23 Suspects Are Detained By Lagos police For Alleged Electoral Crimes.
According to the Lagos State Police Command, 23 people were detained during the presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday…
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Akpabio won in the Senate election in Akwa Ibom North West.
In the wee hours of Monday, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced that Senator Godswill Akpabio of the All Progressives…
Nigeria Elections – Labour Party secures the seat for Eti-Osa Reps while Banky W and Obanikoro Lose
The Eti-Osa Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives has been awarded to Mr. Thaddeus Attah of the Labour…
Bill To End Pension System Approved By National Assembly; PFAs Terminated
After operating the Contributory Pension Plan for 18 years, a measure to exempt its employees from the program has been…
Group Calls for Calm And Peaceful Elections
A few hours before the 2023 general election in Nigeria, Brothers Across Nigeria (BAN), an advocacy and justice-focused worldwide organization,…
Elections Won’t Cause A Network Shutdown, Says NCC
There won’t be a telecommunications outage for the polls, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission. it declared that every network…
Insecurity May Make Poverty And Unemployment Worse.
According to a report by Augusto&Co, a research, credit ratings, and risk management company, insecurity issues in the country that…
Nigeria’s Economy Grows Slowly as the Oil and Industry Sectors Decline.
Nigeria’s economic growth dropped in the fourth quarter to 3.52% from 3.98% a year earlier (NGGDPQ=ECI), the statistics office reported,…
Awosika Is Appointed Matron By An NGO
The Chairman of Access Bank and Honourable Consul to Czech Republic, Dr. Mrs Ajoritsedere Awosika, has been appointed matron and…
Travel Agencies Should Give Foreign Airlines Discounted Rates.
Mr. Yinka Ladipo, the Chief Executive Officer of Dart Logistics Limited and Finance Secretary of the National Association of Nigerian…
NRC’s Insistence On Cash Transactions Causes Passengers To Complain
The Nigerian Railway Corporation has insisted on cash payment for its operations despite the deployment of cashless payment systems across…
Lagos Launches Aerial Mapping
A Cessna 406 aircraft has been used by the Lagos State administration to map the state from the air.The effort,…
Conflicts Between The FG And States Regarding Salary Reviews
Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, the governor of Ondo State and head of the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum, recently spoke out against the…
LCCI Tells FG That Rising Inflation Will Make Poverty Worse.
The prolonged increase in the overall price level in recent years has weakened some people’s purchasing power, the Lagos Chamber…
Buhari Instructs Nigeria’s Central Bank to Give Emirates Additional Cash.
The central bank in Nigeria has been instructed by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to boost the amount of foreign currency…
Nigerian Inflation Continues in January, Spurred by Food Prices.
According to its statistics office, Nigeria’s inflation resumed in January and reached 21.82% in annual terms. This increase was mostly…
Members of the US Congress want to Stop the $1 billion Nigerian Weapons Purchase.
Following revelations of an illegal abortion program and the targeted slaughter of infants by the Nigerian military, two members of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee urged President Joe Biden to cancel a roughly $1 billion arms deal with Nigeria. The Congress members said, “There are rumors of weaponry captured by terrorists, and the help supplied by Washington so far has done little to settle the 14year struggle between the Nigerian military and Islamist insurgents in the country’s northeast.” Therefore, the legislators stated in the letter, “we believe continuing to move forward with the $1 billion arms transaction would be exceedingly irresponsible and we encourage the Administration to revoke it. After lawmakers on both sides of the aisle halted the agreement…
President Buhari Grants a 60-day Extension to Turn in Outdated Currency.
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria granted the go-ahead for the central bank to add another 60 days to the deadline…
According To Kyari, The Demand For Energy In Nigeria And Other Countries Would Increase By 35%.
According to Mr. Mele Kolo Kyari, Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, they predicted rise…
After The Supreme Court’s Decision, The FG And CBN Will Take Action.
The Presidency has stated that because the Supreme Court would hear the case ,neither the Federal Government nor the Central…
Minister Rejects Request To Create New Agencies
The Federal Government has rejected a proposal from the National Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies to establish new organizations…
Untapped Global Introduces an Investment Vehicle for Electric Mobility.
A growing group of partners has backed the establishment of Untapped Global’s Climate Action Initiative, an investment firm that specializes…
Governors Make a Move To Delay Supreme Court Reversal Of The Currency Swap Until After The Election.
Ondo, Kano, and Ekiti states have joined the lawsuit that Kaduna, Kogi, and Zamfara states originally filed, and Rivers state…
No Funding Available to Create or Support New Agencies – FG.
The Federal Government claimed that there were already too many agencies in Nigeria and that it lacked the resources to…
Nigeria Farmers Protest a 50% Drop in Food Prices.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has highlighted near-term downside risks resulting from Nigeria’s elevated inflation, high debt-servicing costs, external sector…
As the Shortage of New Naira Notes Remains, more Banks Close.
According to research by The PUNCH, more banks have started closing their branches as the currency shortage worsens. Lengthy lines…
Nigeria: Adamant Oil Marketers Claim that N195 per litre is Unachievable.
According to oil marketers, lineups were still common in many parts of Nigeria, with the exception of Abuja, where they…
FG Attributes Nigeria’s Low Imports on the Benin Republic.
The Nigeria Customs Service has said that the Benin Republic trade policy was hostile to Nigerian traders. The Customs Area…
Petrol and Naira Crisis: TUC Gives FG 7-day Deadline.
The Federal Government has been given a seven-day deadline by the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) to find a…
By 2025, Nigeria may become Africa’s Largest Oil Refiner – Report.
According to research, Nigeria might by 2025 become the largest oil-refining hub in Africa. This information was provided in a…