Nearly half of Europe is threatened by drought, according to a report by the European Commission’s science and knowledge service. The report said as of August 10, 47 per cent of Europe’s territory had reached a warning level for drought, while 17 per cent of surveyed regions were on full alert. Researchers said dry conditions were related to scarce rain and a number of heat-waves from May onwards that had affected river discharges widely across Europe. Reduced water volumes have also adversely affected the energy sector for both hydropower generation and cooling systems of other power plants. The drought has…
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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has questioned the Federal Government’s handling of the farmer-herder crisis. Speaking exclusively to ChannelsTV’s NewsNight, a pre-recorded program which airs every Monday, the literary icon wondered why the government was yet to ban cattle group, Miyetti Allah while it had proscribed the Indigenous People of Biafra, a group seeking the secession of the South-East from Nigeria. He said Nigeria must always put the country’s history in perspective in order to understand security challenges. “My temperament does not accept that anyone should chase me out of my God-given earth. So, it’s a temperamental thing as well,” Soyinka said.…
Lagos State Fire Service said one person was injured when an explosion was recorded at an independent marketing filling station in Badagry, Lagos state on Monday night. Mr Abel Husu, the Station Head, Badagry Fire Service, Lagos state, who confirmed the incident on Tuesday, said the station got wind of Yemoral oil and gas filling fire incident along Ajara, Badagry Lagos at about 8:55pm, on Monday. Husu said they got to the filling station about ten minutes later and commenced efforts to put out the fire. “By our findings, we were told that the driver of the car had already bought…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Bauchi command on Tuesday attributed the high rate of Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) in the state to drivers’ quest to regain lost hours. Mr Yusuf Abdullahi, State Sector Commander of the corps who made this known on Tuesday, explained that commercial drivers within the state tried to regain their lost hours in other states as soon as they got into the state. He added that the drivers’ action was also due to the good road network in the state, noting that five major federal roads ran across the state. “Between those five major roads that…
Security experts and stakeholders have commended the military and other security agencies over the recent successes recorded in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East region. The stakeholders who spoke in Bauchi, Gombe, Maiduguri and Yola, said the feat achieved had resulted to relative peace in the region. They urged the military and other security agencies to sustain the tempo, so as to improve security and restore peace for sustainable social and economic development of the region and the country. The stakeholders also urged the people to continue to support the military to ensure total elimination of the…
When we brought my brother to the hospital, they only gave him two drips, no drugs, and even no injection – Muktar
Renowned author, Chimamanda Adichie on Monday said that the words – troublesome and innovative – have their pride of place in the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Adichie delivered the keynote address at the 62nd edition of the NBA Annual General Conference holding at the Eko Atlantic City in Lagos state. The conference had the theme: “Bold Transition”. Adichie made a distinction between the words – troublesome and disruptive. According to her, both words are often used to describe negative emotions whereas they can also describe positivity. “Traditionally, the word disruptive has often been used in a negative sense; we have school…
Ultimately, the government has eaten a humble pie and accepted to look into lapses, errors, and inadequacies of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS), and Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS) after several months of protests, strike and 6-month of imposed starvation to members of ASUU and university-based unions. A Presidential Technical Committee was set up to ensure the review of the strengths, weaknesses, and challenges of these systems while advising the President on the best methods to improve them. At the inauguration, the government noted the detection of errors in IPPIS processes…
In recent decades, Nigeria’s economy can best be described as mono-cultural as it is largely run from foreign exchange from the oil sector. However, this source of income has become unpredictable due to a number of reason that disrupt the market. Some of these factors include conflicts in oil producing countries, deliberate efforts by countries to preserve their oil reserves, foreign exchange, and smuggling. Due to climate change concerns, many countries have put in place, mechanisms to cut the use of fossil fuel and transit to cleaner energies. As an oil producing country, these concerns have triggered efforts by the Federal…
During its Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) (Jan. 1 – June 30, 2018), Bulgaria brought the issue of the European perspective of the Western Balkans to the top of the EU agenda. The matter was a priority for Bulgaria’s EU Presidency, during which the highlight was the EU-Western Balkans Summit on May 17, 2018, attended by representatives of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia and Kosovo. The European integration of the Western Balkan countries continued to be in the focus of Bulgaria’s policy. In a joint news conference with Albanian President…