Beyond the Headlines
Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that he and his team have a huge task of bringing down the structure of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his state. Wike made this known during the commissioning of the Ogbunabali Sandfilled Area in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Tuesday. The governor affirmed he […]
A video of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, supporting Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in Nigeria, has been circulating on social media, especially WhatsApp. The Voice TV NG, a YouTube channel presumed to be the first publisher of the now viral video, captioned it “World Richest Man, Elon Musk Pledge Support […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has read out a riot act to local airline operators in the country over N19bn in debts. The Director General of NCAA, Capt Musa Nuhu, on Tuesday, threatened that the aviation regulator will not hesitate to suspend the Certificates of Air Operator’s defaulting airlines. He spoke at a briefing […]
Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer (GCEO), Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, says the country will stop importing petroleum products by mid-2023. Kyari spoke at a press briefing at the state house in Abuja on Tuesday. He said the combination of output from the Dangote refinery (scheduled to begin next year) and state-owned […]
Twenty-eight sectors of the economy declined in the second quarter of 2022 as real Gross Domestic Product shrunk by N63.49bn quarter-on-quarter. While real GDP grew by 3.54 per cent year-on-year in Q2 2022, it declined by 0.37 per cent from the N17.35tn that was recorded in the first quarter of 2021 to N17.29tn in […]
On Monday, a federal high court in Abuja dismissed the case of the federal government which sought to extradite Abba Kyari, suspended deputy commissioner of police, to the United States for criminal prosecution. The court, in its judgment, attributed the failure of the case to the negligence of Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused some members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s executive council of peddling lies against the union in the course of their negotiation. The union expressed disappointment over alleged lies told by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige and his counterpart, who […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross said more than 25,000 persons are missing in Nigeria as a result of the ongoing insurgency in the North-East region of the country. The head of the delegation of the ICRC, Yann Bonzon said this is in addition to the over 2,000 cases of missing persons the […]
A former Governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi, has asked Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi; and his New Nigeria Peoples Party’s counterpart, Rabiu Kwankwaso to swallow their personal ambition and return to the Peoples Democratic Party just as the Senator representing Kano Central, Ibrahim Shekarau, left the New Nigeria Peoples Party and rejoined […]
The bank said this in a corporate filing on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) signed by Ezinwa Unuigboje, the company secretary. Fidelity Bank said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had issued “No Objection” letter for the deal. It also added that the transaction is still subject to the approval of the Prudential Regulatory […]
