Japanese car maker Toyota revealed its plan on Tuesday to roll out next-generation battery electric vehicles globally. A full lineup of BEVs is scheduled to be launched in 2026. The automotive company noted that by 2030, 1.7 million units out of 3.5 million overall, will be provided by its BEV factory. Through technologies such as the integration of next-generation batteries and sonic technology, the company projects to achieve a vehicle cruising range of 1,000 kilometres. Takero Kato, BEV Factory President at Toyota, said: “The next-generation battery EVs will adopt new batteries, through which we are determined to become a world…
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The outgoing Majority Leader of the House, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, has nominated Tajudeen Abbas for Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives. Abbas is the choice candidate of the All Progressives Congress, while Ado-Doguwa is a speakership aspirant who stepped down for the party’s candidate. Nnolim Nnaji seconded the motion.
A former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has emerged as the Senate President of the 10th Assembly. Akpabio, who is the preferred candidate of the All Progressives Congress, was paired with the senator representing Kano South, Jibrin Barau, who emerged as the Deputy Senate President. After a quick recess, the Clerk declared Akpabio as the Senate President having garnered 63 votes leaving his rival to 46 votes. While the former governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari, is running as the Chief Whip of the ninth Senate, Orji Kalu, is running as deputy. Against the announced time of 10 a.m.,…
Former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has said that democracy in the country is still in bondage despite the end of the military administration in 1999. This is just as the former Vice President noted that what the country is currently enjoying is a return to civil rule rather than democracy. Atiku stated this in a Facebook post on his timeline on Monday to mark the 30th anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by Bashorun Moshood Abiola but annulled by the military junta of…
The Labour Party presidential candidate during February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, has claimed that Nigeria’s democracy is “deeply troubled”. In a statement to commemorate June 12, the former Anambra State governor said the country is in search of “solutions to too many basic problems”. According to him, we are now in an era where these foundational pillars of democracy are undermined by prevalent impunity and pervasive violence and bloodletting. He, however, said he was committed to a New Nigeria. The full statement read, “Today is June 12, June 12 marked in our dear country as Democracy Day. It is…
The National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria has expressed its willingness to partner with the governor Uba Sani-led administration in Kaduna in reviving the moribund textile industries in the state. The President of the Textile Workers Union, Comrade John Adaji, who stated this in Kaduna on Monday while congratulating the governor, noted that revamping the ailing textile industries would ensure sustainable peace and security in the state. He also added that when the textile industries are functional, the army of unemployed youths roaming the streets will be gainfully engaged, and the state will rid itself of…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has said the Department of State Services lacks the constitutional power to investigate and prosecute the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. Falana, in a message sent to our correspondent on Sunday, said Emefiele should be transferred to the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which, according to him, has the legal right to prosecute Emefiele. “A few months ago, the State Security Service leveled grave allegations of terrorism financing, money laundering, and other economic crimes against Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. At…
Silvio Berlusconi, who dominated Italian public life for decades as a billionaire media mogul, businessman and prime minister, has died aged 86. The larger-than-life character, who once compared himself to Jesus, was Italy’s longest serving premier but was also plagued by scandal. Despite being diagnosed with leukaemia, he was active in politics to the end as a senator and partner in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing government. Berlusconi also wielded huge influence through his television and newspaper interests — he effectively invented commercial TV in Italy — his ownership of AC Milan football club, and his sheer wealth, as Italy’s…
Nigeria lost $46.16bn to crude oil theft between 2009 and 2020, while it lost $10.7bn annually to subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, the Energy and Natural Resources subcommittees of the Advisory Council of President Bola Tinubu, has revealed. A summation of the amounts lost to oil theft and subsidy indicated that the country lost a total of $56.86bn, going by figures released in the Policy Advisory Council Report, dated May 2023, which was prepared when Tinubu was still President-elect. On highlights of economic and sector challenges in the report, the council also stated that $70bn worth of…
Experts projected that the Dangote refinery would spur the growth of real estate along the Lekki-Epe area of Lagos State. The Chief Executive Officer of UACN Property Development Company Plc, Odunayo Ojo, said this in a chat with our correspondent. Ojo said, “It will have a net positive impact. That is a massive infrastructure. The first thing that is going to happen is that it is going to create an ecosystem of demand. Thousands of workers are going to be working there directly, and hundreds of thousands of workers are going to be working there indirectly. “Someone is going to…