The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), yesterday, lambasted the Federal Government, saying there is nothing for Nigerians to celebrate, as the country marks its 62nd Independence anniversary tomorrow, October 1. University lecturers have for more than seven months embarked [...]
Nigerian rapper, Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz, has reacted to the burning of 194 billion Naira worth of cocaine by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Last week, the agency reported a large scale drug bust carried out in [...]
The Bayelsa State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dennis Otiotio, has said that the former President, Goodluck Jonathan, is officially not yet a member of the APC in the state. He said this in a telephone chat with The [...]
The Indian police have arrested two suspected Nigerian drug dealers with different quantities of drugs in Horamavu, Bengaluru. The suspects have been identified as Sixtus Uche (30) and Chukwudbem Henry (34). They were arrested on Saturday and charged for drug [...]
The United Kingdom (UK) has “temporarily suspended” its flexi appointment service for visa applicants in Nigeria. The service allows the submission of applications during the opening hours of the visa application centre (VAC) or before and after the applicant’s scheduled [...]
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has said that the President, Major gen Muhammadu Buhari will live in Kaduna after the end of his tenure in 2023. The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory stated this on Tuesday [...]
Police intelligence at SCID Panti, Yaba, have commenced an extensive investigation to know the motive behind a 24-year old man, who was caught with 8 pieces of 600mm mortar bomb explosives in Lagos State. P.M.EXPRESS reports that disaster may have [...]
The late former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, will be laid to rest on November 5, 2021. Obadia died on September 19, 2021, at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada. A former [...]
Nigerian doctors, under the umbrella of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Monday morning, suspended its nationwide industrial action, about nine weeks after it commenced. The development, Hope For Nigeria Online learnt, followed a marathon emergency meeting of the association [...]
Fitch Ratings, an Internationally renowned rating agency, has upgraded Lagos State ratings from AA+ (nga) to AAA(nga) for its good standing in terms of its debt sustainability and resilience. A statement on Monday titled ‘Fitch upgrades Lagos ratings to AAA, [...]
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows to Sub-Saharan Africa decreased by 12 per cent to $30 billion, with investment growing in only a few countries. In West Africa, inflows to Nigeria increased slightly, from $2.3 billion in 2019 to $2.4 billion. [...]
Eighteen people died in Nigeria on Thursday as a result of COVID-19 complications, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has said. The new fatality figure raised the death toll to 2, 117 in total, the agency said on its official [...]
When the presidential campaign of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was formally inaugurated in January 2015, then candidate Muhammadu Buhari promised to tackle corruption and insecurity, and develop the economy. Mr Buhari, a former military head of state, told members [...]
Master Warrant Officer Saidu Afaka, official driver of President Muhammadu Buhari, who was recently detained by the Department of State Services after tricking his principal to sign a fraudulent document to make millions of naira is dead. A statement by [...]
Six persons suspected to be internet fraudsters popularly known as Yahoo Boys on Friday night reportedly perished in a lone accident in Ughelli area of Delta State. The accident which involved a Lexus SUV occurred near Ekiugbo junction along the [...]
The Kaduna State government has revealed that troops of the Nigerian Army have rescued 180 citizens abducted by gunmen in the state on Friday. The state said the citizens were abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Igabi [...]
Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has received his own jab of the COVID-19 vaccine, Igbere TV reports. This comes immediately after the President was given his own shot also on live TV. This development comes after some frontline health workers were vaccinated [...]
Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s former military head of state from 1966 to 1975, has described allegations of fraud levelled against him by a British member of parliament as concocted. MP Tom Tugendhat while proposing sanctions for the Nigerian Government officials complicit [...]
The court papers donating charges brought against Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos, and tax consultancy firm, Alpha Beta Consulting, by a former Managing Director of the company, Dapo Apara, has been burnt according to claims by Tade Ipadeola, [...]
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has said he is ready to forgive the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), if he tenders an apology. Ortom stated this on Wednesday, while speaking to newsmen during the [...]
Nigeria Union of Traders Association in Ghana (NUTAG) on Monday decried Ghanaian authorities’ refusal to open shops owned by Nigerians, even after several meetings between top officials of both governments. President of NUTAG, Mr Chukwuemeka Nnaji disclosed this in a [...]
House of Representatives spokesman, Hon. Benjamin Kalu has dismissed media reports that reason behind Tuesday’s visit of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio to the National Assembly was to settle issues with regards to the probe of the [...]
Trump, in a telephone conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari in April, pledged to support Nigeria’s response to COVID-19 by sending ventilators. However, the ventilators got to Nigeria five months after the US president made the promise. While receiving 200 ventilators [...]
Ace Nigerian reggae dancehall artiste, Patoranking has Splashed a whopping $222,000 approximately N85 Million on a brand new Lamborgini Urus 2020 The singer shared a short dance video of his latest single “Abule” on his verified Instagram page yesterday in [...]
The administration of President Buhari and VP Osinbajo is determined to leave a lasting legacy in Nigeria’s infrastructural landscape through SUKUK Funds. Rail, roads, bridges are all taking major facelifts where available and new ones being constructed where not. The [...]
The Ogun State Government has assured residents of Ojodu Abiodun, Akute in Ifo Local Government Area of the State that the State Government would immediately commence work on the 4.65-kilometre road at the end of the current raining season, with [...]
Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Kalu; President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila on Friday met privately in Abuja. Igbere TV gathered that Senator Orji Kalu, a former governor of Abia, also met separately [...]
Lagos residents who are unable to get themselves tested in government own facilities would henceforth pay N50,400 in a private laboratory to conduct COVID-19 test. The state’s commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi disclosed this while launching the Lagos State [...]
A prominent chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and a leader in Ngwa land in Abia state, Chief Allen Nwachukwu has died. ABN TV report that Chief Nwachukwu died in the early hours of Thursday. [...]
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