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Africa’s Trans-Saharan Corridor gains support
Global Highways
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Support is given for Africa’s crucial Trans-Saharan Corridor route. By MJ Woof July 16, 2025 Read time: 1 min Further development of the crucial Trans-Saharan Corridor will deliver economic benefits to Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Niger, Chad, and...
Oil Theft: CDS Urges Community Ownership Of Natl Assets, Lauds PINL
New Telegraph
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July 15, 2025
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa, has called on host communities of the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) to take full ownership of national assets located within their areas and work collectively to safeguard them from...
These foreign illegal miners
Tribune Online
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July 16, 2025
IN recent times, there has been an upsurge in illegal mining activities in Nigeria. Exploiting loopholes in the solid minerals sector, the illegal miners have been robbing Nigeria blind and laughing all the way to the bank. Particularly in recent...
June inflation rate dips to 22.22%, lowest in three months
Punch
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July 16, 2025
The National Bureau of Statistics has reported that Nigeria’s headline inflation rate decreased for the third consecutive month to 22.22 per cent in June 2025, down from 22.97 per cent recorded in May 2025. It was 23.71 per cent in April 2025,...
CDS urges host communities to protect national assets
Punch
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July 15, 2025
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has called on host communities of the Trans Niger Pipeline to take ownership of the national assets situated in their areas and ensure that they collectively safeguard the same. Musa, who was...
CDS warns against attacks on national assets
The Sun Nigeria
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July 15, 2025
From Tony John, Port Harcourt The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa, has called on host communities of the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) to take ownership of the national assets situated in their areas and work...
MOSIEND Calls For Dialogue, Peaceful Resolutions On Pipeline Repair Contract
The Will
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July 15, 2025
July 15, (THEWILL) — The leadership of Movement for the Survival of the Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND) has raised alarm over the recent calls from a group known as Ijaw People’s Development Initiative (IPDI), asking for the...
Power Deficit: Ex-NDPHC CEO Advocates Independent Transmission Project Model
This Day
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July 14, 2025
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The erstwhile Managing Director of Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Chiedu Ugbo, has advocated the use of Independent Transmission Project (ITP) model of public private partnership to solve long-standing...
Martian rock that crash landed in the Sahara listed to sell for around $2M at auction
The Independent
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July 14, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Liberia Enters Carbon Market
Liberian Observer
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The Liberian Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is leading the country's entry into the carbon market, aiming to sell carbon credits to companies and individuals seeking to offset their emissions. Dr. Emmanuel Yarpolowo, EPA Executive Director,...
Weed Regulation is Foundering. For Answers, Look to the Labs
Undark Magazine
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July 16, 2025
On the Friday before Thanksgiving last year, the white dome of the Oklahoma State Capitol building stood etched against a bright blue sky. Summer Parker, her partner Charles Hrabina, and his 14-year-old daughter had driven to Oklahoma City from...
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The Blackstone Valley Call & Times - Rhode Island
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Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches meteoric $5.3 million at New York auction It's another meteoric rise for what's called the largest piece of Mars on Earth. The 54-pound rock fetched nearly $5.3 million at an auction at Sotheby's in New York...
Nigeria can generate $1bn from leather sector, says NESG’s report
Business Day
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July 16, 2025
Nigeria, one of the highest producers of leather and finished leather products in Africa, is said to have the potential to generate about $1 billion, this year (2025), a Nigerian Economic Summit Group`s report, has indicated. The leather value...
ADC, A Paradigm Of Political Coalitions?
Leadership
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July 16, 2025
In Nigeria’s political evolution, few events shape the national imagination like the birth of a new political movement. The unveiling of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) by former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar and former Labour Party...
What's Next For African Upstream? African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 To Explore 2026 Market Trends
MENAFN
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July 16, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo With Africa's upstream capital expenditure expected to reach $54 billion by 2030, the continent is gearing up for significant growth. A rise in frontier drilling, untapped resources in proven...
Gender-Discriminatory Nationality Laws are Fueling Poverty & Violence Against Women
Inter Press Service
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July 16, 2025
Democracy, Featured, Gender, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Maithreyi Kamalanathan is Global Media Coordinator, Equality Now NEW YORK, Jul 16 2025 (IPS) - Around a quarter of...
A CURIOUS COALITION OF POLITICIANS
This Day
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July 14, 2025
BAMIDELE ATOYEBI reckons that the ADC is a coalition of expired ambitions A new political front has emerged loud, self-righteous, and curiously united. But what binds them isn’t ideology. It isn’t patriotism. It certainly isn’t love for the...
From ambition to action: How Africa’s homegrown agricultural strategies are forging a path to food security and prosperity
News Ghana
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July 15, 2025
Africa’s agricultural landscape presents both great potential and significant challenges. The continent has strong farming communities and diverse agricultural areas. These factors offer the ability to feed its growing population and drive...
Senegal joins growing list of countries that have eliminated trachoma
Media Monitors Network
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July 14, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal becomes the ninth country in WHO’s African Region to have achieved this feat. “I commend Senegal for freeing its population...
NATO: The Most Dangerous Organization
Consortium News
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July 15, 2025
By the time of its out-of-theater intervention in Afghanistan, it became clear that NATO now had the ability and permission to operate as the policeman of the U.S.-led order. Cover art by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. By...