AfDB To Begin Disbursement Of $540m SAPZs Fund
… It is time to walk the talk, says VP Shettima All is set for the African Development Bank (@AfDB_Group) to commence the disbursement of $540 million to the first phase of states in Nigeria for the development of Special Agro-Industrial Processing…
Police Fire Teargas As Irate Niger State Women And Youths Protest Over Hardship
Some women and youths have taken to the streets of Minna, Niger State to protest over the seemingly biting hardship and the rising cost of living in the country. A group of women had blocked the Minna-Bida Road at the popular Kpakungu Roundabout and were…
Hard Times: Tinubu Should Give A Preference Treatment To Kano State — Governor Yusuf
The Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf has lamented the misery, starvation, and acute hunger in the state. Governor Yusuf in an emergency meeting with the business community in Kano on Monday, decried the current hardship and starvation…
More Than 50% Certificates Of Imported Pharmaceutical Products Are Fake — NAFDAC
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC has said more than 50 percent of certificates of imported pharmaceutical products are fake. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, made this known at the stakeholders’…
ISWAP Fighters Open Fire On Borno Police Station, Kill Officers
Suspected fighters of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have attacked a police station in Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno State, killing four policemen while carting away ammunitions. The ISWAP terrorists had stormed the police station…
Tinubu, Nigeria Is Sinking And Streets Are Full Of Tears — Kperogi
The searing torment that everyday folks are going through in Nigeria right now is so dire, so unbearably extreme, and so unexampled in its rawness that even diasporan Nigerians like me who live tens of thousands of miles away from home can feel it not…
Influential Northern Senator Under Investigation For Financing Terrorism/Kidnapping
An unnamed Northern Senator has been fingered for allegedly spearheading terrorism, banditry and Kidnapping. The lawmaker who is being watched by security agencies in the country, is said to be heading a sensitive committee in the Senate. According to…
EFCC Secures 747 Convictions, Recovers N70 Billion In 100 Days
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has announced that it recovered a total of N70bn within 100 days, between October 2023 and January 19, 2024. An EFCC document outlined details of the recovery in a document titled, ‘Operations and…
UK Air Force Officer, Falegan Offers To Train Amotekun Operatives Free
A British Royal Air Force member, Opeyemi Falegan has said he is ready to train at no cost the operatives of Western Security Network otherwise called ‘Amotekun’ on security management. Falegan who made this known in a statement in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State…
81 Percent Of Working Nigerians Do Not Add Value To The Economy – Presidential Tax Reform Committee Chair, Taiwo Oyedele
The Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reform Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has revealed that about 81 percent of employed Nigerians are not in any productive sector of the economy. Oyedele who made this known on Thursday at the Africa Trade…