Nyesom Wike, the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and immediate past Governor of Rivers State, once commanded significant respect as a formidable figure in Nigerian politics. From his days as a Minister of State for Education under…
NIGERIA’s President Bola Tinubu has written to the National Assembly to approve a fresh N1.767 trillion as a new external borrowing plan in the 2024 appropriation act. According to the president, the loan is based on an exchange rate…
THE Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has approved the implementation of N70,000 national minimum wage for workers of the FCT Administration. The acting Head of Civil Service in the FCT, Mrs Grace Adayilo, who announced…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Tuesday forwarded the names of three Resident Electoral Commissioners to the Senate for approval. President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio made this known during the Tuesday plenary. The House subsequently referred the request to the committee…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affair and the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) to bring back no fewer than 270 Nigerians currently imprisoned or detained in Kaliti Prison, Ethiopia. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in…
A court in Hong Kong on Tuesday sentenced 45 democracy activists to prison terms of up to 10 years for violations of Beijing’s controversial national security law. The trial of the group known as the “Hong Kong 47” was the…
PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to declare a national emergency on border security and use the US military to carry out a mass deportation of undocumented Nigerians and other migrants. ExxonMobil graduate internship Immigration was a top issue in…
I am not a medical doctor, so let me start with an apology to those whose field of study I am invading today, but I must confess, my action is necessitated by the unending embarrassment former President Obasanjo is visiting…
NIGERIA’s investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, has released videos confirming that the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) between Saturday night and early hours of Sunday successfully smuggled over 2000 cars containing over 6,500,000kg of rice into Nigeria in trickles through Badagry, Lagos…
CHELSEA have been handed a triple injury boost ahead of their Premier League clash with Leicester City this weekend. This comes after three key players – Cole Palmer, Levi Colwill and Jadon Sancho – were spotted back in Chelsea’s first-team…
