Federal Government on Friday said there can be no evacuation of Nigerians in Ukraine until the airports in the European country, which is under attack by Russia, are reopened. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in the early hours of Thursday, had ordered an invasion of Ukraine. The invasion was marked with shelling and rocket attacks on several Ukrainian major cities, including the capital, Kyiv, leading to dozens of deaths. The invasion, which has continued, has created widespread panic and seen many fleeing Ukraine. Countries such as India, South Africa, among others had announced the facilitation of the evacuation of their…

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that opened with air and missile strikes on Ukrainian military facilities before troops and tanks rolled across the borders from the north, east and south. The Ukrainian military fought back on multiple fronts. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address early Friday that 137 people, both servicemen and civilians, have been killed and hundreds more wounded. A senior U.S. defense official said Russia may be intent on seizing Kyiv, the capital, and other key cities and ultimately installing a more friendly government. As Ukrainian forces fought back and civilians piled into trains…

The war in Ukraine could have a devastating effect on some African states, threatening their economies and seeing governments come under diplomatic pressure to take sides in the escalating feud between Russia and Western powers. As an article in South Africa's Daily Maverick news site noted, war in far-away Europe will "be felt in every village and town of South Africa and the world". "Even before the first missiles have been fired this war has taken a dreadful toll: diverting billions of dollars into rearmament and away from tackling poverty, pandemics, education, inequality and the burgeoning climate crisis in a…

Federal, state and local government areas have shared a total of N574.668 billion as revenue for January, 2022. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a virtual meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) for February, 2022. The N574.668bn total distributable revenue comprises distributable statutory revenue of N291.400bn; distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N178.066bn and exchange gain of N5.202bn and non-mineral revenue of N100bn. In January 2022, the total deductions for the cost of the collection were N25.421bn and the total deductions for statutory transfers, refunds and savings were N92.767bn. The balance in…