•Cattle eat their feed at T-Bar Dairy in Porterville, California The federal government has announced plans to import dairy cattle from Denmark as part of a strategy to reduce dairy product imports, which cost the country $1.5 billion annually. The Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Maiha, stated this yesterday as the country aims to doubl...
•ATM Days after the Central Bank of Nigeria ordered Deposit Money Banks to guard against artificial cash scarcity in the country, findings have revealed that the trend still persists in some parts of the country. In a circular dated November 29, jointly signed by Acting Directors Solaja Olayemi (Currency Operations) and Isa-Olatinwo Aisha (Bra...
•Fuel queue Nigerians have expressed anger and frustration over the prolonged scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, across various states nationwide. It was observed yesterday that the scarcity of petrol led to widespread queues by motorists at filling stations in Abuja, Kaduna, Niger, Adamawa, Kano, Bauchi, and Delta, amo...
•Photo of a poisonous snake If you, a man, were bitten by a snake as you slept, what would your first reaction be? To scream? Dive out of bed? Run? Santosh Lohar had a different reaction and bit the snake to death in retaliation, reports MailOnline UK. The 35-year-old from Panduka, Kharkhand in India, had […]
Nigerians affected by the rising cost of living obtained credit facilities worth N3.82tn from banks as of January 2024, the Central Bank of Nigeria has stated. An analysis of the latest monthly economic report posted on its website revealed that the total consumer credit rose by 11.9 per cent to N3.82tn in January 2024, driven, […]
•Ajaero President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr. Joe Ajaero, has said that organized labour may increase the minimum wage demand for N615,000 if the raging inflationary pressures, increased tariffs, taxes and rising cost of petrol and other economic challenges persist. Ajaero made this assertion when he led a delegation from the NLC on a ...
•Petrol scarcity Motorists in Lagos are currently contending with acute shortage of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol over what industry observers described as massive drop in import level. Their counterparts in Abuja and many parts of the north are currently agonising as they now sleep at filling stations to get the vital pr...
•Fuel scarcity Fuel scarcity is biting hard on Kaduna residents as motorists are forced to buy the product for as high as N1, 100 per liter from black marketers. Our correspondent reports that many passengers going to work and their business premises were stranded following the scarcity of fuel across the state and very few […]

