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Two years after President Bola Tinubu signed the National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Act 2024 into law, the Nigeria Labour Congress has declared the ₦70,000 floor unfit for present economic conditions and signalled the start of a fresh round of wage bargaining with the Federal Government, setting up what promises to be one of the…
Football’s most decorated modern forward has offered his clearest assessment yet of the teenager carrying his name, declaring that Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. is already physically ahead of where he was at the same age and will likely grow beyond him. The remark came in a video published by Netflix Sports on Thursday, filmed as…
Eight days before voters in Osun State choose a governor, a wordless Instagram Stories post by Afrobeats star David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has dragged one of Nigerian politics’ oldest and most combustible arguments back into the middle of an already tense campaign: who is qualified, on paper, to govern. Davido, nephew to…
Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak crossed 4,000 cases on Friday as the virus outruns global containment efforts. Figures from the country’s public health institute put total infections at 4,053 and fatalities at 1,850. Health officials describe the current epidemic as the fastest-spreading on record since its official declaration on May 15th. The disease now…
Two executive orders signed at the White House on Thursday, August 6, 2026, have placed Nigerian travellers back at the centre of America’s tightening immigration architecture, barely five weeks after the United States Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s first attempt to redraw the boundaries of birthright citizenship. The first order, titled “Continuing…
Visa applicants heading to the United States may soon have to open up far more of their online lives to consular officers, following reports that the State Department is extending its social media screening programme to foreign journalists and to a category of workers from Canada and Mexico. The reported expansion was first published on…
The White House imposed mandatory price floors and a 15 percent tariff on polysilicon products on Thursday to block Chinese domination of critical tech supply chains. President Donald Trump signed the Section 232 executive proclamation to shield domestic producers of the vital raw material used in computer chips and solar panels. Chinese dumping strategies drove…
Growing old in Nigeria is increasingly a question of luck rather than policy, and the Abia State Government has stepped into that gap with a fresh declaration that old age must never become a sentence of neglect, abuse or abandonment. The pledge was made at the state’s commemoration of the 2026 World Elder Abuse…
Nigeria’s currency closed the trading week on a remarkably even keel, with the naira quoted at about ₦1,368.22 to the United States dollar at the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market on Friday, August 7, 2026, a level that caps one of the longest stretches of exchange rate calm the country has seen since the market…
Nigeria’s mega-refinery near Lagos cemented its status as Europe’s top jet fuel source for a second straight month in July. Ship tracking data shows the giant Lekki plant shipped over 400,000 tonnes of jet fuel to European ports last month. That output captured one-fifth of the continent’s entire aviation fuel import market. The Nigerian facility…
