This development comes after President Bola Tinubu met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, on the sidelines of the joint Arab-Islamic Summit. Nigeria is seeking a $5 billion trade facility from Saudi Arabia to boost its economic reform program. This development comes after President Bola Tinubu met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman…
Nigeria’s worsening security crisis took a dangerous turn in October 2024 as almost 1,000 people were abducted, while over 1,500 residents lost their lives across the country. The data is contained in the ‘October 2024 Nigeria Security Report’ by Beacon Security and Intelligence Limited, BSIL, a security risk management and intelligence consulting company. The report…
Dr. Chika Benson Abazu, the Commissioner for Transport in Imo State, has shared key plans and initiatives aimed at transforming the state’s transportation sector under the leadership of Governor Hope Uzodimma. Speaking in a recent media interaction at his office in the Imo State Secretariat in Owerri, Abazu outlined several ambitious projects that are aligned…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has apprehended Timber Kesiye Wabote, the former Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), in connection with an alleged $35 million fraud tied to the Brass Project. Sources confirm that Wabote’s arrest is linked to a failed refinery project where $35 million was allocated…
The National Population Commission, NPC, said it will operate the Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (E-CRVS) system in 141 centres in Lagos State. The Federal Commissioner, NPC, Lagos State, Mrs Saidat Oladunjoye, made this known during the news conference on the Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (E-CRVS) System on Tuesday. Oladunjoye said that…
Mobile phones can be dangerous and cause serious health issues. Sleeping next to your mobile phone can affect you mentally and physically. Before going to bed, you should keep your phone away and avoid anything that could trigger negative emotions. Here are the dangers of sleeping next to the phone: Signal transmission from all phones…
Aloy Ejimakor, the special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Tuesday, said the North has agreed with the agitator that Nigeria has expired. Ejimakor was reacting to a remark credited to the spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Ango Abdullahi, that the unity of Nigeria should be…
The Enugu State Government has condemned the bullying and physical assault of a student at the Federal Government College, Enugu, calling the incident “deeply troubling” and “emotionally distressing.” In a statement issued on Tuesday, the state’s Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ndubueze Mbah, reaffirmed the government’s zero-tolerance stance on bullying, abuse, and any form of dehumanisation…
Adata review for the second quarter debt portfolio of the country released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that the debt owed by every Nigerian on the average stood at N619,501. According to the data published by the Debt Management Office, Nigeria’s public debt stood at N134.297 trillion as of the second…
The Presidency’s statement accused Atiku who unsuccessfully sought the presidency six times of attempting to undermine his administration. It labelled Atiku’s economic proposals as “grand illusions and fantasies.” Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice-President and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dismissed accusations from the President Bola Tinubu’s camp that he…
