Nigeria’s U-19 national volleyball team have retained the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) title. The Nigerian boys defeated Egypt 3-0 on Sunday night to retain the...
Hello, and welcome to the Business Roundup this week. Here, we bring you highlights of events that happened during the week -from the capital market to...
For the third time in eight months, Nigeria is not Africa’s largest oil producer as production fell to 972,394 barrels per day in August. This was...
The World Bank Group’s President, David Malpass, has stated that the bank is prepared to assist Nigeria in phasing off regressive fuel subsidies while enhancing social...
A report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has put the number of out of school children in Nigeria under President Muhammadu...
Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has accused Garba Shehu, a media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, and others around the presidency of not telling the...
African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, on Thursday, condemned the way purported thieves are honoured with different leadership positions in the country. In a...
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HEAD or tail Nigeria is not likely to remain the same after the 2023 general elections. Though you could say that given the nature of the...
Nigerians were made to pay more to move from one location to another in July, regardless of the mode of transportation. This was disclosed in the...
Hello, and welcome to the Business Roundup this week. Here, we bring you highlights of events that happened during the week -from the capital market to...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has bemoaned the manifold challenges rocking Nigeria, blaming the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for lack...
To reduce its losses from Nigeria, Emirates Airlines on Thursday announced that it was suspending all its flights in and out of the country. The suspension...
The United Kingdom has launched a developing country trading scheme (DCTS) that will see Nigeria and others export to the country duty-free from 2023. The British...
Election season in Nigeria is an interesting time. It is, expectedly, characterised by heated contestations and conversations that are inherently partisan. It is also often marked...
In early June 2022, 40 people died, including children, in a mass shooting and bomb attack on a Catholic church in the city of Owo, southwestern...
Nigeria’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) otherwise known as the headline inflation sustained its upward movement as it rose to 19.64 percent in July 2022 on a...
The Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, on Friday described Nigeria as a country wrecked by inexperienced leaders. The governor, who spoke at an event organised by...
Amid lingering dollar scarcity, Nigeria’s foreign exchange for food, fuel and other imports jumped by 45 per cent in the first half of this year compared...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that Nigeria cannot stop burrowing, especially when it is necessary as it is part of fiscal responsibility. The...
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a former President and past military ruler of Nigeria, has lamented the present state of the nation, noting that anyone who says Nigeria...
According to International Trade Centre data, Nigeria spent $2.35 billion on telephone imports during a three-year period. The data shows the country spent $807.95 million on...
Nigeria has moved up on the World Bank’s top 10 International Development Association (IDA) borrowers’ list. In its newly released audited account, for the Fiscal Year...
Lead negotiator and media consultant to Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, Malam Tukur Mamu, has expressed pessimism about the ability of the Federal Government to curb the widespread...
The founding fathers of politics in Nigeria came with some ideals girding them. To begin with, one would discover that almost all of them were lawyers...
Nigerians have taken to social media to lament the Federal Government’s latest gesture to the neighboring country, Niger Republic. The Federal government through the Minister of...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has threatened to petition the National Judicial Council (NJC) to censure Akwa Ibom Chief Judge, Ekaette Obot over her one-month prison...
President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that no one nation can effectively address the problems caused by global insecurity alone. The President made this statement on Tuesday...
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has vowed to fight and die for Nigeria if a war should break out in the...
I stumbled on a story in the Nigerian media which says that the National Assembly is planning to consider no fewer than 63 bills for the...
The Nigeria Security Tracker (NST), has raised an alarm over the violent killing of no fewer than 5,222 Nigerians across the country between January and June...
Atiku Abubakar, pesidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed disappointment over Nigeria’s current debt profile and its attendant implications for the country. Atiku...
The National Bureau if Statistics on Friday revealed that the nation’s headline inflation rate increased to 18.60 per cent in June, up from 17.71 per cent...
The Super Falcons of Nigeria will today (Thursday) be facing the Lionesses of Cameroon in the quarterfinal of the ongoing Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON)....
Angola has retained its position as the biggest oil producer in Africa for the second straight month. New data released by the Organization of the Petroleum...
Nigeria’s power sector peak electricity generation continued to struggle to stay above 4000 megawatts, despite huge energy demand from Nigerians in the face of petrol scarcity...
Nigeria women’s senior football team, the Super Falcons thrashed Burundi 4-0 in their final group game at the ongoing Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON). The...
The Super Falcons of Nigeria have revived their hopes of advancing to the next round at the ongoing Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) after securing...
EVEN countries that are formally at war do not routinely lose as many as 30 combatants in one fell swoop through an ambush by a supposed...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has reacted to a letter by five United States Senators calling for the re-designation of Nigeria as a...
Worried by a spate of recent violence and killings targeted at Christians and churches in Nigeria, five United States Senators have demanded that the country should...
The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) has revealed that in 10 years Nigeria flared natural gas worth over $13.3bn (N4 trillion). The figure...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday blamed religious leaders for creating tensions in the country. Osinbajo, according to a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on...
The Nigeria Basketball Federation has released a 12-man roster for the third window of the FIBA African World Cup qualifiers in Kigali, Rwanda between June 27...
The Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports Development Sunday Dare will host the WAFU B U17 champions, the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria to a grand reception...
Global crude oil price went down -0.68% as Russia and European Union readjust to the restriction placed on the former. On Thursday evening, oil price depreciated...
Nigeria has climbed three places from 146th to the 143rd position in the 2022 Global Peace Index out of 163 independent nations and territories, in a...
The nation’s pension assets have hit N14.06 trillion at the end of April 2022, according to the latest monthly figures of performance of the industry released...
The John MacArthur Foundation, a private foundation that gives grants and investments to support non-profit organizations in over 50 countries around the world, including Nigeria, has...
The United States Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, will begin a two-day visit to Nigeria on Thursday. A statement issued on Wednesday by the...
