Okonjo-Iweala is the first woman to be the finance minister and the foreign minister of the West African country with a GDP of $502 billion. But the start of the year has been difficult for Nigeria. The country voted in former general Muhammadu Buhari as president, ousting long-time President Goodluck Jonathan, with the hope he will help fight against the local terrorist group Boko Haram. The Harvard- and M.I.T.-trained Okonjo-Iweala spent 21 years as a development economist at the World Bank.
Koko Zaria is deputy to the Lagos NURTW chairman Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo.
Koko Zaria announced in an Instagram post during the week that his new establishment Zargarza Hotel would be opened on November 28.
However, a Nigerian man simply known as Kunle ‘Twix’ Oladipupo has expressed shock after deputy chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Lagos chapter Ganiu Oyedepo popularly known as Koko Zaria has launched his hotel.
Deporting a Nigerian man who has a criminal record but whose children live in Britain, was “disproportionate” and not “necessary in a democratic society”, the European court of human rrights has ruled.
Judges in Strasbourg found that the removal of Charles Unuane violated his right to family life as guaranteed by article 8 of the European convention on human rights.
Unuane, 57, whose appeal was supported by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, was awarded €5,000 (£4,447) . The court did not make an order for him to be returned to the United Kingdom.
Relatively few UK cases are reaching the ECHR at present but legal arguments over the scope of article 8 and the right to family life remain issues where the government and Strasbourg judges are at odds over legal interpretation.
The Singer has posted on her Instagram account asking for help to locate the little pure water seller. The little boy went viral on social media with his sales ability which stuns most social media users.
She wrote on her Instagram account.
WHO KNOWS THIS BOY?
There is a Scholarship for him.
Please DM.
Unknown gunmen have killed one Engineer Michael Ebirien- Agana at Agana community, in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Information gathered indicates that Ebirien- Agana, said to be a staff of the Local Govt Council, was ambushed along the Igbo-Etche road by the gunmen while on his way home between 8.30 and 9pm on Friday, November 20.
According to reports, the gunmen dragged him out of his car, shot him and drove off. He was rushed to the hospital by good Samaritans where he was confirmed dead by a doctor.
Malam Isa Ali Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy has lost his 13-year old daughter, Aishah Isa.
The Minister announced the passage of the Aisha on Monday evening on his Twitter handle.
He however did not indicate the cause of the death.
The Minister said a funeral prayer for the late Aisha will be performed on Tuesday at Annur Majeed, Wuse 2, immediately after Zuhr prayer.
There is uneasy calm in the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the 2023 election and plot to whittle down the influence of the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Daily Trust can report.
Though the 2023 election is still far off, the state APC is said to be worried by recent developments which showed some chieftains already declaring interest in the state governorship position.
The chieftains are not only showing interest but also said to be challenging the authority of Tinubu who is the leader of the party in the state.
The swelling rank of “disgruntled members” of the party, sources said, is causing unease in the dynasty at a time the opposition has vowed to checkmate the dominance of the APC leader in the state ahead of the 2023 elections.
After weeks of waiting, President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday cleared the way for President-elect Joe Biden to transition to the White House, giving him access to briefings and funding even as Trump vowed to continue fighting the election results.
Trump, a Republican, has alleged widespread voter fraud in the Nov. 3 election without providing evidence. Although he did not concede or acknowledge his Democratic rival’s victory on Monday, Trump’s announcement that his staff would cooperate with Biden’s represented a significant shift and was the closest he has come to admitting defeat.
Biden won 306 state-by-state electoral votes, well over the 270 needed for victory, to Trump’s 232. Biden also holds a lead of more than 6 million in the national popular vote.
Onion is the new gold — this expression has become popular on social media recently due to the scarcity of the vegetable.
Onion is a popular vegetable used in Nigerian homes for culinary and beauty purposes. However, it has become a topic for jokes after a sudden scarcity led to a hike in prices.
The bulb onion is mainly cultivated in Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Kebbi, Sokoto, Plateau, and Bauchi states.
The pocket of the average Nigerian seems to be under attack given the price hike that comes with Christmas festivities combined with fluctuating petrol prices due to deregulation and food inflation that hit 17.38 percent in September.
South Korea appears to have decided to withdraw its trade minister, Yoo Myung-hee, from the race for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General, paving the way for Nigeria’s candidate, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to be confirmed as the head of the global trade body.
Washington Trade Daily (WTD) quoted people familiar with the development to have disclosed South Korea was expected to announce its decision to withdraw Myung-hee in the coming days to enable the WTO’s General Council appoint Okonjo-Iweala.
The outgoing administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday issued a new temporary rule that could require tourist and business travellers from two dozen countries, mostly in Africa, to pay a bond of as much as $15,000 to visit the United States.
The U.S. State Department said the temporary final rule, which takes effect Dec. 24 and runs through June 24, targets countries whose nationals have higher rates of overstaying B-2 visas for tourists and B-1 visas for business travellers. The Trump administration said the six-month pilot program aims to test the feasibility of collecting such bonds and will serve as a diplomatic deterrence to overstaying the visas.
The project initially was to be completed in September but for the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was delayed and postponed.
The flyover which is said to be at 60 per cent completion stage, took off from Oba Ogunji Road and drops at Oke Koto axis of Agege.
The third section of the bridge extends to old Abeokuta Highway into Abule Egba.
The total length of the bridge is 1.4 kilometres and it is expected to have streetlight facilities and pedestrian walkways.
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Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has unveiled Nigeria’s first locally-assembled full electric car manufactured by Stallion Group, Igbere TV reports.
The Hyundai Kona car comes with zero-emission, 482km driving range, and can be charged both at home and workplace.
“With an innovation of Hyundai Kona, we do not need to put the pressure on what is the pump price of oil again, what is the pump price of petroleum again,” Mr Sanwo-Olu said on Friday.
According to him, the state government will partner with Ibile Oil and Gas and other private organisations to create different charging points in the city, so that people will have where to charge the cars.
US special forces rescued an American citizen in an operation on Saturday in northern Nigeria that is believed to have killed several of his captors, US officials said.
Forces including US navy Seals rescued Philip Walton, 27, who was abducted on Tuesday from his home in neighbouring southern Niger, two US officials said on condition of anonymity, adding that no US troops were hurt. A diplomatic source in Niger said Walton was now at the US ambassador’s residence in Niamey.
“Big win for our very elite US special forces today,” Donald Trump wrote on Twitter.
The Pentagon confirmed the operation but did not provide the identity of the hostage.
A new national lockdown across England means people must stay at home unless for specific reasons, such as attending school or college or going to the supermarket.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the new measures at a Downing Street press conference on Saturday.
He said the measures were necessary to avert bleak predictions of 85,000 deaths this winter.
When do the new rules come into force?
The new national lockdown will run from Thursday, November 5 until Wednesday, December 2.
The lockdown will then be eased on a regional basis according to the latest coronavirus case data at that time.
After weeks insisting he is sticking to local restrictions, Boris Johnson completed a humiliating U-turn by announcing blanket coronavirus restrictions for England at a prime-time press conference alongside medical and science chiefs Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance. The PM said the draconian measures - which come into force from midnight Thursday morning - were the only way to avert bleak Sage predictions of 85,000 deaths this winter, far above the previous 'reasonable worst case', and the NHS being swamped before Christmas. Another 326 UK fatalities were declared today - nearly double last Saturday's tally.
But infections, which can represent the current situation more accurately, were down five per cent on a week ago at 21,915 in a possible sign that the rise could already be slowing. The brutal squeeze - billed as 'Tier Four' on the government's sliding scale - will see non-essential shops in England shut until December 2, as well as bars and restaurants despite the 'absolutely devastating' impact on the already crippled hospitality sector. Households will be banned from mixing indoors during the period, and people will be told not to leave home and travel unless for unavoidable reasons, such as work that cannot be performed remotely, or to take exercise. However, unlike the March lockdown schools and universities are expected to remain open - despite unions warning, they are key to the spread.
Tens of thousands of Parisians last night caused massive traffic jams in a desperate attempt to flee the French capital ahead of the start of Emmanuel Macron's new national shutdown.
Video posted to Twitter shows huge numbers of Parisians attempting a mass exodus out of the mega-city in a bid to avoid the 9pm curfew and the start of the second lockdown from midnight.
The night air was filled with the sound of blaring car horns while social media users estimated that Parisians had created 'hundreds of miles' of gridlock to escape to their second homes in the country.
Revellers also seized the opportunity to spend one last night with friends and family last night before bars and restaurants are closed as the French government plunges the country back into lockdown.
The assailant was shot 14 times and wounded by armed police as he screamed 'God is greatest' in Arabic during the attack and 'while under medication' as he was taken to hospital, Nice's Mayor Christian Estrosi said. Investigators found two unused knives, a Koran and two mobile phones, in addition to a bag with some personal effects. He was unknown to French security services. Mourners attended a vigil outside the basilica and the French Embassy in Berlin (bottom left) to pay tribute to the victims of the triple killing. The attack comes amid fury across the Islamic world at President Macron for defending satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, and on the day that Sunni Muslims mark the Prophet's birthday.
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested the fleeing SGT Eze Aiwansone, attached to the Special Protection Unit (SPU) Base 16, Ikeja, for the shooting of his girlfriend, Joy Eze.
The incident occurred on 8th October 2020, at Opebi Ikeja Lagos.
The suspect, who had been on the run, was arrested by his elder brother who is an inspector of police in Lagos State and handed over to the command.
The State CID Panti has taken over the case on the instruction of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, for further investigation.
