Ukraine’s interior minister and a toddler were among at least 14 people killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed into and set fire to a nursery in a Kyiv suburb. Separately, Ukraine said its soldiers again thwarted Russian advances on the frontline city of Bakhmut in the east, hundreds of kilometres (miles) distant, where both Read More…
Year: 2023
The Role of Libraries in realising SDG 4 – Inclusive, Equitable and Quality Education: The West African Perspective
Libraries exist within the formal and informal sectors of the learning ecosystem. They are very important to learning in schools and in the different communities where they live all over Africa. They are critical for achieving an inclusive, equitable, and quality education where no one is left behind including those who are in employment and Read More…
Nigerian finance minister: debt trajectory sustainable, no 2023 bond sale
The path that Nigeria’s debt is headed down is manageable. The country’s Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, said on Wednesday that the government had no plans to borrow money from foreign capital markets and that it planned to make major changes to its large debt service-to-revenue ratio throughout the year. The government of Nigeria spent Read More…
My contract with the people of Niger State – Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya
Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya is running for governor of Niger State for the All-Progressives’ Grand Alliance (APGA). She wants things to change. She is an award-winning innovator, an ideation specialist, a serial social entrepreneur, a lawyer, an author, a publisher, and a mentor, and most importantly Khadijah is a mother, who calls herself, the Womb, and a Read More…
Nigerian Youths, Stand Up To Be Counted!
“There is always enough light for one who wishes to see.” -Hazrat Imam Ali (AS) The forthcoming presidential elections will be determined, to a large extent, by the votes of the youth. There has been so much talk about how each succeeding generation in the last 62 years has betrayed the Nigerian project and bequeathed Read More…
Lagos State government feeds on the agbero system – Oladeji, YPP Lagos Central Senatorial District
Blessing Oladeji, CEO, Octave Analytics in response to government corruption is vying for the Lagos Central Senatorial seat on the platform of the Young Progressives Party, YPP. He spoke to LM’s Nkanu Egbe recently. I think I went online and I tried to understand who you are; you happen to be in the tech environment, Read More…
Naira redesigned to fight terror – CBN boss
The Central Bank of Nigeria says that its most recent project, redesigning the naira, will help the country’s many security problems, which range from terrorism to kidnapping, get better. Shamsudeen Imam, Senior Manager, Currency Operations Department, CBN, stated at a programme on Tuesday at the Gombe International Market that circumstances where criminals demanded ransom would Read More…
Naira rises 0.04% at Investors/Exporters window
Tuesday’s Investors’ and Exporters’ window naira-dollar rate was 461.50. The value rose 0.04 per cent from Monday’s 461.67. Tuesday’s open indicative rate was N460.25/$. Before settling at N461.50, the day’s highest exchange rate was N462. During the day’s trade, the naira fell to 440 per dollar. Tuesday’s Investors’ and Exporters’ window trades totalled N117.63 million.
NGX indexes decline by 0.48%
The performance indexes fell by 0.48 per cent on Tuesday as the equity market reversed the previous day’s upward trend. From N28.155 trillion traded the day before to N28.021 trillion at closure, the market capitalization decreased by N134 billion, or 0.48 per cent. The All-Share Index (ASI) also decreased by 246.48 points, or 0.48 per Read More…
Nigeria shortlists 139 gas flaring enterprises
The Chief Executive of Nigeria’s petroleum regulator, the Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), announced in a statement that 139 companies have been shortlisted for the next phase of the nation’s commercialisation programme for gas flaring as part of efforts to minimise carbon emissions. The commercialisation of gas burned from Nigeria’s oil fields is planned, Read More…