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WAGPCo pledges duct integrity for growing West African gas market
Sopuruchi Onwuka The West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAGPCo) Limited has declared commitment to ensure that the transportation infrastructure connecting natural gas from producers to the regional market remains in sound condition. The company is the transporter of processed natural…
African leaders demand ceasfire in DR Congo conflict
Member countries of the East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) convened a brief joint summit in Dar es Salaam on February 8 as the conflict in eastern Congo escalated. The leaders asked defense chiefs to come…
More incidents engulf American airspace
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Last year earned a prominent space in history for its high rate of aviation incidents, with the last three months of 2024 marking a spread of remarkable accidents that cane with high human tolls. However,…
NIES 2025 to host crisis management masterclass
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Academy, in collaboration with the Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES), is set to sponsor a crisis management masterclass for energy industry professionals and managers on the sidelines of the highly anticipated Nigeria International Energy…
NCDMB flaunts milestones to Army personnel
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Thursday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, played host to a visiting team of ranking military officers from the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC), Abuja, who are in the state on…
Fleeing inmates rape over 165 women in Congo prison break
25,000 survivors of sexual violence treated across the DRC At least 165 women were raped by male inmates after a mass breakout from a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said in a report. According to…
WAPCo feeds pig into line to start regional conduit maintenance
Sopuruchi Onwuka The West African Pipeline Company (WAPCo) Limited, on Friday, launched off its scheduled offshore line maintenance programme in a major process that will guarantee the integrity of systems that channel natural gas from Nigeria and Ghana to the…
Downloading DeepSeek in US to attract 20 years in prison, $100M fine
A newly introduced bill from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) is drawing attention for its unprecedented severity in restricting Chinese artificial intelligence (AI), specifically targeting technologies like DeepSeek. The bill, which Hawley filed last week, intends to “prohibit United States persons…
Trump signs order withdrawing US from UN bodies
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing Washington from a number of United Nations bodies, including its Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and setting up a broader review of US funding for the multilateral organization. The executive…
Trump eyes US ‘ownership’ of post war Gaza
President Donald Trump of the United States has said that Palestinians could “permanently” be resettled from Gaza after the prevailing war between Israel and Hamas. He also said that Washington had not taken a position on recognizing Israeli sovereignty over…
