India announces bill to ban cryptocurrencies
India’s government will introduce a bill to ban private cryptocurrencies and create a framework for a central bank-backed digital money, parliament said in a shock announcement late…
2023 presidency: Tinubu’s seven-point agenda unveiled
Though the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has not yet declared his intention to vie for the 2023 presidency, his purported seven-point agenda…
Son Of Oduduwa University Owner Threw Body Of OAU Student In The Bush – Police Reveals
Osun State commissioner of police, CP Olawale Olokode on Monday revealed that the son of Dr Ramon Adedoyin, owner of Hilton Hotel who is now at large organised the throwing away of the body of…
ORIENTATION: DG WARNS PROSPECTIVE CORPS MEMBERS AGAINST FAKE COVID-19 DOCUMENTS
Prospective Corps Members for the 2021 Batch 'C' Stream Two Orientation Course have been warned against coming to camp with fake COVID-19 document for registration.…
Why Nnamdi Kanu Can’t Be Compared To Sunday Igboho – Guru Maharaj
The founder of One Love Family, Sat Guru Maharaj Ji, has said Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Igboho cannot be compared to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Maharaji…
EndSARS Report: “You Celebrated Prematurely” – Lai Mohammed Mocks CNN
Nigeria's Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed has mocked popular TV station, CNN over its stance and reportage of the #EndSARS Lekki Tollgate shootings. CNN had reportedly demanded…
Sir Alex Ferguson Wants Mauricio Pochettino As Next Manchester United Manager
Sir Alex Ferguson reportedly wants PSG boss Mauricio Pochettino to succeed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as Manchester United manager. That is according to talkSPORT journalist Ian…
‘To support economic recovery’ — CBN retains benchmark interest rate at 11.5%
The monetary policy committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has voted to retain the monetary policy rate (MPR), which measures interest rate, at 11.5 percent. The monetary…
Baba Suwe: Son apologises to TAMPAN, Nigerians over comment on actor’s death
Adesola Omidina, a son of the late veteran Nigerian comic actor, Baba Suwe, has apologised to the members of Theatre Arts And Motion Pictures Practitioners Association Of Nigeria; and…
Two Nigerian fraudsters to spend combined 22 years in US jail
Two Nigerians, Opeyemi Abidemi Adeoso, 46, and Benjamin Adeleke Ifebajo, 47, have been jailed in the US for internet fraud. The duo bagged a 22 years combined jail term in federal…
Full list: Lai Mohammed lists 10 ‘loopholes’ in Lagos EndSARS panel report
Minister of Information Lai Mohammed has faulted the leaked report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other…
Chinese birthrate falls to lowest level in 4 decades
The birthrate in China has fallen to its lowest level in more than four decades. The statistics office said the 18 per cent drop in births in 2020 to 12 million was due in part to the…
Kanu’s Release Is An Invitation To More Treasonable Acts – Group Tells Buhari
Tiv Youth Council Worldwide (TYCW) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to allow himself to be pressured into taking a decision “that will set bad precedence stressing…
Kill subsidy, cut loans from CBN, raise taxes on sin goods… 7 things World Bank wants Buhari to do…
The World Bank on Tuesday released its November 2021 Nigeria Development Update, which showed — among other things — that eight million Nigerians fell into poverty in less than two years as a…
FG will replace fuel subsidy with N5,000 transport grant for 40m Nigerians – Zainab Ahmed
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, says Nigeria will remove fuel subsidies by 2022 and replace them with N5000-a-month transportation grant to the poorest…
BREAKING: Lagos #EndSARS report is fake, tales by moonlight -Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and Culture, has dismissed the report of the Lagos state panel that investigated the #EndSARS massacre as fake news. Addressing a press conference in…
Electoral Act: All eyes now on Buhari for his assent – Lawan
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said members of the National Assembly have done their job by transmitting the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 to President Muhammadu Buhari…
Railway: 24 Firms Jostle For E-Ticketing Contract
No fewer than 24 companies have bidded for the electronic ticketing solutions for the Lagos-Ibadan and the Warri-Itakpe train services. The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC)…
Babangida, Abubakar confident in army’s effort in tackling insecurity
Two former Heads of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and Gen. Abdulsami Abubakar, have expressed confidence in the Nigerian Army’s effort in tackling the insecurity confronting…
Don’t allow Ikoyi Osborne foreshore turn to slum – Residents tell Sanwo-Olu
A former Kogi State deputy governor, Mr. Aboyomi Amoniyi; former Director of Lands, Lagos State, Mr. Rotimi Okunfulure; the chairman, Board of Trustee, Residents of Osborne Foreshore Residents…
Fighter jets bombard ISWAP tax collectors assaulting commuters in Kukawa
The Air Task Force of Operation Hadin Kai has eliminated tax collectors of the Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State, PRNigeria reports.…
Umahi rescues baby detained in hospital over bills, employs mother
It was like a prayer answered to Mr. and Mrs. Sunday Igboke from Oriuzor in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State as they on Monday received the sum of N500,000 from Governor…
OBITUARY: Baba Suwe, self-trained actor and school dropout, who died with one regret
Since the dawn of 2021, Nigeria has lost some of its finest talents in the movie industry. From Rachel Oniga, Prince Ifeanyi Dike, Victor Olaotan to Sadiq Daba; Nigerians have watched,…
N120bn Hard Drugs Seized From Lagos Ports In 11 Months
No fewer than 300 tonnes of Illicit drugs valued at N120billion have been impounded at Lagos and Tincan Island ports by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) this…