The Gombe State Commissioner for Internal Security, Col. Abdullahi Bello (rtd), and his police orderly, Sergeant Adamu Husaini, have died in an auto crash along the Malam Sidi-Gombe Road in the state. Gombe State Governor Inuwa Yahaya announced the incident...
Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa has disclosed how an unknown person attempted to poison him at a public event in the country. The 37-year-old president said the person attempted to poison him with chocolate and a jam laced with chemicals, gifted...
Nigeria is projected to regain its position as Africa’s third-largest economy by 2026, according to new data released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), marking a significant recovery after years of economic decline. The IMF’s latest projections indicate that South...
A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday failed to establish a direct link between former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and several accounts held in Zenith Bank in connection with an...
President Bola Tinubu has lauded Nigeria's delisting from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list. A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the FATF announced the delisting at its...
The former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has decried the uneven concentration of Nigeria’s maritime development in Lagos State. Obi lamented that Nigeria’s infrastructure investment remains excessively concentrated in Lagos, neglecting other strategic ports such as...
Nigeria’s fiscal deficit widened significantly to N13.51 trillion in 2024, surpassing government projections and breaching the legal limit set by the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) 2007, according to the latest Budget Implementation Report released by the Budget Office of...
The European Union (EU) has announced that Nigerian researchers are now eligible to participate in its flagship Horizon Europe programme — a nearly €100 billion global initiative designed to fund cutting-edge research and innovation. EU Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS,...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved major changes in the leadership of Nigeria’s Armed Forces as part of efforts to strengthen the country’s national security architecture. According to a statement issued on Friday by Sunday Dare, Special Adviser to the...
The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, has expressed his condolences to the former Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman of the PAP, Dr Kingsley Kuku, on the demise of his mother,...