The Financial Action Task Force and relevant provisions of the laws and regulations on money laundering and countering terrorism financing were designed to help identify the source, volume and movement of currency and other monetary instruments transported or transmitted into…
Sixty per cent of the proceeds realised from the Tuface charity concert would be channelled toward providing protection and empowerment of the Internally Displaced Persons in the North-East. Mr Jose-Antonio Canhandula, Country Representative, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR),…
German carmaker Bayerische Motoren Werke AG or in English, Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) that is manipulated emission treatment system in its vehicles. In a statement on Sunday, the carmaker rejected media reports that the systems did not work effectively and that…
The program will be run by GE Garage engineers and instructors to enhance the students’ current capabilities whilst helping them develop new skill sets GE the world’s Digital Industrial Company has announced a skill development partnership programme involving its GE…
President of the African Development Bank (AFDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, at the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan on Monday, said AFDB would invest $24 billion in Agriculture in Africa in the next…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has advised the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development to ensure that its current road map would not encounter challenges that faced previous road maps. The UNDP gave the advice in its “Nigeria Gap…
Nigeria’s House of Representatives is presently considering what perhaps qualifies as the most dangerous piece of legislation to come before the National Assembly since the return of civilian rule in 1999. It is the NGO Regulation Bill sponsored by the…
There are always at least two ways to read something, and that is definitely true of the latest report on hunger in Africa. The Global Hunger Index: Africa Report was released at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa earlier this…
The three-decade-old quest for an AIDS vaccine received a shot of hope Monday when developers announced that a prototype triggered the immune system in an early phase of human trials. Tested in 393 people in the United States, Rwanda, Uganda,…
“The Nigerian child is disadvantaged compared to global peers,” say Ezekwesili, Bobboyi,Kallon, others Speakers and a cross-section of participants at the 2017 Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series event in Abuja Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, Executive Secretary Universal Basic…
