President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly, seeking approval to borrow the sum of $4,054,476,863 billion and €710 million. The request was made known in a letter read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan at plenary on Tuesday. In…
Two friends appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday for allegedly stealing men’s shoes and sandals worth N225, 000. The police charged Abidemi Aminu, 33, and Michael Bello, 31, with the conspiracy, theft and demanding property by menace.…
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has approved a 50-million-dollar Trade Finance Unfunded Risk Participation Agreement (RPA) facility between the AfDB and the Standard Chartered Bank. A statement issued by the bank on Tuesday, said the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to consider the appointment of an indigene of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, as a cabinet minister. A constitutional lawyer, Musa Baba-Panya, made the call on Wednesday in a statement he released in…
By Ibiyemi Mathew The National Information technology development agency (NITDA) has hosted the first of its kind digital hangout. The hangout which went live yesterday on Microsoft team had in attendance Stakeholder’s from the public and private space from the…
Nigeria has surpassed 200,000 cases from the coronavirus pandemic 18 months after the first positive case was identified in an Italian traveller on Feb. 27, 2020, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease (NCDC). The NCDC via its verified website…
Big Brother Naija housemates Cross and Pere are set to begin investigating the quarrel between lovebirds in the house, Nini and Saga and also Emmanuel and Liquorose. Cross and Pere while speaking on Wednesday expressed concern over the quarrel between…
Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Prof. Lilian Salami has announced the immediate closure of the University, following the protest that rocked the institution on Tuesday. It was reported that students of the institution blocked the ever-busy Benin-Lagos…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration Transportation Secretariat, has directed licensed taxi and terminal operators to withdraw all the touts they stationed along the roads that harass motorists and other road users. The Acting Secretary of the Secretariat, Malam Usman Yahaya,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has rejoiced with consummate author, journalist, poet, essayist, photographer and Pan-Africanist, Lindsay Barrett, as he turns 80 Sept. 15. Jamaica-born Barrett took Nigeria’s citizenship in the 1980s, and the President recalls meeting him at the warfront in…
