Nigeria's Surveyor General of the Federation, Surv. Abuduganiyu Adebomehin, has been elected chairman of the governing council of the African Institute for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (AFRIGIST) for a two-year term. Abuduganiyu's election took place during the 55th Council meeting at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State. The council also approved the admission…

The Southeast caucus of the National Assembly has raised concerns about the exclusion of beneficiaries from the region's tertiary institutions in the recent disbursement of student loans by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND). The caucus observed that the Southeast was conspicuously absent from the list of beneficiaries, despite a substantial sum of N2.95 billion…

The Governor of Kaduna, Senator Uba Sani, has declared that the security in Birnin Gwari, a terrorist-ridden area, has stabilised under his administration. He also flagged off the construction of a 35.6-kilometre road linking 62 agrarian communities in the area to the market. Sani stated that the security efforts in the troubled Birnin Gwari Local…

Eight bodies have been retrieved from a gravel mine that collapsed on Sunday in Zambia, police said, with more workers feared trapped under the debris. On Sunday morning, part of the pit around 45 kilometres (28 miles) east of the capital Lusaka caved in as a tipper truck was loading gravel, "trapping an unknown number…

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has asked the Federal Government to explain why Oando Plc received accelerated approval to buy the onshore assets of AGIP and ENI while other transactions such as the Shell/Renaissance deal and the Mobil/Seplat continue to suffer delays. He also criticised the Bola Tinubu administration for allegedly implementing a sham subsidy…