The nation’s traditional rulers have urged the federal government to bring down the high cost of living, petroleum products, electricity tariff and agricultural inputs. The traditional rulers has also identified serious level of unemployment and the economic challenges facing the ...
The Nigeria women’s basketball team, DTigress, was not allowed to board the delegation’s boat for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. A witness spoke to the Associated Press on Friday on the condition of anonymity because the Nigerian delegation ...
A Nigerian man identified as Anthony Esan, 24, from Kent, United Kingdom has been arraigned for ambushing and stabbing a senior Army officer repeatedly with a large knife before fleeing. Lt Col Mark Teeton was outside his home near Brompton ...
A year three (300-level) Computer Science student at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in Bauchi, Naja’atu Salisu, was discovered unconscious in the bathroom of her female hostel on Friday morning, leading to her untimely death. Naja’atu had gone to the ...
The need for Nigerians to demand transparency and accountability in the execution of public projects has been re-emphasised. This formed the basis of discussions between members of the Community of Practice (COP) under the Project Trust Initiative of a nongovernmental ...
President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the Sector-wide Coordinating Office-Programme Management Unit (SCO-PMU) for the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative (NHSRII). This is to ensure efficient, transparent, and accountable management of external grants mobilized towards the implementation ...
Inspector General of Police, Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun has directed all groups planning to protest against hunger, hardship and economic meltdown in Nigeria to provide necessary details to the Commissioner of Police in the state where the protest is intended to ...
Ahead of the nationwide protest against economic hardship in the country, the Nigeria Police High Command has urged citizens willing to stage any form of protest to immediately seek for permit from the Force and submit the necessary details including ...
Market women in Edo State on Thursday, protested over alleged plan by President Bola Tinubu’s daughter, Folasade Tinubu to impose an Iyaloja on them. The women who were seen in a video, speaking in their native language, vowed to restrict ...
Isn’t it ironic that barely one year and few months that the President Bola Tinubu took over the reins of powers, the Nigerian economy is bleeding and is now worse than the eight years that former President Muhammadu Buhari spent ...
The inspector-general of police, IGP Olukayode Egbetokun, has said that the Nigeria Police Police (NPF) has identified foreign sponsors of the planned August 1-10 protest with the ulterior motives of causing mayhem and violence, which could lead to massive destruction ...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar-led National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, has advised President Bola Tinubu to address the high cost of living by reducing the prices of petroleum products, electricity tariffs, and agricultural inputs. Rising from ...
Adewole Adebayo, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 election, has said Nigeria’s problems are beyond protests. Legit reports that as in Kenya, organisers of the proposed Nigerian protests have been largely faceless, calling for ...
The Inspector General of Police (IGP),Kayode Egbetokun , on Friday, charged Nigerians planning to participate in the proposed nationwide protest to submit their details to the Commissioners of Police in their respective states. TGM gathered that Egbetokun stated this while ...
In the letter dated Friday, July 26, 2024, the senior advocate writing as solicitor to the Take It Back Movement stated that the planned rallies will commence from Aug. 1 to 10, 2024, or any time thereafter at the Eagle ...
A former Director, Department of State Services, Mike Ejiofor, has said the protest staged to kick against attempts by former President Goodluck Jonathan-led government to remove petrol subsidy in 2012 didn’t turn violent partly because of ‘the body language’ of ...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has declared war on protesters it said may cause mayhem and destroy properties in the nation’s capital during the planned August nationwide protests. It has therefore deployed 4,200 personnel across the FCT. THE ...
President Bola Tinubu has reportedly sacked Sani Auwalu Balarabe as the chief of the Intercountry Centre for Oral Health for Africa. According to People’s Gazette, Balarabe was fired on July 18 for allegedly embezzling N1.4 billion when he was ICOH ...
The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has revealed that foreign mercenaries are involved in the planned nationwide protests scheduled for August 1st. The police chief made the revelation while addressing journalists in Abuja on Friday. Egbetokun warned Nigerians to ...
Nigeria’s economy has recorded its fastest first-quarter growth in six years, the minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, Mr. Wale Edun, has declared. He made the assertion yesterday in Abuja at the newly introduced quarterly media briefing. ...
President Bola Tinubu has allayed fears of manipulation by any interest group in the ongoing economic reforms, saying his campaign was self-sponsored, without strings, or indebtedness to any individual or institution. According to a statement issued by Ajuri Ngelale, Special ...
This move comes as the bond between one of Africa’s most influential leaders and its richest man faces increasing tension, amid Nigeria’s struggles with soaring inflation. Aliko Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest individual, has sought the mediation of Gilbert Chagouri, a Lebanese ...
The accusations, counteraccusations and rebuttals in the oil and gas business today began on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. This was during the Afreximbank Annual Meetings and AfriCarribean Trade and Investment Forum in Nassau, The Bahamas. It was there, far away ...
Nigeria’s Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, on Thursday, reported a dramatic drop in the debt service ratio from an alarming 97 per cent in June 2023 to a more sustainable 68 per cent in 2024. Addressing ...
Nigeria’s 10th Senate was inaugurated on June 13, 2023. Godswill Akpabio became the Senate President in 2023. The members of the 10th Senate elected him after a closely contested election. Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State, won the ...
The senator representing Borno South, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has said that he will continue to be a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as long as Borno State Governor Professor Babagana Umara Zulum remains in the party. Ndume ...
When women dream of motherhood, I doubt any of us imagine leaving our children motherless in this world. When we plan out our whole lives with our children, we pray for the grace to watch them grow old and even ...
The recent announcement by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Nigeria approving 140 and 100 as the cut-off marks for university and polytechnic admissions respectively has once again brought to light the complex and often controversial role of ...
The Global President of Initiative for Better and Brighter Nigeria( IBBN )Prophet Isa El-buba has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently give strong Power and backing to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to investigate and uproot ...
The House of Representatives has promised to fast-track the second reading of a proposed bill aimed at enabling the private sector to invest in railway transportation. The Chairman of the House Committee on Land Transport, Blessing Onuh, stated this while ...