August 25, 2022
Nigeria: Artefacts - Oba of Benin's Representatives, Others to Attend Berlin Humboldt Forum Arts Exhibition
The Humboldt Forum, a museum of art and culture would play host to arts collectors, enthusiasts, and researchers across the globe at the second opening of Humboldt forum in Berlin,… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigeria Seeks $10bn Package From International Partners for Energy Transition Plan - Osinbajo
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has declared that Nigeria is seeking $10 billion from international partners to fund the nation's new Energy Transition Plan. Read more »
August 24, 2022
Nigeria: Nigerian Navy Ship Kada Returns to Lagos After Conveying Military Hardware, Troops to Guinea Bissau
Eighteen days after it conveyed military hardware and crew to Guinea Bissau on peace keeping mission, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) KADA, a Landing Ship Transport (LST), returned to… Read more »
Nigeria: Amidst CBN Directive to DMBs, Credit to Private Sector Up N4.69trn to N39.87trn
Following the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) mandate to Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) to improve lending to the real sector of the nation's economy, credit to private sector has so far… Read more »
August 23, 2022
Nigeria: Avoid Rancour in Award of Contracts, Buhari Warns Agencies' Governing Boards
President Muhammadu Buhari has advised members of the governing boards of agencies and parastatals under the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy to eschew public rancour… Read more »
Nigeria: Govt, U.S. Sign Agreement On Repatriation of $23m Abacha Loot
The Federal Government of Nigeria and the United States of America (USA) on Tuesday signed an agreement for the repatriation of $23 million, being assets looted by late Head of… Read more »
Nigeria: Buhari Condemns Killing of Islamic Cleric By Soldier
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned what he called "the unprovoked and cold-blooded murder of a Yobe State-based Islamic cleric Sheikh Goni Aisami, by a callous soldier he had… Read more »
August 24, 2022
Nigeria: Public-Private Sector Collaboration Will Bridge Nigeria's $2.3trn Infrastructure Deficit - Osinbajo
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has posited that collaboration between the federal government and the private sector would not only ensure effective coordination of the… Read more »
Nigeria: Calling On Govt to Respond to Natural Disaster Unlawful - Buhari to Governors
President Muhammadu Buhari, has warned the 36 state governors to desist from calling on the federal government to respond to natural disaster in their areas without first taking… Read more »
Nigeria: Eight Months After Winning Licence, MTN Rolls Out 5G Today
Having won the 3.5GHz spectrum licence for 5G network rollout since December last year, coupled with the issuance of 5G spectrum licence in May this year, MTN Nigeria… Read more »
Nigeria: 41,235,148 Nigerians Have Received Covid-19 Vaccines - NPHCDA
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) yesterday disclosed that the country has successfully vaccinated 41,235,148 of its eligible population with the first… Read more »
Nigeria: Fake News, Misinformation Worsening Insecurity Nationwide - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said the current insecurity in the country was being made worse by rising fake news and misinformation. Buhari stated this at an event in… Read more »
August 23, 2022
Nigeria: Nigeria, India Need to Improve On Existing Security, Political, Economic Relationship - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the urgent need for Nigeria and India to improve on the existing security, political, as well as economic relationship between the two… Read more »
Nigeria: Govt Decries Abuse of Expatriate Quota Policy, Re-Inaugurates Taskforce
The Minister of Interior, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola, has decried the abuses and gross violations of Nigeria's expatriate quota policy by foreigners and some organisations in the… Read more »
Nigeria: UK Donates £15m Towards Tackling Insecurity, Malnutrition in North-East
The United Kingdom (UK) has donated £15 million for the provision of vital food and nutrition for vulnerable people in the North-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. Read more »
Nigeria: $33m Azura Power Deal - House Committee Invites Ministers of Finance, Power, BPP Others
The House of Representatives' Committee on Finance has invited the Ministers of Power, Finance, heads of Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Niger Delta Power Holding Company… Read more »
Nigeria: SERAP, NGE Sue Buhari, Others Over Threat to Shutdown 53 Broadcast Stations
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Broadcasting… Read more »
Nigeria: We'll Resist Any Attempt to Undermine Nigerian Football - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his administration will resist any attempt to undermine the development of football as the number one sport in the country. Read more »
Nigeria: Govt to Complete Major Road Projects Before End of 2023
The Director, Planning Research and Statistics, Federal Ministry of Works Mr. Jide Ode Marthins, has said that before the end of the year 2023 quite a number of roads projects will… Read more »
Nigeria: There's No Way Illegal Refineries Can Be Converted to Regular Facilities - Kyari
The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mallam Mele Kyari, yesterday poured cold water on calls for the legalisation of… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigerian Govt Begins Talks With Airlines Over Trapped Funds
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said relevant authorities are working towards addressing issues concerning revenue of foreign airlines that have… Read more »
Nigeria: Buhari, AGF, Others Dragged to Court Over Alleged Unlawful Interference in NDDC
President Muhammadu Buhari, and four others have been dragged before a Federal High Court, Abuja, over their alleged unlawful interference in the operations of the Niger Delta… Read more »
Nigeria: At NBA Conference, Atiku, Obi, Shettima Decry State of Nigeria, Proffer Solutions
The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi as well as the Vice Presidential candidate of the All… Read more »
December 07, 2021
Nigeria: Tackling Sanitation and Hygiene Challenges Beyond Policies
Omolabake Fasogbon in this report, writes about individual's quota to the quest to hygiene and sanitation challenge and expedite the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal six… Read more »
May 07, 2020
Nigeria: The Essential Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Tuesday, 5th May marked the 10th anniversary of the death of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. In this tribute, first published on 5th June 2010, his spokesman, Olusegun Adeniyi… Read more »