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Economists have advised Nigerians to brace for higher inflation in the coming months. They said that political spending as preparations for the 2023 general elections heightens, worsening exchange rate and other factors would keep inflation […]

8The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) has accused Ned Nwoko of spilling half-truths regarding the Paris Club Refund. The governors said the facts on the “fraud” associated with the Paris Club refunds can never be changed […]

The Headquarters Sector 2 Joint Task Force North-east Operation Hadin Kai of the Nigerian Army has constituted a panel to investigate the alleged complicity of its soldiers accused of killing an Islamic cleric in Yobe […]

The Nigerian government on Sunday said it is working with authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to assist Nigerians stranded in Dubai. A viral video emerged on social media recently with women who claimed […]

Wasteful culture, poor management, corruption, lack of trust between state and federal governments, and worsening fiscal outlook may have played key roles in the depletion of the over $22 billion left in the Excess Crude […]

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and other Associated Institutions on Saturday announced the suspension of its more than five-month-old strike. The unions said the suspension […]

Anambra State may have entered a new chapter in its journey to become a viable entity. On March 17, 2022, Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, and his deputy, Dr Onyeka Ibezim, took the Oath of Office […]

The long wait for the planned relocation of saw millers of Oko Baba in Ebute Metta, Lagos Mainland, to a proposed permanent site in Agbowa, will come to an end in December, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu […]

Confidence in the economy has dropped to its lowest ebb, emboldening some Nigerians – the wealthy and hustlers– to bet against the naira, investigations have suggested. As desperate behaviours intensify, the lines between the elite […]

Eyinatayo Iluyomade, a 19-year-old Lagos-based comedian, has been arrested and charged to court for saying an expensive joke. The skit maker was alleged to have dropped a threat note of robbery at First Bank’s Sabo […]

A review of the outcomes of party primaries has revealed that dozens of members of the House of Representatives fell at the first hurdle in their reelection bids, as the hands of state governors showed […]

The US on Monday released a new African policy to counter China and Russia’s presence in Africa. The launch of the policy comes as US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, visits South Africa, Rwanda and […]

Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has reacted to a video showing some members of Pyrates Confraternity mocking Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In the video which has gone viral on social […]

The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of 11 cybercriminals on separate charges of fraudulent impersonation before Justices Olusola Adetujoye and Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo […]

Valentine Obienyem, media aide of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says the former governor is not a member of the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), better known as the Pyrates Confraternity. […]

Lawmakers representing Nigeria at the ECOWAS Parliament have threatened to withdraw their membership following what they said was a breach of a resolution passed by the parliament to suspend all recruitment processes and other irregularities. […]

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said the federal government has no money to meet the demands of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Mr Keyamo, newly appointed […]