NIGERIA / WEST AFRICA

Four of Africa’s leading water experts will participate tomorrow, Tuesday 23rd June 2020, in the third edition of the Water Security Series, a meeting of global analysts on the future of water conflicts. The event will be held by videoconference from Johannesburg, Lagos and Valencia, Spain. Greg Mills, President of The Brenthurst ...

  Lubcon, a pan-African lubricants manufacturing company, with operations across the continent, has reopened for business after the Covid-19 lockdown. Production activities have also started at its headquarters in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. The Managing Director, Lubcon Nigeria Limited, Mr. Taiye Williams, who confirmed this, Friday, in a chat with ...

With its sturdy and high-end design, its comfort and its outstanding performance, the Renault Koleos has successfully established itself as an International reference in the large SUV segment. New Koleos represents the ‘ne plus ultra’ of Renault’s high-end range, with the Senior Vice-President of Corporate Design, Laurens van den Acker’s ...

  While the bakkie may have its origins as a practical work vehicle, the modern iteration has come to represent something far more significant for car buyers today. The Ford Ranger is not only a phenomenal workhorse – trusted by government departments and primary industry operators globally – but it ...

  Mazda Motor Corporation last week unveiled the all-new Mazda BT-50 at a virtual world premiere.  Fully redesigned for the first time in nine years, the all-new Mazda BT-50 is supplied by Isuzu Motor Limited on an OEM basis. The vehicle will go on sale under the Mazda brand name ...

    The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) Governing Council has approved 168 new Standards for publication and dissemination to various sectors of the nation’s economy in furtherance of the Federal Government’s economic diversification policy. Rising from its virtual meeting, chaired from Abuja by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of ...

Range Rover hit a major milestone on Wednesday, 17 June, 2020, as it celebrated five decades of pioneering innovation, peerless refinement and unparalleled all-terrain capability with the introduction of the new Range Rover Fifty.  The original luxury SUV has defined the market since 17 June 1970 and, five decades on, the Range ...

    The new Lexus IS made a debut on Monday at a virtual launch ceremony after the  initial postponement . Since the debut of the first generation in 1999, the Lexus IS has pursued the fun of driving unique to compact rear-wheel-drive sports sedans. The all-new IS takes high-level driving ...

Have you ever jumped from a significant height with straight legs? It’s not a comfortable feeling is it? That’s because there’s nothing to absorb the shock that’s been created, and so that shock has the potential to cause great damage. That’s why bent legs help: they help to absorb the ...

  Austin Avuru, CEO, Seplat Petroleum Development Company speaks with Oxford Business Group on the impact of Covid-19 and falling oil prices on Nigeria’s economy. Excerpts;   How is Nigeria’s oil and gas industry faring in the face of the current pandemic? The combination of the current pandemic and the ...