The parliament of Tanzania has confirmed Philip Isdor Mpango as the country’s new vice-president. Mpango was Tanzania’s Finance Minister until his new appointment, and he now files the gap left behind by President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Samia Suluhu Hassan was also elevated to president following the death of former President John Magufuli. The new Vice President had…
The family of George Floyd; the black American man whose killing by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, sparked the Black Life Matters protests, has called for justice. Forty-five-year-old Chauvin was recorded on video as he knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes until he died. Chauvin has since been sacked from the police, and…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has kicked against plans by the National Assembly to spend forty-two billion naira on the renovation of the legislative complex in Abuja. The new National Assembly renovation budget is five billion naira higher than what the lawmakers had budgeted in 2019, which SERAP and close to six hundred other groups…
The Federal Government has borrowed two point five billion US dollars to fund the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan railway. This was made known by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, during a television interview last night. Amaechi further said that by the time the railway project is completed, government would have spent up to two point six…
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that full utilization of Nigeria’s gas resources has the capacity to uplift the nation’s economy. President Buhari made the declaration at the launch of the “The Decade of Gas in Nigeria”, which is to achieve a gas-powered economy by 2030. The launch was done alongside the opening of a conference in Abuja,…
The Bayelsa State Government has given cattle owners in the state fourteen days to put them in ranches or move them out of the state. Cattle owners who failed to comply with the two-week deadline and whose cows are seen moving about for grazing would have their animals impounded. The government directive was passed down through the…