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HOME Ethiopia's government has started distributing rations of wheat and oil to people facing hunger in the north and northeastern parts of the country. Secretary of the Ethiopian Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Committee, Mitiku Kassa says they are now supplying 15kg of wheat and a half litre of cooking oil per adult in the areas hit by drought conditions. More than 8 million people require urgent food assistance, and the Ethiopian government says there is enough food aid to feed them through December. The government recently appealed to the international community for 596 million US dollars (£392 million) in food assistance. The UN says the scale of the developing emergency exceeds resources available so far. The food insecurity is fuelled by the failure of Ethiopia's spring rains that resulted in poor crop yields.

Former Lagos state Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget under Babatunde Fashola's government, Ben Akabueze has come out to defend his former boss in the N78 million website scandal which broke weeks ago. In an interview with Kadaira Ahmed of Straight Talk With Kaidaia, Ben Akabueze says they ran a very detailed government that checked against fraud and that if the formergovernor wanted to steal, it wouldn't be N78 million "I think it would be useful for people to look at the full scope of the project and then make a determination about whether or not it did not represent value for money. For me, we ran an annual budget of over N400bn. Click Here To Register and Get Paid For Clicking Links And Answering Questions!! I think that if he (Fashola) really wanted to steal money, it wouldn't be N78m out of over N400bn that he had access to. Of course, every kobo of public funds must be accounted for and I hope in the future, we can get the full facts and it w...

Zambian power authorities have planned to triple power output to 6,000 megawatts (MW) in 2 years through expansion of solar energy by foreign investors, the head of its investment agency said. The continent's second biggest copper producer where the bulk of its generation capacity of 2,200 MW of power is water-powered has been battling with erratic power supply. The power problems and copper price slide have driven the kwacha currency to record lows amid a selloff in commodity-linked currencies as top copper consumer China's economy has slowed. Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) Director General Patrick Chisanga said he had held "very positive" talks with an unnamed German company aiming to invest $500 million in a solar power plant but did not disclose its planned location. [Register] Click Here To Buy Goods, Sell Goods And Also Make Money Referring People To Buy And Sell "It is planned that they could produce about 400 megawatts of power in two steps,...

The Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, on Thursday said Nigeria’s Excess Crude Account as at 15th of September stands at $2.257 billion. Briefing State House correspondents after the National Economic Council (NEC), Governor Ajimobi said states of the federation have started benefiting from the Special Intervention Fund approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. The NEC meeting, which was presided over by the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo, was briefed on the bail out by the Central Bank Governor (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele. Mr Emefiele said 18 states had been able to draw from the fund, while a number of other states are being processed for the soft loan facility. The soft loan facility is part of President Buhari’s relief package designed to help states pay backlog of salaries and also ease their financial challenges caused by the drop in federal allocation. NEC also received an ongoing report from its ad-hoc committee of five governors on the management of ECA and federat...

Four people were killed in Port Harcourt as a result of powerful explosion on Thursday evening. The most likely cause of the explosion was the gas leakage. According to the reports from the scene, a gas cylinder used for welding exploded around 5 pm in a workshop situated near the ABC Bus park at the crossing of Eliozu road and the East-West road. Hearing the explosion residents, motorists and passers-by ran for cover. Two people were killed at the spot, with their legs severed in the blast. Another person injured in the explosion died on the way to the nearest hospital, where the fourth victim died having not received the necessary assistance, while medical staff on duty demanded to pay N35,000 to start his treatment. Rivers police spokesman, Muhammad Kidaya Ahmad, confirmed the incident, but couldn’t provide any additional details to the information gathered by the press. Meanwhile, Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El- Rufai, has sympathised with the direct victims o...