Former Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, says the failure of security agencies to stamp out kidnapping and banditry exposes collusion between criminals and security agents. The lawmaker, who has been representing Abia South Senatorial District since 2007 in the National Assembly, sais this on a television Progranme on Friday. He lamented that despite the many…
The international friendly between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Albiceleste of Argentina will now hold in the United States of America. The friendly will take place at a yet to be announced date in March. The game was earlier scheduled to hold in China but was cancelled following a row between Argentina superstar, Lionel…
Nigeria’s unemployment rate increased significantly in the third quarter of 2023, rising by 0.8% from Q2 2023. In its ‘Nigeria Labour Force Survey for the third quarter of 2023’ report published on Monday, the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics said the country’s unemployment rate rose sharply from the 4.2% recorded in Q2 2023 to 5.0% in…
The cement price in Nigeria rose by 100 per cent in the last three years amid soaring inflation and hardship.Cement price leapfrogged from 3,300 and 3,500 per 50 kg bag in 2021 to a record high N7,000 in February 2024. Last year, the Cement Producers Association of Nigeria warned that the federal government’s plan to…
Nigerians are ordinarily the most patriotic set of people any country can boast of. You can hardly find a Nigerian who doesn’t genuinely love Nigeria and who wouldn’t want to remain a Nigerian. But, at every turn, their hearts are broken by those who have the responsibility to make them love the country more; the…
Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu’s on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga has said that Nigeria is still one of the safest places to live in the world. He stated this in an opinion piece he released saying that going by figures and data available, Nigeria is safer than South Africa and the United States…
The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun, has assured of a China-Nigeria collaboration for Nigerian products and commodities to be made available in Chinese markets within the next five years. The Ambassador made this known in an interview on Saturday during a temple fair organized to mark the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year on Saturday…
South African goalkeeper, Ronwen Williams has been speaking about the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, semifinal pairing with Nigeria. William saved as much as four penalties as South Africa beat Cape Verde 2-1 on penalties in the quarterfinal at the Charles Konan Banny Stadium in Yamoussoukro on Saturday. The Super Eagles and the Bafana Bafana…
Issa Sy from Senegal will be the referee at the centre, when Nigeria play Angola in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final on Friday. Sy will work alongside his compatriots Djibril Camara and Nouha Bangoura. Camara and Bangoura are assistant referee 1 and assistant referee 2 respectively, alongside Mauritanian official Abdel Aziz Bouh as…
The Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reform Committee, Taiwo Oyedele said about 81% of Nigerians within the employment status are not engaged in any productive sector benefiting the economy. He said this during the Africa Trade and Investment Summit held on Thursday, where Oyedele compared Nigeria’s unemployment rate to that of the…
