Boris Johnson kicked off the 2022 Africa Investment Conference on Thursday, promising that British business would help Africa to prosper from the green industrial revolution. The UK Prime Minister said humanity can aid its rescue from catastrophic climate change, if Africa partners with the UK in its ‘Clean Green Initiative,’ announced during last November’s COP26
Excluding any last-minute changes, the new national carrier, Nigerian Air, will begin flight operations from April 2022. The Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the virtual Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) at the Presidential
By Taofik Salako, And Muyiwa Lucas. Rising oil price improves the prospects of Nigeria’s budget implementation but it may also stoke inflation and increased hardship on the average Nigerian, in a delicate balancing for a country whose major export is crude oil and import is refined petroleum products. Oil prices spiralled to three-year high above
Commodity markets can make or break economies. In the first half of the 19th century, the booming whaling industry made New England rich, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, was probably for a while the most prosperous city in the US. But overharvesting made whaling increasingly difficult and whale oil more expensive, and it was steadily replaced
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