October 11, 2019

Nigeria Will Team Up With Cameroon To Set Cocoa Price

October 11, 2019 2:13 am

Nigeria is planning to team up with Cameroon to agree on a premium for their cocoa with international buyers, following moves by the top producers – Ivory Coast and Ghana, to boost prices for their crops, the Vice President of the World Cocoa Producers Organisation, Sayina Riman, has said.

The plan, which was said to have been suggested by Nigeria, the world’s fourth-largest cocoa producer, is part of a drive-by cocoa growers in West Africa and Latin America to try to address a perceived imbalance between farmers’ incomes and money made by big commodities traders.

Newsmen reported that Ivory Coast …

NIWA: Moghalu Pledges To Complete Every Ongoing Project

October 11, 2019 1:58 am

The new Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Dr. George Moghalu, has promised to continue all ongoing viable and justifiable projects of the agency as long they conform to due process and the Act establishing NIWA.

Moghalu made this known at NIWA headquarters in Lokoja while delivering his speech shortly after he assumed office as the substantive head of the agency.
He pointed out that the overall policy objectives of NIWA were to transform the inland waterways to make them not just economically, viable but also to provide a safe, reliable and alternate transport system to ease …

President Trump Optimistic About US-China Trade Talks

October 11, 2019 1:20 am

US President Donald Trump sounded an optimistic note at the end of the first day of US-China trade talks in Washington DC.

“We had a very, very good negotiation with China,” Mr. Trump told reporters after the talks wrapped up.

Mr. Trump will meet directly with Vice Premier Liu He at the White House on Friday. Earlier reports suggested the Chinese delegation might leave after the first day of talks. Asian markets followed Wall Street higher after Mr. Trump’s comments.

Thursday’s talks kicked off amid a backdrop of renewed tensions, as the US blacklisted 28 Chinese entities over human rights …

I Have Zero Tolerance For Corruption, Says CJN Tanko

October 11, 2019 1:04 am

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, has declared that he has zero-tolerance for corruption and expressed the readiness of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate and sanction judges across the country, who indulge in acts that are incongruent with judicial norms.

The CJN, who is also the Chairman of the NJC, advised any aggrieved member of the public offended by the conduct of any judicial officer to forward a petition to the legal body for appropriate action, saying his administration has zero-tolerance for corruption within the judiciary.

The CJN’s position is coming as the opposition …