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Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday, visited his Lagos State counterpart, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to commiserate with him over the recent destruction and killings brought upon upon  Nigeria’s economic capital.   Irate youths and hoodlums took advantage of the #EndSARS protests against police brutality to destroy, kill and maim in Lagos in October.   Speaking […]

While votes are still being counted, Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. President, has launched an official transition website, www.buildbackbetter.com. The move comes as votes are still being counted in many states and the presidential race still undecided. On the www.buildbackbetter.com website is a short statement that reiterates Biden’s earlier assertion that it […]Read More

The Senate on Thursday told State House officials to restrain President Muhammadu Buhari from foreign trips for medical treatment in order to ensure the State House clinic is made functional this year. The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs gave the warning when the State House Permanent Secretary, Tijani Umar, appeared before the […]

Thirty-year-old Nigerian-American, Oye Owolewa, has become the first Nigerian-American to be elected into the  United States Congress.   He was elected into the United States House of Representatives from, the District of Columbia, on the platform of the Democratic Party.   Owolewa  got 164,026  or 81.59% of the votes cast, according to election results on […]

The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, SMBLF, on Wednesday warned that it would no longer fold its arms and watch a section of the country to play any supremacist role over others.   The forum said this in a communique after an emergency meeting held in Abuja.    The communique was signed by Chief […]

  The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Cross River chapter, on Wednesday, embarked on an indefinite strike over the kidnap of its member, Dr Godwin Udo, of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital.   Dr Innocent Abang, the state Chairman of NMA disclosed in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday […]

  The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the pan-African multilateral EXIM bank, partners with the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), the Trade Finance Arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group; and the Arab Bank For Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), to launch a $1.5-billion Collaborative COVID-19 Pandemic Response Facility to support African economies with […]

  …Disburse over N50bn in intervention funds in 3 months.   Fidelity Bank Plc has continued to sustain its impressive run of financial performance with the strong 3rd quarter results for the year, released Monday at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). Details of the results show improvements in key indices though Gross Earnings dropped marginally […]

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Polic, Mohammed Adamu has approved the posting of Deputy Inspector-General of Police,  Sanusi N. Lemu, and Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, as heads of  the Department of Operations and Department of Finance and Administration, respectively.   A statement issued on Tuesday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, a […]

The Nigerian government on Tuesday denied it has begun compiling a   ‘no-fly list’ of youths who participated in the #ENDSARS protests.   The Federal Ministry of Interior stated this in a tweet on Tuesday in reaction to a media report by an online publication.    “The Ministry of Interior did not, has not and will […]

  The Nigeria Immigration Service on Monday prevented a promoter of the #EndSARS movement, Modupe Odele, from travelling out of the country.   Although the officers did not disclose the reason for their action, it is believed that the action was taken because of her alleged role in the #EndSARS protests.   Odele, a corporate […]