AFRICAN Development Bank (AfDB) officials have announced that they intend to spend $2bn on African Continental Free Trade Area (Afcfta) related infrastructure over the next two years.
Founded in 2018, Afcfta is the largest free trade area in the world in terms of the number of participating countries since the formation of...
NIGERIA has been excluded from the list of 28 countries granted debt pardon by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) which offers an amnesty to very poor countries.
As a result of the economic fallout of coronavirus pandemic, many poor countries have been unable to...
NIGERIA has failed to make the World Health Organisation (WHO) shortlist of nations that qualify to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine because of the country’s inability to meet the standard requirement of being able to offer storage at the required -70 degrees Celsius.
With the vaccine being distributed worldwide, the...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Looking at the collegiate approach President Biden is adopting, it is crystal clear that the way forward over the next four years will be team politics
(2) President Biden has already cancelled the bilateral Keystone XL Pipeline contract with Canada in favour of the more multilateral approach as epitomised by the...
NIGERIA is one of six African countries that have significantly stepped up the production of genetically modified (GM) crops over the last year as part of a masterplan to dramatically boost food production across the continent.
According to a recent report by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech...
POPE Francis I has intervened in the ongoing crisis in Nigeria by calling for prayers over the current violence and widespread looting that has spread nationwide across the country asking that peace be returned.
Last Tuesday, Nigerian Army troops opened fire on unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate, killing several of...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) We have to write to all human rights bodies internationally, asking that they agree to back a move to get those responsible for this massacre brought before the International Criminal Court. If those who committed such crimes in Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia were brought to justice, so too should similar murderers in...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ratified Nigeria's Bilateral Air Services Agreement (Basa) with four partnering nations in the aviation industry aimed at opening up their airspace to Nigerian carriers.
Since assuming office, the government has entered into Basa agreements with the US, India, Morocco and Rwanda and today,...
