Nigeria: NUPRC Slashes Signature Bonuses for Oil Blocks to $10m for Deepwater, $7m for Shallow Water/in /by
[This Day] The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has cut the bonuses payable by awardees in the 2022 and 2024 bid rounds to a maximum of $10 million for deepwater assets and $7 million for shallow water and onshore assets.
Nigeria: How FIRS, Customs, NUPRC Received More Allocation Than States – Report/in /by
[Daily Trust] A report by Agora policy has shown that Nigeria's Cost-of-Collection by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), is bigger than what each state received as federal allocation.
Malawi in mourning following the death of vice-president Saulos Chilima/in /by
Saulos Chilima and nine others died in a plane crash on Monday in a forest in the north of the country.
Displaced Gazans react to ceasefire plan adopted by UN Security Council/in /by
The proposal was announced by U.S. President Joe Biden last month. He presented it as an Israeli proposal, but Israeli PM Netanyahu has publicly disputed key aspects of it. A clear approval of the US-sponsored plan from the warring sides is yet to come.
Palestinian DC Chef and Senegalese Eatery in NOLA win James Beard Awards/in /by
More than 100 restaurants were finalists in 22 categories for the culinary world's equivalent of the Oscars , with a wide diversity of cuisines and chef backgrounds, a recent development after turbulent years marred by a pandemic for the James Beard Foundation .
Pics of the day: June 11, 2024/in /by
Africanews focuses on the most striking images of the day's news.
USA: A new attraction featuring Tiana, Disney’s first Black princess, to open/in /by
'The Princess and the Frog' is a retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. In the 1-hour-37 minute-film finds the lives of arrogant Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana crossing paths.
Poorly paid doctors and nurses flee Africa for Canada/in /by
Cameroon has one of the world's lowest ratios of health workers per capita.
Malawi’s Vice President among 10 confirmed dead in plane crash/in /by
President Lazarus Chakwera announced Tuesday (Jun. 11) in a live address on state television that the wreckage of the plane had been located after a search of more than a day in thick forests and hilly terrain near the northern city of Mzuzu.
New study finds African elephants call each other by unique names/in /by
The names are in the form of complex low rumbles that can be heard over long distances across the savannah.