'Nigeria, Others Need $15.7bn To Upgrade Refineries'       African countries will need about $15.7 billion to upgrade existing 36 refineries on the continent to produce petroleum products that will conform with a planned level of sulphur content. African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARDA) disclosed that the $15.7...

March Domestic Demand Recorded Upsurge - IATA         The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that passenger traffic rose in March 2021 compared with February 2021. However, total demand for air travel in March 2021 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) was down 67.2 per...

A Country That Is Bleeding, by Eric Teniola       On April 22 this year, the Minister of Defense, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (71) (rtd) was on the spot. He told State House correspondents that “Nigeria is bleeding”. During the media chat, he informed us all...

WTO: European Parliament Backs Okonjo-Iweala       The European Parliament (EP) has endorsed Nigeria’s candidate for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The parliament said it screened the two remaining candidates in the WTO DG race, Okonjo-Iweala and Ms. Yoo...

WTO: Okonjo-Iweala on the cusps of history Who becomes the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in a matter of weeks? It will surely be either Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee. Members of WTO have since picked the two celebrated women...

Data Protection: Nigeria's Success Story By Isiaku Ahmed       In 2018, the European Union (EU) began the implementation of the General Data Protection Rule (GDPR), which regulates the processing of data by an individual, a company or organization relating to individuals in the EU. The following year,...