Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu urged Nigerian youths to exercise patience with his economic reforms under his administration. The President disclosed this on Thursday in a meeting with the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Youth Leaders from the 36 States and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Since his inauguration on May 29th, the Nigerian government has removed…
Two children lost their lives when a building collapsed on Ajao Street in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.The incident happened on Saturday morning, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. “The children aged nine and seven were trapped when the fence from the neighbouring house fell on their building during the day’s heavy downpour,”…
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says it plans to generate a total of N25 trillion for the country in 2024. It also said it plans to generate N7.5 trillion in the second half of this year. This is contained in the presentation made by the FIRS Chairman, Muhammad Nami, at the meeting of the…
A viral video of President Bola Tinubu campaigning to reduce the price of fuel upon his assumption as president has surfaced online. Tinubu at his campaign rally in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, could be heard in the video promising the crowd an easier life under his leadership. The President spoke…
Guinea-Bissau’s government has ordered the suspension of teachers’ salaries to weed out fraudulent claims on the payroll from fictitious workers, according to a statement released on Thursday. The tiny West African country that depends largely on external aid to meet salaries in the education sector, has declared a war on ghost civil servants in order…
Delivering Judgement, Justice James Omotosho held that Mubarak’s name was fraudulently submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as NNPP’s governorship candidate. He further ordered that Hassan Abdullahi be restored as the party’s flag bearer having lawfully won the primary of the party conducted on April 16, 2023, with 303 votes while Mubarak came…
Police in Las Vegas have confirmed they served a search warrant this week in connection with the long-unsolved killing of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur, propelling the case back into the spotlight nearly 30 years after his death. Shakur, one of the most prolific figures in hip-hop, was gunned down on the night of September 7,…
There was widespread anger by Nigerians, on Tuesday, following the hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other oil marketers across the country. In Abuja and Ondo State, for instance, the cost of petrol jumped from about N537/litre to between N617 and…
he Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) today launched a Health Security Partnership to Strengthen Disease Surveillance and Epidemic Intelligence in Africa. The partnership aims to strengthen Africa’s health security capabilities in the areas of biosecurity, integrated disease surveillance, event-based surveillance,…
