Nigerian artist Davido wearing a creation by Nigerian designer Ego Monye poses with fans at the Lagos Fashion Week on October 24, 2024. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) Nigerian singer Davido has pledged a sum of ₦300 million to be distributed to orphanages in Nigeria through his foundation. The singer announced his intentions […]
Rising taxes and oil revenues by the Federal Government have boosted its earnings by 76 per cent, from N7.1 trillion in 2022 to N12.5 trillion in 2023. The newly released 2025-2027 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper, obtained by our correspondent from the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, revealed this development. According […]
Monday 18 November 2024 Nigerians suffering, reverse floating of naira, energy cost, Labour urges Tinubu Aiyedatiwa’s victory: INEC, PDP disagree over alleged fraud in Ondo poll Govs threatening Reps over Tinubu VAT bill – Spokesman Dangote, IPMAN sign 240m litres monthly petrol deal FG services IMF, others’ debt with $1.36bn – DMO report Okpebholo, Edo […]
An Officer of Department of State Service, DSS, attached to Kebbi State Command (names witheld), has assaulted a Correspondent of Authority newspaper, Mallam Shuaibu Zubair, when the journalist asked him to pay up his electricity bill. The DSS officer, who got angry because his co-tenants reminded him that he only paid N4,000 out of N5,000 […]
THE Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says more than 3,767 people lost their lives in 7,011 road traffic crashes (RTC) in the country between January and September, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. Corps Marshal of FRSC, Shehu Mohammed, stated this in Bauchi on Sunday, during the flag-off of the 2024 Road Traffic […]
The Minister of State for Defense, Bello Matawalle, has dragged two northern journalists, Shu’aibu Mungadi and Tijjani Ramalan to court for alleged defamation and malicious reportage. Other respondents in the suit marked K/M2102/2024 before Justice Musa Ahmad of Kano State High Court, Bichi Division, include the employers of the two Journalists, Vision Media Services Ltd, […]
Ondo State Governor, Mr Lucky Ayedatiwa, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. He was returned elected by the Independent National Electoral Commission after winning the governorship poll in all 18 Local Government Areas of the state. Ayedatiwa, who won in Ese Odo Local Government Area in the last LG […]
[ Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the Ondo State governorship election. Aiyedatiwa defeated the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Mr Agboola Ajayi, securing the majority of votes across the state’s 18 local government areas. Why we abandoned our respective businesses to take up keke riding — Mr & Mrs […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to “stop using the NBC Act and the Nigeria Broadcasting Code to impose fines, threaten to impose sanctions, harass and intimidate the broadcast stations and other independent media houses in the country.” The court declared that “the NBC and its agents […]
The Chairman of the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission, Babatunde Osibodu, declared the All Progressives Congress the winner of the Saturday Local Government elections in the state in the early hours of Sunday. Osibodu said the “APC won all 20 local government seats and 236 councillorship wards in the state.” He announced this at the […]
