Sunday, May 4, 2025
The $1.96bn Kano-Katsina-Jigawa-Maradi rail project is still ongoing despite the recent tensions between Nigeria and the Niger Republic. Arewa PUNCH reports that the Kano-Katsina-Jigawa-Maradi rail project, which was approved by the Federal Executive Council in September 2020, aims to connect Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa states in Nigeria with Maradi in […]
Trump Bars Transgender Women From U.S. Female Prisons President Trump has issued an executive order banning transgender women from being housed in men’s federal prisons. He also ordered that any medical treatments related to gender transition be halted, according to a New York Times report. The ban was part of […]
Manufacturing companies across all sub-sectors of the Manufacturing sector recorded approximately N1.4 trillion worth of unsold inventories in 2024. The President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Mr. Francis Meshioye, who shared the data at a Press briefing on Wednesday, attributed the loss to the high inflation rate and a […]
The Director-General of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ajayi-Kadir, has advised the Nigerian government against using the rebasing of the Gross Domestic Product calculation and other economic reforms to downplay the country’s economic challenges. Mr. Ajayi-Kadir gave this counsel at a press briefing in Lagos on Wednesday. Nairametrics […]
Sierra Leone National carrier, Air Sierra Leone, has resumed its scheduled flight operations between Lagos and Freetown after over 15 years of inactiveness. Air Sierra Leone returned to Nigeria in partnership with a Nigerian airline, XEJet. While XEjet provides technical support to the airline, it also provides three operational aircraft […]
A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday heard a request made by four Democratic-led states to issue a temporary restraining order against the executive order signed by Trump that purports […]
In a jaw-dropping revelation at the ongoing trial of former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, a bureau de change (BDC) operator, Abdullahi Suleman, has exposed how over ₦22 billion was funneled through his accounts in a suspected money-laundering scheme. Eyes Of Lagos reports, Mamman is being prosecuted by the Economic […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification and release of long-secret files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Trump, 78, announced the actions in the Oval Office — after decades of speculation […]
President Donald Trump said he would ask Saudi Arabia and other Opec nations to “bring down the cost of oil” and doubled-down on his threat to use tariffs. In a speech to executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, the US president said he was ‘surprised’ that […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGknY2KItIY?si=z-8rorzhKWVrQjyU President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Performs the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Construction of the new Armed Forces Headquarters Complex in Abuja.. REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, BOLA TINUBU GCFR, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF NIGERIA, AT THE GROUND-BREAKING CEREMONY FOR THE DEFENCE COMPLEX ABUJA THURSDAY, 23 JANUARY 2025 […]