Nigeria: Emefiele-Led CBN As Pillar of Nigeria's Economic Diversification Drive

Mohamed El-Erian, who served as chair of President Barrack Obama's Global Development Council, highlighted challenges that confront central banks globally in his book titled "The… Read more »

Nigeria: No More Easy Route to Power Than Electorate - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, declared that with the outcome of the 2023 national elections, there would be no more easy route to power than through the electorate. Read more »

Nigeria: $800m World Bank Support - NECA Urges Govt to Prioritise Fixing Refineries Above Sharing Palliatives

The Nigeria Employers' Consultative Association (NECA) has called on the federal government to prioritise fixing the country's comatose refineries instead of the proposed sharing… Read more »

Nigeria: Doomsday Prophets of Nigerian Politics

Opposition politicians need utmost restraint in their reactions to the outcome of the recent presidential poll in the country. Read more »

Nigeria: The Aberrance of Interim Government

Last year, some leaders of thought advocated for military rule in Nigeria, apparently due to a sense of frustration with the seeming collapse of civilian authority. Nigerians… Read more »

Nigeria: NBC - the Regulator or Tormentor of the Broadcast Industry

Anybody who appreciates the importance of press freedom as a key indicator of a truly democratic political system, must be disturbed by the news of the N5 million fine slammed by… Read more »

Nigeria: Call for Interim Govt Illegal, Unconstitutional - DHQ

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has described the alleged plot by some misguided politicians to install an interim national government in the country as "illegal and… Read more »

Nigeria: 2023 Poll Has Changed Nigeria's Political Landscape - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the 2023 polls have proved the growing strength of the nation's democracy and more especially, the sophistication of the Nigerian voter… Read more »

Nigeria: Govt Receives Report of Presidential Committee On Review of Nigerian Missions Worldwide

The presidential committee instituted to review the number and strategy of resourcing the country's diplomatic missions worldwide has submitted its final report to the federal… Read more »

Nigeria: Dangote, Rabiu, Adenuga, Make Forbes Billionaires' List

Forbes has listed three Nigerians, Aliko Dangote, Abdul Samad Rabiu, and Mike Adenuga among the billionaire businessman and philanthropists rating in the Forbes billionaires list… Read more »

Nigeria: Niger Governor-Elect Sets Up 62-Man Transition Council

Former Director-General of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mallam Sulaiman Ndanusa, has been named as the head of a 62-man transition council by the Niger State… Read more »

Nigeria: Peter Obi, Lai's Treason Card and Nigeria

Chido Nwangwu writes that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has faulted the recent treason allegation levelled against him by… Read more »

Nigeria: Anambra Govt Excited As UNICEF Rehabilitates Health Centres Damaged By 2022 Flood

Anambra State government has expressed gratitude to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) over the renovation of some Primary Healthcare Centres(PHCs) in the flood-ravaged… Read more »

Nigeria: Senate Considers Buhari's Request for N9.6bn Refund to Plateau, Borno

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, yesterday asked the Senate Committee on Foreign and Local Loans to consider a request by President Muhammadu Buhari seeking parliamentary… Read more »

Nigeria: Peter Obi Under Pressure to Leave Nigeria, Says Labour Party

Labour Party, yesterday, raised the alarm over the continued pressure from concerned Nigerians and family members of its presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential… Read more »

Nigeria: Tems, Starr, Hansel, Ndu-Okeke, 7 Other Nigerians in Forbes Africa's '30 Under '30

Grammy award winner, Tems (Temilade Openiyi); singer, Ayra Starr (Oyinkansola Aderibigbe); Hansel and Germain Ndu-Okeke, Blessing Abeng, and two other Nigerians are among the young… Read more »

Nigeria: Govt Disburses N320.3bn to Varsities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education

The federal government has approved the 2023 disbursement guidelines in the total sum of N320,345,040,835 as intervention to public tertiary institutions across the the country. Read more »

Nigeria: 10th Assembly - to Counter APC, Opposition Lawmakers Form Alliance

The House of Representatives members-elect during the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections on Tuesday night met ahead of the inauguration of the 10th Assembly. Read more »

Nigeria: Enugu Assembly Asks Buhari, National Assembly to Probe 'Ignoble Role' of Military in State's Guber Election

The Enugu State House of Assembly has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to order investigation into what it described as the "ignoble role of the military… Read more »

Nigeria: Buhari Reverses Tenure Extension Granted Naseni Boss, Orders Him to Hand Over Immediately

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Professor Mohammed Sani Haruna,… Read more »

Nigeria: Amapiano - Unifying Force of Collaborative Music

Vanessa Obioha writes about the collaborative power of Amapiano, the groovy music genre that originated in South Africa and is uniting musicians within and beyond Read more »

Nigeria: 2023 Election - South-East Lawyers Decry Violence, Voter Intimidation, Ethnic Profiling

The apex law society for lawyers of Igbo extraction, Otu Oka Iwu (Law Society) has condemned, in strong terms, the high level of violence, thuggery, ballot-snatching, voter… Read more »

Nigeria: Obi - an Emerging Force in Nigeria's Political Landscape

After a critical look at the efforts of the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, in the just concluded 2023 presidential Poll, David-Chyddy Eleke concludes that he is… Read more »

Nigeria: Unions Threatens to Resume Strike in Imo State

Organised labour under the auspices of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC ) warned that its members may be forced to resume the suspended strike in Imo… Read more »

Nigeria: NCDMB Performs Groundbreaking for Construction of $7.04bn Pipe Manufacturing Plant in Bayelsa

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Simbi Wabote has performed the groundbreaking ceremony of a $7.04 billion pipe… Read more »