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Africa deserves right to use natural gas reserves – AfDB chief
President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has strongly canvassed for waivers that would allow African countries to continue exploitation of hydrocarbon resources in fighting energy poverty and riving economic development. Adesina who spoke to journalists at the…
Heroic Idun: The fireworks over Akpo oil lift
Sopuruchi Onwuka After months of hunting, catching and detaining the ocean going crude oil carrier, MT Heroic Idun, swings in legal battle has started in Nigeria while diplomatic dispute is brewing in India where lawmakers are coming under pressure to…
Female capacity offers opportunity for accelerated economic growth __WIEN
The Nigerian economy holds potential to accelerate growth and development by 2025 if women are provided the opportunity to play exactly the same role as men in corporate leadership and economic management in the country. The assertion forms one of…
NLNG N18.4b award: When the Senate kills the environment
Sopuruchi Onwuka The recent decision to impose N18.4 billion penal measure against the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited over pipeline right of way dispute stokes existing concerns among petroleum industry investors about the threat of political interference in the…
Israel Adesanya suffers third loss for UFC title
Years ago, when mixed martial arts was still illegal and Dana White was traveling the country to sell his vision of a different fighting organization, he told anyone who would listen the same thing: The sport is so great, White…
Energy transition is creating huge opportunities in Nigeria, Seplat CEO
Energy transition creates huge opportunities in Nigeria as it supports economic and social development, job creation, improved health and education, the Chief Executive Officer, Seplat Energy Plc, Mr. Roger Brown has said. Mr. Brown said this during a panel session…
How the big thieves boozed and dozed off
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports A herd of elephants in India searched out and devoured a few barrels at local wine fermenting cluster, they then went light and into deep slumber that triggered alarms to the local preservation office. The…
Russia execute military deserter with sledgehammer
Government of Russia weekend killed one of its fighters in the war with Ukraine by smashing his head with a sledge hammer, marking one of the cruelest executions in modern history. Evgeniy Nuzhin who is one of the prisoners released…
America’s space plane completes 908-day orbital mission
The U.S. Space Force’s Boeing-built X-37B space plane weekend completed yet another record-setting mission, landing like an airplane at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida 908 days after it was launched. This was the sixth mission in the hush-hush X-37B…
African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change
Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so, leaders and negotiators from the continent said at the U.N. climate…
