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Caltanissetta Caltanissetta Italy Magazine The town of Caltanissetta in Sicily, Italy, have opened the doors of its vacant homes to asylum seekers, who have crossed the Mediterranean from Libya. In another region in the south of Italy called Molise, new comers including Nigerian migrants will be given €700 to stay in one of its villages for three months, according to The GuardianUK. These persons are, however, mandated to open a business and the population of each village is to be kept under 2,000. “We wanted to do more; we wanted people to invest here. They can open any sort of activity: a bread shop, a stationery shop, a restaurant, anything. “It’s a way to breathe life into our towns while also increasing the population. “If we had offered funding, it would have been yet another charity gesture,” Donato Toma, President of Molise, said. Toma said if a village can keep its population under 2,000, they will be given €10,000 per month to build infrastructure and hold cultu

The Nigerian Natural Liquefied Gas LTD has signed a letter of intent for the engineering, procurement and construction of its long held up Train Seven project. In a statement released by the company on Wednesday, it said that the $10bn project will be executed by a consortium of Italian firm Saipem, Japan’s Chiyoda and South Korea’s Daewoo. The statement reads, “The project will form part of the investment of over $10bn including the upstream scope of the LNG value chain, thereby boosting the much needed Foreign Direct Investment profile of Nigeria.” Managing Director of NLNG, Tony Atta, said in 2018 that the Final Investment Decision would be made in the fourth quarter of that year. This did not however, materialize. According to the release, the project will have a four to five-year execution time after the signing of the FID. The project is expected to add an extra 8 million tons per annum of gas to the 22 mtpa currently exported by the company. Oil News AddThis : 

A clamp down on pubs would soon begin mostly in Government Reserved Areas in Ondo State. Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development in the state, Rasheed Badmus, disclosed this on Wednesday. Badmus said the decision to demolish such facilities was occasioned by rising cases of insecurity in the state. He said, “All pubs in Alagbaka and Ijapo areas would soon be demolished and we have already marked them. “We have visited and served all of them quit notice that we will not tolerate any attachment in our GRAs. “We noticed that those engaging in this illegal activities failed to respond and we need to take prompt action. “After drinking, they always terrorise the area, we have given them notice for over 10 months now.” Badmus further explained that the state government will not pay any compensation to owners of structures being used as pubs. Politics News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from All Content

Reactions have continued to trail the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja upholding the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 2019 elections. Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, had filed a petition challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission’s announcement of Buhari as winner of the election. But following Wednesday’s verdict by the tribunal, former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode tweeting @realFFK, wondered why Nigerians were surprised at the outcome of the tribunal. He alleged that Buhari rigged the courts in his favour. He said, “If anyone is surprised by today's ruling in the @Atiku/@MBuhari case, then they still don't understand the nature of the beast we are fighting and the gravity of the situation we are in. “They didn't just rig the election, they rigged the courts too! They control all three arms of government.” Using a biblical illustration, Senator Shehu Sani c

No fewer than 10 women including a four-year-old baby have been released by repentant bandits in Katsina State, a statement by the state government said on Wednesday. The government is currently engaged in dialogue with bandits terrorising Katsina in order to restore peace and normalcy to the affected areas. It was gathered that the victims regained their freedom few hours after the government released seven bandits, who had been in detention. The statement issued by Director of Press in the office of the Secretary to the Katsina State Government, Mr Abdullahi Yar’adua, said that those released were kidnapped two weeks ago from Shimfida Village in Jibia Local Government Area. Governor Aminu Masari had in the last one week been meeting with the bandits to broker agreement for lasting peace in the state. The council areas affected by the activities of bandits are Dandume, Sabuwa, Faskari, Kankara, Safana, Danmusa, Batsari and Jibiya. Insurgency News AddThis :  Original A