August 24, 2022
Nigeria: 94 Countries Jostle for Edo International Film Festival
Edo State Skill Development Agency has received 1, 551 movie entries from 94 countries for the international film festival scheduled to be held in the state next month. Read more »
Nigeria: Cholera Killed 10 in July With 18 Percent Increase in Cases - NCDC
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 10 deaths from cholera in the month of July with 18 per cent increase in number of new suspected cases. Read more »
Nigeria: Why Buhari Hasn't Removed Fuel Subsidy - Keyamo
Minister of state for labour and employment and the director for the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Festus Keyamo (SAN) has given reasons for… Read more »
Nigeria: Siemens Power Initiative - Federal Govt Investing $2bn in Distribution, Transmission - Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that the federal government is investing more than $2 billion under the Siemens Presidential Power Initiative to boost transmission and… Read more »
August 23, 2022
Nigeria: Insecurity - Timber Shades Take Over Yam Markets As Taraba Farmers Flee Settlements
Farmers in the 16 local government areas and the two special development areas of Taraba State have recorded low food production in the 2022 farming season due to the worsening… Read more »
Nigeria: Katsina Emirate Kingmaker, Nuhu Abdulkadir, Is Dead
The Kauran Katsina and District Head of Rimi (Hakimin Rimi) in Katsina State, Alhaji Nuhu Abdulkadir, is dead. Read more »
August 22, 2022
Nigeria: Singer Eedris Abdulkareem Undergoes Successful Kidney Transplant
Nigerian popular musician, Eedris Abdulkareem, has undergone a successful kidney transplant procedure. Read more »
August 23, 2022
Nigeria: Finance Ministry Promises Adequate Budgetary Allocation for Safe Schools Project
The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning has committed to creating adequate budgetary allocation for financing the federal government initiated safe schools programme. Read more »
Nigeria: Federal Govt Introduces Vaccine to Fight 50,000 Diarrhoea Deaths Annually
Federal government has said that about 50,000 deaths occur in children under five years in Nigeria as a result of rotavirus infection, saying vaccination against the virus will… Read more »
Nigeria: Federal Govt Promises to Release Trapped $464m Foreign Airlines Funds
Reprieve may soon come the way of the foreign airlines whose funds are trapped in the country as the federal government has assured them it is doing everything possible to ensure… Read more »
Nigeria: Lekki Deep Seaport Will Increase Govt's Revenue, Create 112,000 Jobs - Minister
The minister of Transportation, Alhaji Mu'azu Sambo, on Sunday said the Lekki deep seaport would bring more tonnage, and revenue to the port and the country. Read more »
Nigeria: Dangote in Fight to End Malaria
The struggle to end malaria in Nigeria has entered a new phase with Nigerian Champion of the struggle, Aliko Dangote named the pioneer chair of the National End Malaria Council… Read more »
Nigeria: Stakeholders Lament CBN's Interest Rate Reversal On Intervention Loans
The Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) decision to revert interest rate on its Covid-19 intervention facilities has drawn the ire of stakeholders as well as experts, whose thoughts… Read more »
August 22, 2022
Nigeria: UN Hails Nigerian Women Over Economic Development
The United Nations (UN) has commended the Nigerian women's drive for economic development. Read more »
August 20, 2022
Nigeria: SSANU, NASU Suspend Strike for 60 Days
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions (NASU), has… Read more »
August 19, 2022
Nigeria: CBN Announces USSD Code for eNaira Transactions, As Subscription Hits 840,000
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has unveiled a new short code for subscribers of its digital currency, eNaira to make financial transactions on the platform. The aim is to… Read more »
Nigeria: Lagos Airport Records Low Passenger Turnout As Return Tickets Hit N250,000
Passengers are shunning air travels while companies, organisation and Associations are reverting to online meetings instead of physical meetings and traveling due to the increase… Read more »
August 18, 2022
Nigeria: 'No-Work-No-Pay' Policy Stalling Govt/ASUU Negotiations, Says Education Minister
The federal government's insistence that university lecturers who have been on strike over the past six months, will not be paid for the period, has stalled the negotiations… Read more »
Nigeria: Inflation - CBN Returns Interest On Intervention Programmes to 9 Percent
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has returned the interest rate on all its interventions back to nine per cent - from five per cent a circular that was released by the apex bank… Read more »
Nigeria: Lagos Residents Raise the Alarm Over Land Speculators' Activities
Residents of Okegun-Museyo community, Ibeju-Lekki Local government areas of Lagos State have raised the alarm over the activities of land speculators, urging the state Governor,… Read more »
Nigeria: Inflation - Federal Govt Bans Foreigners From Buying Food Commodities At Farm Gates
The federal government has set up an inter-ministerial standing committee to oversee the implementation of a memo on the "Promotion of Agri-Business in Nigeria through Right Farm… Read more »
Nigeria: Sanwo-Olu Vows to Test Run Lagos Blue Rail Line Trains in December
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday restated his administration's commitment to the timely delivery of infrastructure needed for economic prosperity of the state,… Read more »
Nigeria: Emirates Suspends Flights to Nigeria Over Trapped Funds
Emirates Airline, On Thursday, announced the suspension of all flights in and out of Nigeria due to unpaid $85million trapped in the country and unavailability of foreign exchange. Read more »
Nigeria: $418m Paris Club Refund... Governors Fire Back At Malami, Accuse Him of Pursuing Self-Interests
Governors of the 36 states of the federation yesterday lost their cool and descended verbally on the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) and minister of Justice, Abubakar… Read more »
Nigeria: No Plot to Remove Adamu As National Chairman - APC
All Progressives Congress (APC) has refuted media reports suggesting a plot to remove Senator Abdullahi Adamu as national chairman of the party. Read more »