•Osimhen (right) receives CAF AWARD 2023 Victor Osimhen has been crowned the 2023 African Footballer of the Year in a momentous event that solidified his status as one of the best players in the world. Osimhen saw off competition from Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi and Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah. Today’s award capped off a sterling year […...
The federal government has given a hint of possible increments to the estimate for the 2024 budget if the revenue side increases. Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, disclosed this today when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Finance. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had recently, formally presented a budget estimate of N27.5 trillion to the [...
•Fubara and Wike The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, is currently meeting with the members of the state executive council. It was gathered that the meeting is holding at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital, reports Daily Trust. The emergency meeting followed the defection of 27 members of the 32-member House [...
•Rivers State House of Assembly The ongoing political drama in Rivers State has taken a very interesting turn as 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). A member of the Assembly, Enemi George, confirmed to our correspondent that the […...
President Bola Tinubu has reneged on one of the legal and moral demands on public office holders to declare their assets upon the assumption of office, for transparency purposes. More than six months after assumption of office, taking oath of office and swearing allegiance to State and the rule of law, President Tinubu has no […]
•Ugorji and Tinubu The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev Luicius Ugorji, has decried Nigeria’s endless borrowing of humongous sums of money to fund personal lifestyles of public office holders, describing it as anachronistic, unconscionable, wasteful and anti-people. Ugorji, Archbishop of Owerri Metropoli...
•ECOWAS meeting West African leaders meet today for talks with the region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts. After coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger since 2020, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc also saw member states Sie...
•A child injured by the bombing Last Sunday, December 3, Nigerians were astonished to hear the sad news of the bombing and killing of innocent villagers by the military at Tudun Biri village, in Kaduna State. The villagers in their hundreds were said to have gathered to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, when the […]
Sixteen days to this year’s Christmas, many Nigerians have said they do not have plans to travel out of their locations to mark the season as a result of insecurity, high cost of transportation and the general economic hardship in the country. They blame the situation on the removal of fuel subsidy and weakening of […]
•Food market Many families risk celebrating the approaching Christmas and New Year in hardship due to the hike in the prices of goods and services, and are devising life-changing ways to cut costs. Several families told our correspondents that life had become tougher for them as a result of the economic hardship in the country […]