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Abdullahi Sanusi Dantata, the chairman of Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company, is dead. He died on Tuesday in a German hospital. Alhaji Dantata was an uncle to business mogul Dr. Aliko Dangote. He was rushed to the German hospital from Nigeria after he fell ill about a week ago. In a statement last night by the Director of Communication and ...

A 24-year-old Cameroonian engineer has built the first fully touch screen medical tablet that could soon save many African lives. He first has to find the necessary funding to mass-produce the device. In a country that has only 30 heart surgeons for more than 20 million people, the dream of Arthur Zang, a 24-year-old Cameroonian engineer, is to facilitate the ...

Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has identified inconsistency in government policies as responsible for Nigeria’s slow pace of growth and development. Speaking at the closing ceremony of a 2-day Interactive Session between the State Government and the organized Private Sector in Ilorin, Governor Ahmed, while recognizing the fact that the resources were scarce in the face of competing demands, ...

Current finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, may have been privy to the manipulations in the importation of petroleum products in her first tenure between 2003 and 2006, if the position of the Central Bank of Nigeria on the documentation of the products is correct. Reacting to the Nigeria Customs Service’ allegation that the bank and the federal ministry of finance had ...

Multiple explosions allegedly planted by members of the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram on Tuesday rocked the city of Kaduna in military barracks. Report says two of the attacks were apparent suicide bombings carried out by suspected Islamist militants of the Boko Haram sect. The first bomb was detonated under a flyover in Kawo killing 3 people who were riding ...