The Dubai International Advertising Festival, the leading creative advertising competition for the Middle East and Africa, will extend in 2010 to also allow entries from Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.
The Security Council today called for greater international cooperation in fighting drug trafficking, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon terming it a leading threat to global peace and security.
The Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Moshe Ram, has shown his displeasure against the impression being created that the State of Israel is all about wars and politics, whereas the country is rich in culture which it is willing to share with other countries across the globe.
The government on Wednesday called on Arab businessmen to invest in the country, saying the east African nation offers great opportunity for investment.
Federal Government efforts to attract foreign participation in refinery projects have received a boost as Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of India's state-run oil exploration major ONGC, is planning to set up a greenfield refinery in Nigeria.
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has summoned a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party to discuss the health of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who is currently in hospital in Saudi Arabia
Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji, has denied knowledge of any letter written by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to the leadership of the National Assembly on his medical vacation in Saudi Arabia.
Dubai is a fascinating place. Not just as a shopping destination for the wealthy, but as an example of what is possible even in a desert, with just a bit of imagination, good neighbourliness and luck.
A well-known Maiduguri-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abba Aji, was one of at least 31 Nigerian pilgrims that died in Saudi Arabia during this year's Hajj execise.
Thirty Nigerian pilgrims have so far lost their lives in Saudi Arabia during the 2009 hajj, an official of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Alhaji Uba Mana, has said.
THE former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Paul Bachengana, is dead.
Pilgrims from Nasarawa State on Saturday protested against the decision to shift their departure date from December 6 to December 9, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
As a precautionary me-asure, the Central Bank of Nigeria is carrying out investigations to ascertain if any Nigerian bank is exposed to the Dubai debt crisis.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is billed to return to Nigeria next week, one of the medical doctors attending to the President at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, said yesterday.
Nigerian Ambas-sador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Garba Aminchi, has debunked insinuation that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adu's health has worsened within the past two days.
President Umaru Yar'Adua could well spend one year or more abroad recovering his health as there is no constitutional limitation on his absence from the country, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, declared yesterday.
Due to inconsistent regulations and an uncompetitive business environment, private investment in the developing countries of Northern Africa and the Middle East is not at a healthy level. As a result, growth is suffering in the region, diminishing jobs and reducing income for those who need it most.
Lack of access to multi-lingual scholarly journals hinders development in the Arab world, according to Muna AbuSulayman, Secretary General of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Kingdom Foundation, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, and Yale 2009 World Fellow.
Controversy appears to be the middle name of leader of the Nigerian delegation to this year's Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, Senator Kanti Bello, as he and some Nigerian lawmakers traded insults in the holy land.
The United Nations mission in Iraq has indicated its interest to help the country's leaders resolve differences over national elections that have delayed holding the poll by its constitutional deadline of January.
The Indian government has donated desk top computers and other accessories to the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA)'s Directorate of Information and Communication Technology which was commissioned yesterday by Air Marshal Paul Dike, the Chief of Defence Staff.
Istithmar World's current tourism investment projects in the country are likely not to be affected by the financial woes of the parent company, Dubai World.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. James Kabarebe, yesterday received in his office the Israeli Ambassador to Rwanda, Oded Ben-Haim, and discussed several areas of cooperation.
Leader of Nigeria's Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia (Amirul Hajj), Senator Kanti Bello, yesterday escaped being lynched by angry pilgrims while inspecting luggage weighing centres in Mecca.
On Thursday last week the eagle-eyed financial world woke up to shocking news from Dubai - one of Uganda's leading import markets. Dubai World, a holding company that manages an array of businesses and projects for the Dubai government had the day before placed in a request to its financiers to freeze its debt obligations and extend maturities for six months.
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