archiveJanuary 2022

  President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the Super Eagles to keep its focus on winning in the ongoing 33rd edition of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON), in Cameroon. The President, who congratulated the Coach Augustine Eguavoen-led team over the victory won in its opener against the Egyptian national team,...

  Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, has said that Abadam and Guzamala local government areas in Borno State were still under the control of the Boko Haram terrorists. According to Vanguard, Zulum made the revelation when Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Mohammed Ali Ndume, led other senators including military...

  A suit seeking to stop the Nigerian Police and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) from arresting and extraditing suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari was, on Wednesday, stalled. The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/854/2021, could not proceed before Justice Donatus Okorowo due to the absence of the counsel...

A presidential aspirant and former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, on Wednesday, said he forgot to inform President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to run for President in the 2023 general elections. “I forgot to inform President @Mbuhari that I am running for...

A data consulting firm, Beacon, has revealed that no fewer than 8372 people lost their lives to security challenges in Nigeria in 2021. The firm on Wednesday stated that the larger share of these deaths were recorded in the northern part of the country. The report stated: "An analysis of...

The Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, January 12, 2022, arraigned Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha, and Ismalob Global Investment Limited before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on eight counts bordering on conspiracy to launder funds...

  A former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala is dead. It was gathered that Alao-Akala, who is from Ogbomoso, died on Wednesday. He was Oyo State Governor between 2007 and 2011. Details of his death are still sketchy. Media aide to the former Governor, Tolu Mustapha has...

  A former Minister of Education, Dr.Oby Ezekwesili, has warned that money will fail Nigerian political leaders declaring to run for presidency in 2023. Apparently reacting to the National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who informed the President of his ambition to contest in the...

The World Bank has projected that the Nigerian economy would grow by 2.5 per cent in 2022, up from an estimated 2.4 per cent growth in 2021. The bank, in its January 2022 Global Economic Prospects report published on Tuesday, said Nigeria’s growth is projected to strengthen somewhat to 2.5...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has instructed that teachers and students with high temperatures should not be allowed into schools. In its latest Covid-19 situation report, NDDC said the detection of the Omicron variant which has been found to be more transmissible, has intensified the need to...