The coordinator of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Ondo State, Dr. Habibu Yahaya, has disclosed that Nigeria loses about $1.2 billion to medical tourism annually due to what he described as the fragility of the country’s health system. Yahaya disclosed this as the keynote speaker during the 4th Annual Public Health Grand Round held [&he...
•Adekunle Gold Afrobeats singer Adekunle Gold has credited multiple first-class students from various universities with N250,000 each. This gesture came after he invited students to share their transcripts on X, sparking a flood of responses from internet users, reports The Nation. “If you graduated with First class, post your transcripts,” he...
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate has further eased, settling at 22.22% in June 2025, down from 22.97% in May 2025, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) Report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) today. This marks a decrease of 0.76 percentage points compared to May 2025. On a year-on-year basis, the headline inflation [...
•Oil rig There were fresh fears over the execution of Nigeria’s N54.99 trillion 2025 budget, yesterday, as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, put Nigeria’s crude oil output, excluding condensate, at 1.547 million barrels per day, bpd in June 2025. This showed a marginal increase of 1.24 per cent from 1.528 million bpd rec...
•Senator Dickson Senator Seriake Dickson, representing Bayelsa West in the National Assembly, has accused the Nigerian political class of committing political suicide by undermining the country’s democratic institutions and processes. Speaking on the theme “Safeguarding Nigeria’s Democracy Through Unity and Resolve,” in Abuja yeste...
•Nigeria Air Force aircraft The remains of former President Muhammadu Buhari, this morning, departed London, the United Kingdom, for Daura, Katsina State, ahead of a state burial. The corpse of the late president was conveyed on a Nigerian Air Force craft, reports The PUNCH. Vice President Kashim Shettima is, leading a high-level federal gover...
•NNPC boss, Bayo Ojulari Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Bayo Ojulari, has stated that the company may sell off some of its refineries as it continues to face setbacks in their rehabilitation. Ojulari made the disclosure during an interview with Bloomberg yesterday at the 9th OPEC Intern...
•Tinubu and Trump Nigeria won’t cave in to pressure from the Donald Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees from the United States, the Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar has said. Tuggar, who was a guest on Channels Television yesterday, said Nigeria has enough challenges of its own and won’t be a dumping ground for Venezuelan ...
•Super Eagles Nigeria’s Super Eagles have dropped one spot in the latest FIFA World Rankings released today, slipping from 43rd to 44th globally. Despite the marginal fall, Nigeria remains firmly among Africa’s football heavyweights, maintaining its position as the fifth-best team on the continent, reports Vanguard. The Super Eagles trail only...
•Chekwas Okorie Founding member and first national chairman of the All Grand Progressives Alliance (APGA) Chief Chekwas Okorie, has said that no political party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, African Democratic Congress (ADC) or any other party can address Nigeria’s problem, except the country is restructured. Okorie who spoke with our ...
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