Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is contributing Euro 2.85 million to the Standards and Trade Development Facility over a period of four years (2022-2025). The fund is to facilitate safe and inclusive agricultural trade in developing and least-developed countries aimed at helping them to meet international food safety, animal, and plant health standards. The World Trade Organisation …

The Nigerian Immigration Service ( NIS) on Tuesday said about 140,000 international passports are still uncollected nationwide. The service spokesman, Deputy Comptroller of Immigration Service, Mr Tony Akuneme, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria when he paid an official visit to the Alausa Passport office, Ikeja, Lagos state. Akuneme also said about 40,000 of the …

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has called on all Nigerians to unite their efforts to build a new country. In his New Year message on Sunday, Obi told Nigerians that 2023 is a critical year and time in the nation urging them to take back Nigeria to resolve all the challenges facing the country as …

Hide and seek puts public relations and brand credibility to the test Emirates Airlines, British Airways and most of the international airlines in Nigeria have renewed their public relations war of words and action with the government. In the process, Emirates may have suspended their Nigerian services and stopped operating flights from Lagos and Abuja to Dubai. The claim of …

Despite losing their opening match, Nigeria qualified for the quarter finals of the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup finals in India on Monday having won their last two matches. Monday’s 2-1 result over Chile in Bhubaneswar followed the victory over New Zealand last Friday. Blessing Emmanuel’s goal in the 4th minute and Bisola Mosaku’s strike off a free-kick by dead-ball …

The UN General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council in response to Russian forces’ alleged killings of civilians in Ukraine. Nigeria and 57 other member-states however abstained. The resolution received a two-thirds majority in the 193-member Assembly, with 93 nations voting in favour and 24 against. Fifty-eight abstained from the process. Thursday’s historical vote on …

Nigeria is no longer the country with the highest number of extremely poor people in the world, according to the World Poverty Clock (WPC).  WPC, which is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally, now ranks India as the topmost country in that deplorable league. In 2018, Nigeria with 87 million people recorded to be in extreme poverty, held …

Nigeria’s U17 female football team kick-off the qualifying campaign for this year’s FIFA World Cup in India with a clash against DR Congo at the Stade des Martyrs de la Pentecôte in Kinshasa. It’s the first leg of the second round of a four-stage route to India 2022 slated for October. Nigeria, along with Ghana, qualified for the inaugural FIFA …

It’s not yet joy for some Nigerians trapped in the world’s new war theatre, Ukraine. This is even as over 775 of them returned home on Friday. Reports indicate that no fewer than 150 Nigerian students are trapped in the war zone. In Sumy, a Ukrainian city bordering Russia, the students were reportedly denied access to Russia despite interventions by …