The Lagos State Government has suspended all activities earlier announced for the Greater Lagos Fiesta 2021. The one-month event themed ‘Lagos Rocks’ was to start on December 1st across the five divisions of Lagos – Ikorodu, Ikeja, Badagry, Lagos Island...
No fewer than six start-ups owned by young Nigerians have grown from scratch to billion dollar businesses in recent years, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said. Osinbajo said that as at 2021, more than six of such companies had been...
The controversy over who is the largest shareholder in the First Bank of Nigeria Holding Plc continues on Saturday as the National Pension Commission (PenCom) told Tunde Hassan-Odukale that he can’t appropriate the shareholding of pension funds in the...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has counselled Nigeria not to delay the removal of subsidies on fuel and electricity. The Fund suggested that removal of fuel subsidy and cost-reflective electricity tariffs must be implemented in early 2022. It noted that the...
Award-winning singer, David Adeleke, better known as Davido, has set up a five-man committee to disburse about N250 million to orphanages across the country. The singer made this known in a statement dated Friday, 19th of November 2021, and released...
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will speak in January 2022 on whether he will be running for president in 2023 or not. Fashola, who...
Eminent lawyer and former Minister of Education, Prof. Ben Nwabueze has applauded the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to consider the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Kanu is currently standing trial for...
The Coalition of North Central Groups have called on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rally behind a presidential candidate from the North Central geopolitical region of the country in 2023. The coalition is made up of young, social and...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has acknowledged the receipt of the sum of N19,333,333,333.36 recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from the Kogi State Salary Bail-out account domiciled in Sterling Bank Plc. The confirmation, EFCC said...
Over 5,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have volunteered to return to safe and rebuilt communities in Borno State on Friday received N500 million from Governor Babagana Zulum. The governor was at a government-controlled camp, fondly called ‘Bakassi’ in Maiduguri,...