Venezuela begins sovereign debt overhaul after years of default
Venezuela has launched a broad restructuring of its foreign debt, including obligations tied to state oil company PDVSA, the Ministry of Economy and Finance announced on Wednesday. The government said total external liabilities amount to around 170 billion dollars. Venezuela has been in default since 2017. According to estimates from the International Monetary Fund […]
China is top geopolitical challenge for U.S., says Rubio
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described China as the biggest geopolitical challenge facing the United States, while also calling ties with Beijing the most important relationship Washington must manage. Speaking to Fox News aboard Air Force One en route to China, Rubio said Beijing is “both our top political challenge, geopolitically, and it’s […]
Xi welcomes Trump in Beijing
Chinese President Xi Jinping received U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing with military honours on Thursday. Television footage showed the two leaders shaking hands for some time as they greeted each other. Trump exchanged a few words with Xi at the Great Hall of the People in the heart of the Chinese capital. The […]
Kano Assembly seek urgent intervention to curb tomato pest’s outbreak
Kano State Assembly Standing Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources has raised alarm over outbreak of Tuta Absoluta ravaging tomato farms in the state. The Committee Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim (APC-Karaye) disclosed this on Wednesday while presenting the committee’s report on the outbreak before the house. Ibrahim said the committee was assigned to […]
Barber jailed three months for stabbing neighbour
A Life Camp Chief Magistrates’ Court in Abuja on Thursday, sentenced a 21-year-old barber, Ibrahim Haruna, to three months imprisonment for stabbing his neighbour with a knife. The police charged Haruna, who resides in Karomajiji Airport Road, Abuja, with causing grievous hurt. He pleaded guilty to the charge. Chief Magistrate Musa Jobbo, in his […]
NFVCB classifies 304 films in four months
The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), said it has approved and classified no fewer than 304 films between January and April. This is contained in a statement on Thursday, by the Director, Corporate Affairs, NFVCB, Ogbonna Onwumere. He said that the movies approved and classified within the period under review, increased by […]
HIV positive father remanded for allegedly defiling, infecting daughter
The Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Offences Court in Awka, Anambra State, has remanded a 46-year-old bricklayer, Rapuruchukwu Ezenandu, who allegedly defiled his 17-year-old daughter and infected her with HIV. The defendant is facing a one-count charge of defilement. According to the Police Prosecutor, Insp. Chinyere Okechukwu, the accused committed the offence at Umudala […]
Lack of political will hindering adult education in states, NMEC declares
The National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NMEC) has linked inadequate political will by state and local governments to the major obstacle to effective adult education delivery. Dr John Edeh, Director of Literacy and Development, NMEC, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja […]
Nimi Wariboko’s The Breath That Remains
By Toyin Falola Nimi Wariboko’s book, The Breath That Remains shows an ambitious and deliberately unsettling literary work. It is one of those masterpieces that resists the conventional philosophy structure in its arguments and style. Rather than taking after the usual, the book takes to a linear styled thesis development. And through man-encompassing thought, […]
Pro Wariboko on Kalabari dignity
By Toyin Falola The historic style of cultural distinction established in Nimi Wariboko’s Kalabari Dignity is multi-layered. On one hand, it is an illustrative insight on a people and on another layer, it is a meditation on the task of becoming human within history. Wariboko’s work is a philosophically textured and culturally self-aware […]
