The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed a N4.44 trillion budget for the 2026 fiscal year, adopting the House Committee on Economic Planning and Budget’s report.
The chairman of the committee, Sa’ad Olumoh, presented the report during plenary in...
Super Eagles captain, Wilfred Ndidi, has pledged to personally pay the team’s outstanding match bonuses at the ongoing 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco if the Federal Government fails to settle the payments before Saturday’s quarter-final clash against...
The family of Dr. Abu Babatunde, a house officer at the Edo University Teaching Hospital, Iyamho, has appealed to the public for financial assistance following his abduction by gunmen alongside his brother.
In a statement released on Thursday, the family...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has announced that the annual January 15 event to honour Nigeria’s military personnel will now be officially called “Armed Forces Celebration and Remembrance Day”, instead of the former title, “Armed Forces Remembrance Day.”
In a statement...
The Nigerian stock market has been ranked third-highest in Africa by the number of listed companies.
The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) disclosed this via its 2025 Africa Markets Report released on Thursday, January 8, 2026.
The Nigerian Exchange...
President Bola Tinubu has commended corporate Nigeria, investors, and other stakeholders in the Nigerian capital market for surpassing the historic N100 trillion market capitalisation on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX).
Describing the achievement as a “new economic reality and rejuvenation,” President...
Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has paid a heartfelt tribute to his two friends who were killed in a car crash on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State.
Joshua was released from hospital on New Year's Eve after sustaining...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has praised President Bola Tinubu for ending decades of dangerous river crossings and costly air travel to Bonny Island in Rivers State with the completion of the Bodo-Bonny Road.
Wike spoke on...
The Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Martins Amaewhule, has said it would be better for all lawmakers in the state to resign than remain in office without the power to uphold the Constitution.
Amaewhule made the remark...
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has secured the release of a Nigerian citizen, Pastor Benjamin Egbaji, who had been incarcerated in the Republic of Benin for over two years.
Egbaji, a businessman and cleric from...
