An 83-year-old British missionary and his assistant have been abducted by an unknown group of armed men in Cameroon, his church group has said. Huub Welters and assistant Henry Kang were captured on Tuesday, April 1, in Bambui, a town located in the country’s separatist conflict-hit anglophone northwest. The pair were on their way to…
The Confederation of Sahel States (AES) – comprising Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali, have concluded defense agreements with Russia to strengthen their fight against insurgency. The deal was finalized on Thursday during a high-level meeting in Moscow between the foreign ministers of AES member states and Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov. Both sides welcomed the…
NNPC GMD Bayo Ojulari. The seasoned technocrat and consummate administrator is bringing into his new assignment over three decades of impactful experience in the oil industry… Watchers of the nation’s upstream and downstream sectors are of the opinion that based on the trajectory of his brilliant academic records and wealth of cognate experience, Mr Ojulari…
Sian Barbara Allen, a Golden Globe-nominated actor who appeared in dozens of TV series including “The Waltons” from the 1970s to the ’90s and also was known for her work in the 1972 film “You’ll Like My Mother,” has died. Allen died Monday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, of Alzheimer’s disease, her family announced in…
The Naira depreciated against the American dollar at the official window on Thursday. The foreign exchange data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) showed that the naira rose to N1,552.53/$1 from N1, 531.25/$1 it traded on Wednesday. This indicates that the naira depreciated by N21.28 against the dollar on a day-to-day basis. On the…
