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Breaking: For First Time Since 2014, Oil Price Tops $90 Per Barrel; Landing Cost now N282 Per Litre

The upturn in global crude oil prices has pushed the landing cost of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called petrol imported into Nigeria to over N282 per litre. The further rise in the landing cost of petrol means increased subsidy as the pump price...

Unpaid U$207M Loan: Uganda to Lose Entebbe Airport to China

The Ugandan government is on the verge of losing its only international airport to China for failing to repay a loan. The government has failed to reverse a loan agreement with the Chinese which had repayment conditions of attaching its only airport. Entebbe International Airport and...

Buhari Wants World Leaders to Ensure Objective Distribution of Covid-19 Vaccines

President Muhammadu Buhari has once again urged world leaders and global health institutions to follow a regime of enabling access to the COVID-19 vaccines, admonishing that sidelining countries in terms of reach will undermine the entire effort for safety. Delivering a keynote statement at the...

Buhari in Paris for State Visit, Peace Forum

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday afternoon arrived in Paris, French capital, for a one-day official visit as guest of President Emmanuel Macron at Palais de l'Élysée. The President will afterwards attend the three-day Paris Peace Forum (PPF), November 11-13, 2021. The President’s plane touched down at...

American Billionaire, Jeff Bezos, Endorses Buhari’s Climate Change Actions

American billionaire and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, on Monday in Glasgow, Scotland commended President Muhammadu Buhari's leadership role in restoring degraded lands in the country, describing the commitment to restore 4 million hectares as exemplary. Bezos joined President Buhari, French President Emmanuel Macron,...

COP 26: Africa Committed to Restoring over 100m Hectares of Degraded Landscape – Buhari

Africa’s ambition of restoring over 100million hectares of degraded landscape for productive agriculture is achievable, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday in Glasgow, Scotland. The President expressed the optimism at the Climate Change Summit, COP 26, side event on the Great Green Wall (GGW),...