Here are the top 10 stories making headlines across the country. 1. Emefiele arraigned, pleads not guilty to printing N684m notes with N18.96bn Godwin Emefiele, the...
The Naira traded for N1, 459.02 to a dollar at the official market on Wednesday. Data from the official trading platform of the FMDQ Exchange revealed...
The Kano State police command on Wednesday confirmed six persons dead in a mosque fire attack at Gadan village in Gezawa Local Government Area of the...
A casual worker at a factory in the Isolo area of Lagos was electrocuted in the company’s premises on Tuesday. The spokesman for the state police...
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the failure of the presidential fleet to perform optimally. The poor condition of the planes in the presidential...
President Bola Tinubu has requested the Senate confirmation of four persons nominated as board members of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Senate President, Godswill...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 23 suspected internet fraudsters in Enugu State. The EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, disclosed...
The Nigerian equities market recorded third consecutive losses this week as investors dropped N73 billion at the close of trading on Wednesday. This followed the dip...
Remittances from Nigerians in Diaspora dropped by $18.9 million in the first quarter of this year. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revealed this in its...
Troops of Sector II Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) have killed one suspected Boko Haram terrorist in an ambush on Litri Island. The island is located...
Police operatives in Kano have arrested the principal suspect behind the early morning mosque explosion in Gadan village in Gezawa local government area of the state....
Gunmen suspected to be bandits reportedly invaded Yar-Malamai village in the Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State and abducted several people on Monday. The victims...
Two members of the Abia State House of Assembly on Wednesday dumped the Young Progressive Party (YPP) for the Labour Party in the state. The lawmakers...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Igbotako Ward II, Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State, has suspended the senator representing Ondo South, Jimoh Ibrahim, for...
The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has disclosed that in April 2024, the headline inflation rate increased by 0.49% points to 33.69% from 33.20% in March...
At least 24 people have been critically injured following an explosion on Wednesday morning at a Mosque at Gadan village in Gezawa local government area of...
Godwin Emefiele, the embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has pleaded not guilty to the allegation of approving the printing of N684.5...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) after a marathon meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday unveiled 21 major policy initiatives. Tinubu’s Special Adviser on...
Nigeria’s average daily crude oil production rose to 1.28 million barrels per day (bpd) in April, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has disclosed. This...
The Nigerian currency, the naira continued its slump against the dollar on Tuesday May 14, 2024 to trade at N1,520/$1 data from the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign...
Here are the top 10 stories making headlines across the country. 1. EFCC files fresh charges against Emefiele over printing of Naira notes The Economic and...
Steak and grills every weekend, a trip to that music festival you always wanted, maybe even owning a place of your own. Those feel like the...
Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna and Egypt’s Dina Meshref reclaimed the ITTF Africa Cup title after winning the 2024 edition at BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda. Aruna, the...
The Senate has resolved to enact a law prescribing stiffer sanctions to stem job racketeering and disregard for the federal character principles in employment. The Chairman,...
The House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes has promised a comprehensive investigation of the activities of a cryptocurrency platform, Binance, in Nigeria. The Chairman of...
Police operatives in Osun have arrested a former bank manager for alleged N650.8 million fraud in the state. The spokesperson for the state police, Yemisi Opalola,...
Multiple explosions were reported at the gas processing plant operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) at Gbarain, Yenagoa local government area of...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday threatened to embark on a fresh strike over the absence of governing councils in all federal universities...
The House of Representatives House Committee on Reformatory Institutions has resolved to push ahead with its bill on the establishment of a trust fund to manage...
The trading losses continued for the second day running as investors lost N132 billion at the end of trading on Tuesday. This followed the dip in...
Subscription to the Federal Government’s bond auction fell to N380.769 billion this month. This was N246.04 billion or 39% lower than the N626.813 billion raised by...
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has made it compulsory for President Bola Tinubu, Vice-President Kashim Shettima, service chiefs, and other Very Important...
President Bola Tinubu has suspended the implementation of the 0.5 percent cybersecurity levy after criticism trailed the announcement. The Minister of information, Mohammed Idris, confirmed this...
At least 14 people died and 75 others were injured when a huge advertisement billboard fell on them in India. The billboard fell amid a heavy...
A political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, on Tuesday declared support for the creation of state police to address Nigeria’s security challenges. Utomi, who spoke with journalists...
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered the Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa to present their defence in the suit filed...
Six more students of the Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Okene, Kogi State, who were abducted by bandits last Friday have been rescued. Commissioner...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed fresh charges against the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, over an...
The report that President Bola Tinubu has now ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to suspend the implementation of the proposed Cybersecurity Levy must come...
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IN light of the challenges facing the Igbo today in Nigeria, the last thing that the beleaguered people should have to contend with is a fractionalised...
A young man was on Monday, arrested with a bomb strapped to his body inside a branch of the UBA bank in the Dadin Kowa area...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has disclosed that the Federal Government may need to raise a supplementary budget to accommodate the proposed minimum wage increase for...
There is no respite yet for the Nigerian currency, the naira as it continued its depreciation against the dollar on Monday May 13, 2024 to trade...
Former Niger Delta militant and founder of the defunct Niger Delta Peoples’ Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, has weighed in on the current political crisis rocking...
Here are the top 10 stories making headlines across the country. 1. Tinubu orders MDAs to buy only CNG vehicles President Bola Tinubu on Monday issued...
Olayemi Cardoso, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has disclosed that members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will do whatever is necessary” to...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to...
KPMG Nigeria has become the latest high-profile organization to kick against the recently introduced cybersecurity levy imposed by the Federal Government. The global Audit, Tax and...
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Joe Ajaero was at the vanguard of the protest organized against the recent hike in electricity tariff at...
After a temporary reprieve, the bears returned to the equities market last week as investors lost N761.40 billion. It would be recalled that the market tumbled...
