newsmen on the conference scheduled to…
Nigeria’s vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday in Ondo State declared that the country’s oil will no longer be profitable in no distant future. The vice president spoke during the Second National Council on Niger Delta, NCND, meeting held in…
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is leaving the company to start his own non-profit, three years after Facebook acquired the company. Acton, who started at Facebook when WhatsApp was acquired for $19 billion in 2014, is the lesser-known of WhatsApp’s two…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has inaugurated eight committees charged with returning the refineries to their nameplate capacities by the year 2019. The Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, while inaugurating the committees on Tuesday, charged them…
Zimbabwe produced enough food to feed its people for the first time since adopting a controversial policy to strip land from white farmers, President Robert Mugabe told parliament on Tuesday. From the year 2000, hundreds of white farmers were evicted from their…
