By Amos Aar AN American based firm, Afri Decarbonization Company Ltd, is to establish a 100,000-hectare bamboo plantation in Benue State to serve as nursery bed for several industries that will spring up from it in the state. A statement by Chief Press Secretary to Benue State Deputy Governor, Mr Ogaba Ede, indicates that Head of Sustainable TransEnvironment International Foundation, Mr John Ogbodo, made the development known Thursday at Government House, Makurdi when he led Ms Diana Doheny, Advisory board member, Afri Decarbonization Company Ltd, and her team on a courtesy call on Governor Samuel Ortom. Mr Ogbodo disclosed that Afri Decarbonization Company Ltd…
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THE European Union (EU) has engaged Teniola Akpata, an artiste popularly known as Teni, and Eniola Adeoluwa, brand influencer, popularly known as Eni, as ambassadors of a campaign to promote its partnership with Africa. The EU ambassador to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ms Samuela Isopi, said this at a press conference on Thursday in Lagos. She said the campaign tagged, ‘We See Africa,’ would strengthen EU’s long-standing partnership with Africa to transform lives and inspire hope across the continent. She said the campaign would run simultaneously in Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and build…
SOME financial experts have commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for its decision to redesign the naira, saying that it would have positive effect on the economy. The experts spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday. They spoke against the backdrop of announcement by the CBN that new designs of the N200, N500 and N1,000 denominations would be produced and circulated on Dec. 15. According to Prof. Umhe Uwaleke, a financial economist and professor of capital market at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, the decision will be positive for the economy…
A COURT on Thursday handed a life sentence to a woman accused of drowning her husband in 2019 for a hefty life insurance pay-out. Her accomplice and boyfriend was handed a 30-year prison sentence. The Incheon District Court delivered the sentences to Lee Eun-hae, 31 and her extramarital lover, Cho Hyun-soo, 30, with an order for both to wear an electric tracking device for 20 years after serving the terms. The two were indicted for allegedly prodding the woman’s then 39-year-old husband to jump into a deep valley river in Gapyeong, 60 kilometres east of Seoul, in June 2019, even…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says there is no going back on transmission of results to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) in real-time on Election Day. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed at the third quarterly meeting with political parties for the year 2022 held in Abuja on Wednesday, Newsdiaryonline reports. Yakubu said that there have been several developments, notable among which are the Ekiti and Osun State Governorship elections, the conduct of primaries by political parties for the 2023 General Election, the publication of the final list of candidates sponsored by political parties for the election and…
THE Kano State Government on Thursday re-arraigned a Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, 47, before a Kano High Court for alleged murder of his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22. Frank, who lives at Railway Quarters Kano is charged with culpable homicide. The court had on Oct.4, ordered the Kano Govt to provide an interpreter for the defendant. When the case came up for re-arraignment, the Prosecutor, who is also the Attorney General of Kano State, Musa Abdullahi-Lawan, presented Mr Guo Cumru, from the Chinese Embassy to interpret English to Chinese Language to the defendant. He told the court that the defendant…
THE Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has stated that it expects the federal government to pay salary arrears for the four months their industrial action lasted. Comrade Peters Adeyemi, General Secretary of NASU, said this while addressing a news conference at the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Wednesday in Abuja. Adeyemi said that NASU expects the federal government to make arrangements for payment of the salary arrears. According to NASU, since all parties within the university system have suspended their industrial actions, it behoves on government to start reviewing the hard stance it took…
By Amos Aar PENSIONERS in Benue State have cried out, lamenting the failure of Governor Samuel Ortom in paying 38 months arrears for state pensioners and 74 months arrears for local government pensioners. The pensioners blame the Benue State House of Assembly’s failure to checkmate the excesses of Governor Ortom. Chairman, Aggrieved and Concerned Pensioners, Comrade Alex Akosu, in a telephone interview with National Record after a meeting of the pensioners held in Makurdi on Wednesday said if the Assembly had performed its oversight function, Governor Ortom would not have owed them 38 months and 74 months respectively. Comrade…
NIGERIA’s bid to claim compensation from a British subsidiary of mining and trading group Glencore (GLEN.L) over bribes paid to officials at Nigeria’s state oil company was denied by a London court on Wednesday. Lawyers representing the country told London’s Southwark Crown Court that Nigerian officials should be permitted to address the court on November 2 and 3 when Glencore Energy is to be sentenced having pleaded guilty to seven counts of bribery in connection with oil operations in five African countries including Nigeria. But Judge Peter Fraser ruled that Nigeria does not have the right to be heard, as…
MORE than half a million healthcare workers and teachers in Britain will be given a vote on strike action over pay, unions said on Thursday, adding to the challenges facing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he tries to get to grips with an economic crisis. With inflation hitting more than 10%, discontent among the labour force has multiplied as wage increases fall behind the rising price of food and fuel. From bin men to barristers, workers representing a broad range of sectors across the country have walked out in protest in recent months. Those problems could be about to reach…