President Bola Tinubu has told Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), not to give him free land should he ask for one. Tinubu charged Wike to deliver the Abuja metroline for the good of the city instead. The president spoke in Abuja on Sunday, while declaring open the annual conference of […]
Monday 28 August 2023 Cameroon dam opening: Evacuate to prevent deaths, FG, states warn flood-prone communities Servicing debt with 90% revenue path to destruction — Tinubu Senator’s aide: Murder cases take time to resolve, police reply family Cash shortage: Bank borrowing from CBN hits N12tn Food, textile, 24 sectors lost over N1tn in Q2 […]
The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) may have finally fixed Saturday, September 16 as date for the much-awaited judgement on the petitions challenging the pronouncement of Bola Tinubu as winner of the February 25 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This is coming four weeks after the Tribunal reserved judgement. A […]
Two children in Anambra State have been reported dead in a recent flood incident in Nkwele Awka, Awka South LGA of Anambra State. The children between the ages of four and seven lost their lives at two separate locations in the area. One of the kids was swept away by the flood while disposing […]
President Bola Tinubu has said the country could not continue to service its debt with 90 percent of its revenue. He noted that the country was headed for destruction should that continue. Tinubu spoke during the Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association on Sunday in Abuja. He said his administration must make difficult […]
The food, textile, and 24 other sectors of the economy lost over N1tn in the second quarter of 2023. This is as twenty-six sectors of the economy shrank in Q2 based on an analysis of the Gross Domestic Product data from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics. These sectors lost N1.16tn in economic value as […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has asked Nigerians to reject any parcel given to them to deliver abroad when travelling. Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, in a post on Sunday on his X page, uploaded a video clip of how an illicit drug was discovered in a male leather slippers. He said the […]
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the last general election, Mr Peter Obi has lamented the neglect of government in supporting commerce, industry and wealth creation, describing the idea of doing business in Nigeria as suicidal. Obi further lamented that other companies in parts of Asia that were quoted along with Nigerian […]
The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, has called on the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government not to renew the pipeline surveillance contract awarded to ex-militant leader, Chief Ekpemupolo Government, popularly known as Tompolo. The group gave the advice in Kaduna in a statement signed by its Secretary General, Mustapha Hassan on Sunday. […]
The new Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, has said that she is a corps member following the call for her removal over her active status in the scheme. Musawa insisted that she had not broken any part of the laws of the National Youths Service Corps in a statement titled, […]
