February 2021

Libyan delegates at UN-led talks outside Geneva on Friday made the surprise choice of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as prime minister of a transitional unity government to take the war-ravaged country through to elections in December.

Dbeibah was chosen along with a three-member presidency council to head a unity administration and steer the North African state towards the ballot box on December 24. The Canadian-trained engineer from the city of Misrata and founder of the Libya al-Mostakbal (Libya of the Future) movement previously led the Libyan Investment and Development Company under dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

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Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed has disclosed that the Federal Government is aware of talks between renowned Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi, and bandits terrorizing Zamfara State.

He said it was not unusual for the cleric to act as a bridge between the government and the bandits.

Mohammed spoke while featuring on TVC’s ‘This Morning’ show monitored by The Nation.

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He said the government was using some back channels to address the security challenges, adding the bandits might be ready to listen to the cleric than they …

Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala desire to become the first woman and first African director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) may have gotten a major boost as South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee on Friday abandoned her bid to head the global body.

Yoo had consulted with the United States — her prime backer — and other major countries and ‘decided to renounce her candidacy’, South Korea’s trade ministry said in a statement.

The process to name a successor to Roberto Azevedo had been deadlocked since October when key WTO ambassadors tapped Okonjo-Iweala as the best pick to lead the organization …

The Federal Government on Thursday, disbursed ₦27 billion to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as part of the MSMEs Survival Fund Scheme.

This was disclosed by the Minister of State, Industry, Trade and Investment, Amb. Mariam Katagum, while addressing newsmen on Thursday, in Abuja.

The minister revealed that the government would open portal for the last phase, February 9.

According to her, the Steering Committee for the Survival Fund would turn in its reports to the Ministry of Finance as well as await the second tranche of the fund.

Rivers State Governor Neysom Wike has urged the National leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to channel his energy to other profitable ventures, stating that the presidency would be out of reach of his party and himself come 2023 general elections.

Wike, who gave Tinubu the advice, yesterday, in Yola, Adamawa State, while on an inspection tour of projects being executed by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, said with the high performance of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors and alleged failure of APC government under President Muhammadu Buhari is recording on daily basis, it is clear that Nigerians …