Economy

Experts Raise Questions as Nigeria Officially Joins BRICS as Partner Country

By Michael OlugbodeNigeria has officially joined BRICS to become the ninth partner country with Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda, and Uzbekistan.This is just as experts have raised...

Prof Okorie Austine Uche is the New COREN Registrar

Sir. Engr. Prof. Okorie Austine Uche FNSE FNICE KJW , Former Chairman NSE, Kano Branch, Pioneer Chairman, NSE,...

Eyewitness reveals how power generator caused Niger petrol tanker tragedy

It has emerged that the generator powering the transloading of petrol from a fallen tanker to another caused...

Brazil announces Nigeria as BRICS partner country

The Brazilian government has announced the formal admission of Nigeria as a partner country in the multinational bloc...

How Dangote Refinery is affecting European markets – OPEC

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, has said Dangote Refinery is affecting European markets, as importation of...

Shoes made for talking … to your phone

A startup is working on a product that can tell you exactly what it's like to walk a mile in someone else's shoes —...

How rail will solve problem of mass transit

Perhaps in no other African city is efficient rail system most desirable than Nigeria, the continent's most populous country, and Lagos, its economic nerve...

Non-autonomy for NCAA denies Nigeria direct flights to US

Nigerian airlines are still very far from direct flight operations on the Nigeria-United States route in spite of resources and energy expended by the...

U.S. High-Speed Train Projects Get a Push

It may be old hat in Europe and Asia to rocket through the landscape on a 200-plus-mile-an-hour train. But in America, all that promoters...

Climate-Change Bill Will Become Law This Year, Waxman Predicts

U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman predicted that a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions will become law by the end...

Dangote partners Huawei for National Fibre Optic Network in Nigeria

Dancom Technologies (“Dancom”), a subsidiary company of Dangote Group and Huawei Technologies (“Huawei”), a leading next generation telecommunication solutions provider, have concluded an agreement...