A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has hit the city of Christchurch in New Zealand on Sunday, followed by aftershocks in a region still recovering from a deadly...
JOHANNESBURG — Weakened by scandal and policy missteps, South Africa’s president, Jacob G. Zuma, pledged in a state of the nation address on Thursday to revive...
The Efficiency Unit of the Federal Ministry of Finance on Wednesday said the government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies spent a total of N825bn on travels, maintenance,...
The Federal Government aims to hand over the $4.5bn Ajaokuta steel complex to private operators this year as part of a plan to kick-start its industrial...
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Land Transport, Gbenga Ashafa, has faulted the N4.5bn earmarked for the Nigerian railway in the 2016 budget, describing it as grossly...
The Federal Government is planning to reduce the amount of borrowing needed to fund the 2016 budget from funds mopped up from government agencies through the...
The organised labour on Monday paralysed business activities of the electricity distribution firms as it led a nationwide protest against the over 45 per cent increase...
The People’s Republic of China is planning to invest at least $60bn in Nigeria economy. Chargé d’Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria, Mr. Qin Jian,...
Nigeria and five other African countries are to benefit from the collaboration between the African Union Commission and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation aimed...
Nigeria’s government is in talks for concessionary loans worth $3.5 billion from the World Bank and African Development Bank to help finance a planned record budget...
