UN climate summit lands pledges to slash emissions from cars, planes, ships
Nov 10, 2021 Automakers, airlines and governments unveiled a raft of pledges at the U.N. climate summit on Wednesday to slash greenhouse gas emissions from global transport, albeit with some…
Senate Approves Buhari’s $16bn, €1bn External Borrowing Request
Nov. 10, 2021 The Senate on Wednesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s External Borrowing (Rolling Plan) request in the sum of $16,230,077,718, and €1,020,000,000. Also approved by the upper chamber was…
Amid Record Sovereign Debt, Massive Gaps in Debt-Tracking Systems – World Bank
Nov. 10, 2021 At a time when sovereign debt in the poorest countries has surged to dangerously high levels, global and country-by-country systems for tracking it are proving to be…
3 clerics re-arraigned for alleged rape, abuse of corpses
Nov. 10, 2021 Three clerics were on Wednesday re-arraigned in an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court by the Lagos State Government on an eight-count charge of rape and…
COVID-19: Afreximbank, ITFC sign $250m finance facility for vaccines procurement, economic recovery
Nov. 10, 2021 The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), have signed a 250 million dollar facility to provide funds for the bank to…
U.N. climate talks draft asks for higher emissions pledges by 2022
Nov. 10, 2021 The British hosts of the COP26 U.N. climate conference in Glasgow have proposed that countries raise their ambitions to slash greenhouse gas emissions by next year in…
Aiteo reports “extremely high order” oil spill from well in Bayelsa
Nov 10, 2021 Nigeria’s Aiteo Eastern E&P has reported an “extremely high order” oil spill from a jointly owned well in the Niger Delta and has had to abort immediate…
Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers staged a walkout before trial began – FG tells court
Nov. 10, 2021 The Federal Government told a Federal High Court, Abuia that a team of lawyers of leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on…
Passenger extortion: Arik Air staff suspended with immediate effect
Nov. 10, 2021 The management of Arik Air has suspended one of its staff caught by the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) asking for bribe at the domestic wing…
FG completes Lagos Airport Flyover repairs, to reopen bridge this month
Nov. 10, 2021 The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr Olukayode Popoola, on Wednesday said rehabilitation work on the damaged Lagos Airport Flyover has been completed and the bridge would…