Saturday, April 19, 2025
Four hundred Nigerians including 90 females and 310 males have been deported from the United Arab Emirates, UAE, the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, reports. They were received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by the office of the National Security Adviser alongside the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally […]
Presidency on Tuesday blamed the current state of the nation’s refineries, including Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries on the opposition by labour to federal government plans to sell them to Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola. Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser to the president on information and strategy, revealed this, […]
No fewer than 4,000 Kano civil servants benefiting from tenure elongation granted by the administration of former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje are expected to retire by December 1, 2024. The state government has completed an investigation, screening, and data assessment of the affected civil servants who were enjoying the tenure elongation […]
The United Kingdom (UK) Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has charged Olumide Osunkoya, a 45-year-old London resident, for allegedly operating an unregistered network of cryptocurrency automated teller machines (ATMs). Similar to a bank ATM, crypto ATMs are machines that allow users to exchange standard money for cryptocurrency. Crypto ATMs connect to […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJSfSHVImw?si=WCcN8KJ3MAEPPclR Why Osimhen, Chelsea deal collapsed – Mikel Obi By Enitan Daramola Former Super Eagles midfielder John Obi Mikel has revealed why Nigerian striker, Victor Osimhen’s proposed switch from Napoli to Chelsea collapsed on deadline day. The 25-year-old who was heavily linked to The Blues and other suitors in France, […]
Dickson Ndiema is reported to have suffered 30% burns after setting fire to Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei with petrol during an attack in Kenya. Dickson Ndiema, the former partner of Rebecca Cheptegei, has died in hospital A man accused of killing a Ugandan Olympian by setting her on fire […]
Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation, Austin Eguavoen, has denied stepping down as the interim coach of the Super Eagles after the two 2025 AFCON qualifiers against the Benin Republic and Rwanda. Eguavoen was appointed by the NFF to take charge of the two games following the inability of […]
The federal government of Nigeria spent a total of $2.78 billion on debt servicing in the first seven months of 2024, data released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revealed. These figures were disclosed in the CBN’s recent ‘International Payments Data’ report, which also showed that Nigeria recorded $1.18 […]
Oil marketers are concerned about the delay in announcing the price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, being produced by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, as they noted that the landing cost of imported PMS is now about N1,120/litre. Dealers stated that a high PMS price from the Dangote refinery […]
In a fresh agreement between President Bola Tinubu and his counterpart in the People’s Republic of China, President Xi Jinping, Nigeria has dumped Taiwan for One-China policy, THISDAY has learnt.This is just as China may have agreed to put pressure on Russia not to be meddlesome in Mali, Niger Republic […]