President Vladmir Putin of Russia has expressed great optimism for Nigeria’s support in hosting the 2022 edition of the Russia African Summit. Putin who disclosed this while receiving the Letter of Credence from Nigeria’s Ambassador, Prof Abdullahi Shehu, recalled his meeting with President Buhari in Sochi, noting that they...
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Oil prices on Thursday rose ahead of new decisions by the OPEC+ oil association. In the morning, a barrel (159 litres) of North Sea Brent crude for delivery in February cost 69.77 dollars, 90 per cents more than the previous day. The price of a barrel of U.S. West...
Ahead of the buyout announcement of Oct. 4, Airtel Africa Plc. has announced the completion of the minority shareholding buyback of Airtel Networks Ltd. (Airtel Nigeria). This is contained in a notice signed by the group’s Company Secretary, Simon O’Hara, posted on the website of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd.,...
Unidentified gunmen on Thursday stormed a Mexican prison and freed nine inmates, Hidalgo state Interior Minister, Simon Vargas said. Vargas said the gunmen gained access to the prison in the central Mexican city of Tula by ramming their vehicles into the building, and setting two vehicles close to the...
Terrorists affiliated to The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) have reportedly kidnapped no fewer than 5 government officials supervising some project in Borno State. It was learnt that the victims were said to be supervising the construction of Chibok-Damboa road when they attacked and forcefully whisked away...
One of Netflix’s most-watched series, Spanish thriller “Money Heist”, will come to an end on Friday when the US streaming giant releases its final five episodes. The following are five facts about the show about a gang of thieves who launch elaborate heists:Sleeper hit The debut season of the...
The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) was absent in court on Thursday during the continuation of his trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja. One of his lawyers, Alloy Ejimakor told journalists that part of the things that will be heard is the application...
Africa’s largest aviation group, Ethiopian Airlines, has been crowned as the ‘Best African Airline’ at the 2021 Business Traveller Awards. The votes made by the business travellers for this year took into account the COVID period with key questions covering airlines’ effectiveness in communication, effective implementation of COVID precautionary...
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has fixed Dec. 18 as the deadline for governorship aspirants who are still in the state’s civil service to resign their positions. The aspirant are those wishing to contest the primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress where the party’s candidate will be picked...
Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has said the travel ban on southern African countries, due to COVID-19 Omicron variant, it a form of stigmatisation against Africa. Mahamat said this while reacting to the travel ban on the Southern Africa countries at a news conference at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has explained that his occasional firing and suspension of erring government officials do not make him happy, as they even create political enemies for him. However, the governor said he took such measures to make government officials dedicate...
The Indigenous People of Biafra has said repeated jailbreaks across the country was a plot by the Federal Government to perpetually keep its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, in the custody of Department of States Services. The group alleged that the DSS always arranged a prisons break, each time a suspect...
The nation’s external reserves fell by $610m last month, figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday revealed. The reserves dropped to N$41.22bn as of November 29 from $41.83bn on October 29. The CBN also disclosed that at the present level, the external reserves could meet the...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area Command has said that the command had collected a record breaking total of N89,097,888,609.00 as revenue for November. The Customs Area Controller (CAC) of the command, Comptroller Malanta Yusuf, made this known in a statement signed on...
Chelsea squeezed past Watford 2-1 to maintain their slender lead at the top of the Premier League on Wednesday night. Mason Mount was decisive for the league leaders, scoring the 29th-minute opener and then setting up Hakim Ziyech for the winner after Watford had equalized from Bonaventure’s deflected 43rd-minute...
The central interest of this piece is not to spot leadership faults in Nigeria, or proffer solutions to what the present administration is not doing well to salvage the socioeconomic well being of the poor masses. Rather, the present piece is out to perform two separate but related functions....
Minister, Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, has said that protection of citizens data in Nigeria is not just a secondary legislation but a constitutional requirement. The minister’s spokesperson, Mrs Uwa Suleiman, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, adding that Pantami said this while...
A group, Zamfara State Patriotic Association, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and elders of the All progressives Congress (APC) to save the party from the hands of some dark horses. Chairman of the group, Alhaji Ibrahim Nabature, made the call while addressing a press conference in Gusau, Zamfara,...
The Senate Committee on Agriculture on Wednesday in Abuja said about two million metric tons of rice is currently being imported or smuggled into the country. This is just as the committee said, in 2021, the production of milled rice in Nigeria was estimated to amount to five million...
Some 2.9 billion people still have never used the internet globally and 96 per cent live in developing countries, making the world’s poorest left far behind, a new UN report has found. According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the estimated number of people who have gone online in...