May 24, 2023
Nigeria: Govt to Support Livestock Farmers With Funds to Boost Productivity
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, yesterday said the federal government through the Bank of Agriculture (BoA), will provide financial… Read more »
Nigeria: CSOs Hail Tinubu, APC for Reconsidering Zoning in Favour of North Central
A Coalition of Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of Conference of Nigeria Civil Rights Activists (CNCRA), has described as a welcome development, media reports that the… Read more »
Nigeria: My Govt Invested in Infrastructure for Economic Growth, Prosperity - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that making infrastructure development the focus of his administration was a deliberate policy to create wealth and make poverty alleviation… Read more »
May 23, 2023
Nigeria: Like Senate, House Passes Independent Candidacy Bill
The House of Representatives at plenary Tuesday passed a bill seeking to provide for independent candidacy in presidential, governorship, national and state assembly, as well as… Read more »
Nigeria: Presidency Releases List of Buhari's Key Achievements in Eight Years
The presidency through the Presidential Communications Team(PCT) has released a list of President Muhammadu Buhari's major achievements in key sectors , including on security and… Read more »
Nigeria: Buhari Inaugurates 2nd Niger Bridge, Six Other Legacy Projects Today
President Muhammadu Buhari will today inaugurate seven legacy projects completed by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing across the country as part of his administration's… Read more »
Nigeria: U.S.-Based Nigerian Doctor Asks Supreme Court to Delay Tinubu's Inauguration
A United State based medical doctor and presidential aspirant of African Renaissance Party (ARP) in the 2011 presidential election, Dr Adah Obekpa has approached the Supreme Court… Read more »
Nigeria: AfDB Earmarks $28m for Fertilizer Financing to Small Holder Farmers in 2023
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved $11.7 million budgetary allocation to the African Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) for its 2023… Read more »
May 22, 2023
Nigeria: Seven African Presidents Join Buhari to Open Dangote Refinery, Continent's Game Changer
Lagos, Nigeria's commercial nerve centre, will today play host to many oil and gas industry heavyweights who would be arriving the city from different parts of the world to witness… Read more »
Nigeria: Court Declines Atiku's Request for Live Broadcast of Proceedings
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) on Monday declined to grant the request of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for live… Read more »
Nigeria: Govt's Support Helped in Tackling Oil Theft, Other Maritime Crimes in Niger Delta, Says Admiral Shettima
The Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), Central Naval Command (CNC), Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Rear Admiral Ibrahim Aliu Shettima, has attributed the successes recorded in the fight… Read more »
Nigeria: Despite #EndSARS Protest, Police Brutality Persists
Sunday Ehigiator writes that even as the ghost of the 2020 #EndSARS protest, that rocked the fabric of the nation, still hovers, police brutality still persists and has even… Read more »
May 21, 2023
Nigeria: CSOs Urge Media to Insist On Rescue of Leah Sharibu, Other Chibok Girls
Seven days to the end of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have stated that the administration did not live up to its promise… Read more »
Nigeria: Govt Signs Memorandum of Understanding With Doctors to End Warning Strike
The federal government has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) and the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to… Read more »
May 20, 2023
Nigeria: Tinubu Returns to Nigeria Ahead of Inauguration
President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Saturday returned to Nigeria from Europe ahead of the May 29 inauguration. Read more »
Nigeria: Govt Opens Vista for Nigerian Businesses Worldwide, Sets Up Help Desk for Citizens in Diaspora
Nigerian businesses have been given another opening to the rest of the world as the federal government has launched an online platform that would connect foreign businesses that… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigerian Presidents No Longer Need Medicals Abroad - Aisha Buhari
The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has said overseas medicals for Nigerian Presidents will henceforth become a thing of the past with the inauguration of the N21 billion… Read more »
May 19, 2023
Nigeria: North Central Senators-Elect Still Stand By Musa for Deputy Senate President - Wadada
The senator-elect, who will represent the Nasarawa West Senatorial District in the 10th Senate, Aliyu Wadada, has said his colleagues from the North-central geopolitical zone are… Read more »
May 20, 2023
Nigeria: It's Not Your Duty to Defend Tinubu's Alleged Drug, Dual Citizenship Cases - Atiku to INEC
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last presidential election, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, has faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC's)… Read more »
Nigeria: North-Central Senators-Elect Adamant, Insist On Sani Musa for Deputy Senate President
The Senator-elect who would represent the Nasarawa West in the 10th Senate, Aliyu Wadada, has said his colleagues from the North-central geopolitical zone were still determined to… Read more »
Nigeria: Insecurity During My Tenure Gave Me Sleepless Nights - Ex-Leader Jonathan
Eight years after leaving office, former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that he lost sleep over the insecurity that pervaded the country during his tenure. Read more »
May 19, 2023
Nigeria: Jonathan Conceding Defeat in 2015 Unprecedented, UN-Nigerian - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, reviewed the 2015 general election that brought him into office, and said the singular act of his predecessor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan,… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigeria Targeting 30GW Electricity By 2030 - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared that Nigeria was targeting 30GW electricity by the year 2030. Read more »
May 17, 2023
Nigeria: Still On Atiku's Request for Live Broadcast of Court Proceedings
In a situation where there are concerns over the outcome of the 2023 general elections with individuals daily losing confidence in the country and its various institutions, it… Read more »
Nigeria: Govt Unveils Revised National Agricultural Seed Policy
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, yesterday launched the Revised National Agricultural Seed Policy to boost farmers' unrestricted access to… Read more »