Spotify, a global online streaming platform, says Davido’s music is most streamed in United Kingdom, Nigeria, Canada and France. Victor Okpala, Spotify’s Artiste and Label Partnerships Manager for West Africa, in a statement on Tuesday said songs by Davido featured on over 10 million user-generated playlists on Spotify. According...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – A humanitarian intervention focused on providing integrated food, nutrition sanitation and protection services in Nigeria’s north-east region will empower over 300,000 mothers and caregivers. The intervention is aimed at enhancing dietary practices, home-based malnutrition screening skills, provision of high impact lifesaving nutrition interventions (such...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will on Sunday depart Abuja for London, UK, where he will deliver a public lecture at King’s College, London. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, said the lecture was part of activities for the...
The United Kingdom has earmarked 10 million pounds grant for innovators in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, and South Africa to address the energy situation . Mr Joshua Adedeji, Knowledge Transfer Manager for the Innovate UK Nigeria, said this in statement at the end of an Energy Catalyst meeting...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A Memorandum of Understanding between Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the United Kingdom’s His Royal Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was signed yesterday with the aim of fostering improved collaboration on capacity building between the two tax authorities. The two agencies signed...
Britain said on Thursday it would ban TikTok on government phones with immediate effect, a move to follow other Western countries who have barred the Chinese-owned video app over security concerns. TikTok has come under increasing scrutiny due to fears that user data from the app owned by Beijing-based...
For failing to submit its annual accounts, authorities in the United Kingdom, UK, have struck off Next International (UK) Limited, a company largely owned by Nigerian top politician and presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. Checks by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that the company was removed from the...
The United Kingdom subsidiary of GT Bank has been slapped a N4.1 billion fine (7.6 million pounds) on account of what the country’s financial watchdog assessed as failures in the bank’s anti-money laundering systems and controls. Reuters reported on Tuesday that the bank had paid the fine and it...
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu on Monday insisted that his birth, academic, and professional records are consistent, adding that his critics are only wasting their time and money. Tinubu, 70, stated this during an appearance at Chatham House in London, the United Kingdom....
Barr Kayode Ajulo, a Constitutional Lawyer, has called for the appointment of auxiliary judges to decide cases in courts in a bid to stop some cases going up to the Supreme Court. The legal practitioner told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday that there were...
The United Kingdom (UK) says it is watching closely all political parties, security agents or individuals that act violently or incite people through the social media on the 2023 general election in Nigeria. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Cateriona Lang, stated this when she led a team to...
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after successful routine medical check-up in the United Kingdom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian leader and members of his entourage arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on Sunday evening. While in the UK, President Buhari...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed property linked to Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, former Deputy Senate President. Justice Inyang Ekwo following an ex -parte motion filed and moved by Ibrahim Buba, lawyer to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The News...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has departed from Abuja to London, United Kingdom for a routine medical check-up. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina disclosed this in a statement issued on the in Abuja Mr. Adesina said the president...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has advised the nation’s security establishment and entire citizens to continue being vigilant and careful with security, saying it is important to avoid panic. President Buhari urged citizens to remain calm, saying that the recent changes in travel advice from the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Contrary to a security advisory from the U.S. and United Kingdom, warning of a possible terrorists’ attack in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has insisted that there is no security threat in Abuja. The IGP stated...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has advised British nationals against non-essential travels to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja over threats of possible terrorist attack. The Updated FCDO’s travel Advisory of Oct. 26 was made available to newsmen by the British...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) says Nigeria is now battling with its worst situation of brain drain in history, as no fewer than 10, 296 Nigerian-trained doctors are currently practicing in United Kingdom. Dr Uche Ojinmah, the National President of the association, raised the concern on Monday amidst other...
Britain’s Boris Johnson on Sunday dramatically ended an audacious bid to return to power within weeks of having been ousted, announcing he would not run to replace outgoing leader Liz Truss. The surprise decision, which the ex-leader said he had reached reluctantly after recognising he would not lead “a...