NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ON DEMOCRACY DAY, JUNE 12TH 2020 Fellow Nigerians, The 2020 celebration of Democracy Day marks 21 years of uninterrupted civil administration in our dear country. This day provides us an opportunity to reflect on our journey as a nation, our achievements and struggles. It is a day to honour our founding fathers who toiled to establish our republic and every Nigerian who has worked tirelessly to sustain it. We are...
Egypt will allow foreign tourists and flights to return to some of its resorts beginning from July, as the country struggles to contain the economic fallout from an outbreak of the new coronavirus. The country’s vital tourism and aviation sectors have borne the economic impact of the virus. Tourist and air traffic will resume to the coastal cities “least affected by the virus, beginning July 1,” Information Minister Osama Heikal said on Thursday in televised...
Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IE) has announced that the prices of meters sold to customers under the Meter Asset Provider (MAP)scheme has been reviewed upward effective June. 1. The DisCo, in a notice on its Twitter account on Thursday, said the review was in compliance with the directive of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). It said the review was to reflect the recent changes in Foreign Exchange rate by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The DisCo...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said on Thursday that it would support 70,000 maize farmers under its Anchor Borrowers Programme, during the 2020 wet farming season. Mr Nuhu Muazu, Head Development Finance Office, CBN, disclosed this in Bwari, Abuja, at the launching of farm inputs distribution to maize farmers for the 2020 wet season. Muazu said that the programme was designed to boost food production and guarantee food security in the country. While urging...
The two chambers of the National Assembly on Thursday, raised the N10.509 trillion budget proposed by the executive as revised budget for 2020 fiscal year by N301billion, passing N10.810 trillion as aggregate expenditure for the 2020 revised budget. The N301 billion added to the earlier proposal made by the executive arose from increases made on Capital expenditure proposal, which was raised from N2.230 trillion to N2.488 trillion, recurrent expenditure jerked up from the earlier proposed...
TERVUREN, Belgium — When it comes to ruthless colonialism and racism, few historical figures are more notorious than Leopold II, the Belgian king who held Congo as his personal property and may have been responsible for the deaths of millions of Congolese more than a century ago. Yet across Belgium, the monarch’s name is still found on streets and tunnels. Cities are dotted with his statues and busts, even as evidence of his misdeeds has...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Collins Khosa was killed by law enforcement officers in a poor township in Johannesburg over a cup of beer left in his yard. The 40-year-old black man was choked, slammed against a wall, beaten, kicked and hit with the butt of a rifle by the soldiers as police watched, his family says. Two months later, South Africans staged a march against police brutality. But it was mostly about the killing...
For much of its seven-year existence, the Black Lives Matter movement has been seen by many Americans as a divisive, even radical force. Its very name enraged its foes, who countered with the slogans “Blue Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter.” Times have changed — dramatically so — as evidenced during the wave of protests sparked by George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. Black Lives Matter has gone mainstream — and black...
The Federal Government has raised alarm over rising cases of COVID-19 with spike in the number of confirmed cases, where number of recorded cases jumped to 663 on Tuesday. Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, said this at the daily news conference on Thursday in Abuja According to him, Nigeria witnessed a spike in number of confirmed cases when the number of recorded cases jumped to 663 on June...
The Federal Government says the civil aviation regulator, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) will determine the resumption of domestic flights in the country based on their preparedness. Dr Sani Aliyu, National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, said this at the daily news conference on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the government had in March, shut the nation’s airports and airspaces as part of efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Also, Airports’...
