Nigeria has signed a Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) with Brazil to deepen economic, cultural, and diplomatic ties between the two countries. The Special Adviser on Media and Communications to the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Tunde Moshood, disclosed this in a statement yesterday. He said the signing ceremony took pla...
•Governor Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir (center) Bauchi State governor, Senator Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir, yesterday, said policies of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), are inflicting pains on Nigerians, calling for reversal of the policies. Bala Mohammed declared that the APC administration has, through its...
•Wale Edun The Senate has summoned various stakeholders and operators in the petroleum sector for interrogation over alleged economic sabotage in the sector, just as it said that Nigeria as a country is bleeding. The Senate Ad – hoc committee that has been mandated to carry out a holistic investigation over alleged economic sabotage in [&helli...
•Oba of Benin The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Oba Ewuare II, has called on the federal government to intensify efforts in the implementation of its economic policies to cushion the effects of hardship on the people. Oba Ewuare II, who made the call through his Chief Press Secretary, Osaigbovo Iguobaro, in Benin today, […]
•Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman The federal government has announced a slash in allowances of foreign scholars who are currently stranded in Russia, Morocco, and Algeria, among others by 12.7% due to economic hardship in Nigeria. The federal government’s decision to slash the scholars’ allowances was contained in a memo signed by the...
•Nze Chidi Duru Deputy National Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress Nze Chidi Duru, shares his thoughts with Sunday PUNCH about the economic hardship in the country, President Bola Tinubu’s reforms, and the political crisis rocking Kano and Rivers states, among other issues. Excerpts: What’s your assessment of President Bola ...
•Containers seen in a port The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its forecast for Nigeria’s economic growth in 2024 to 3.1 per cent. The downgrade is contained in a newly released report ‘in the July 2024 World Economic Outlook’ published yesterday. The IMF cited a weaker growth recorded in the first quarter of the […]
•A market place Nigeria’s inflation figure has reached a new high, hitting 34.19 % for June 2024, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of State Statistics (NBS). This is an increase of 0.24% points when compared to the inflation figure for May 2024 released by the NBS. “In June 2024, the headline […]
A housewife, Kafayat Ajoke, begged an Ilorin Court for divorce over husband, Aminullahi Ibrahim’s inability to provide food for his family. The petitioner also sought custody of the two children and N100,000 monthly as maintenance and feeding allowance. “I noticed that my husband changed after he lost his job one year ago. “He does not [&helli...
It is a tale of woes as an acute scarcity of one of Nigerians’ most popular staple foods, bread, has hit Kaduna, Katsina, and Kano states. Checks by our correspondents revealed that the most-favoured staple was now as scarce as petrol or the highly-prized precious metal, Gold, reports NAN. It was observed that whereas the […]

