archiveDecember 2024

The House of Representatives on Tuesday unveiled plans to investigate the activities of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) which resulted in scarcity of naira notes across the country. The resolution was passed sequel to the adoption of a motion on matter of urgent public importance on the urgent need...

Germany’s President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has arrived in Nigeria. He was received on Tuesday, December 10 at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. During his three-day visit, Steinmeier is scheduled to meet with President Bola Tinubu...

The second arrest in the investigation of organised corporate fleecing of Brila fm has opened the lid on what led to the suspension of broadcast services of broadcast network in Port Harcourt and Abuja, by the group Chairman, Mr Larry Izamuje. According to an insider source, one Engr Sam Victor...

The Labour Party caucus in the House of Representatives has called for judicial neutrality, impartiality and fair hearing in the defamation case against an activist lawyer, Dele Farotimi, by Chief Afe Babalola (SAN The Labour Party caucus in the House of Representatives has called for judicial neutrality, impartiality and fair...

The 2023 presidential candidate for the Labour Party, Peter Obi has urged leaders across Nigeria to always search their consciences and stay away from corruption. In a post on X, Obi said Nigeria’s corruption perception index of 145 out of 180 countries measured shows the high level of corruption in...

It was a promise made and kept, as Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo of Anambra State in his infrastructural drive, completes the construction of the 12.5km Ezira-Umuomaku-Enugu Umuonyia-Achina Road, linking several communities. With the ongoing and completed road projects in the state, Governor Soludo has literally turned Anambra into a construction...

The Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc, Alhaji (Dr) Umaru Kwairanga, has said the number of investors in the Nigerian capital market was unacceptable given the population of the country. Kwairanga said this at the 2024 annual conference of the Capital Market Correspondents Association of Nigeria (CAMCAN) in Lagos....

A new report has said that Nigeria’s rising population, low literacy are blocking industrialization in the country. The report by Renaissance Capital reveals that Nigeria’s alarmingly low literacy rate of sixty per cent will remain a major drag against industrialization in Africa’s most populous nation. The 2025 Global and Nigeria...

A HIgh Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama, Abuja has ordered the remand of the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja pending his bail application. By the court’s ruling, Bello may remain in prison till January 29 when the court...

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede, has expressed optimism that the new insurgent group, Lakurawa, will soon be eradicated, citing strengthened cooperation with Nigeria’s neighbouring countries. He also revealed that the Nigerian Army had adopted a fresh strategy to tackle the country’s emerging security threats, He...