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President Bola Tinubu has declared that the sweeping economic reforms of his administration have shielded Nigeria from fiscal breakdown, stating that decisions taken since May 2023 blocked a daily haemorrhage of N18.4bn previously lost to fuel subsidies and over N8tn drained through foreign exchange arbitrage. The President made the disclosure on Thursday in a…
Jeff Bezos’s space venture, Blue Origin, suffered a catastrophic setback when its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket exploded during a routine engine test in Florida. The blast occurred during a scheduled hot-fire procedure at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, lighting up the night sky and shaking nearby homes. While company officials confirmed that all ground personnel…
The Nigeria Union of Teachers has issued its sternest warning yet, threatening to shut down schools across the country if another attack occurs in any educational institution, following a devastating wave of abductions and killings that has swept through schools in Oyo, Borno, and Kebbi States. The NUT President, Titus Amba, declared that the…
Africa’s largest labour federations have formally rejected the Mission 300 electrification initiative jointly backed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank, warning that the ambitious programme risks plunging the continent into deeper indebtedness while failing to deliver sustainable electricity access to the estimated 600 million Africans still living without power. The…
The Presidency has called for legal action against social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), over the circulation of an alleged doctored audio recording involving President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, escalating an already tense relationship between the Tinubu administration and one of Nigeria’s most influential online personalities. Special Adviser to the President…
Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has voiced strong concern over the persistent abduction and prolonged captivity of Nigerian schoolchildren, warning that the country’s inability to protect its youngest citizens reflects a national failure that has begun to define Nigeria’s standing in the global community. His intervention follows a particularly devastating three day…
US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, the high profile body assembled to oversee the reconstruction of war torn Gaza, currently holds zero dollars in its official fund despite member nations publicly pledging billions, according to a Financial Times investigation published Wednesday. The disclosure casts fresh scrutiny on an initiative that has already drawn…
The Agbekoya Farmers’ Society of Nigeria has raised fresh alarm over the fate of victims abducted from schools in Esinele, Yamota and Alawusa communities in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, alleging that the kidnappers are now ferrying their captives through dense forests across neighbouring states in a deliberate bid to evade security operatives….
A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, Ibrahim Wala, has thrown his weight behind the rejection of the party’s recently concluded presidential primary election, describing the process as a betrayal of the democratic principles the opposition party claims to champion. The development follows a public rejection of the primary results by former Minister of Transportation…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday reserved judgment in the trial of five men accused of orchestrating the June 5, 2022 terrorist attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, in which 41 worshippers were killed and over 140 others injured. Presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, fixed judgment for a…
