•Ebaide Joy A Nigerian lady, Ebaide Joy, is set to become the first person to ride on a motorbike from Mombasa, Kenya to Lagos, Nigeria. Ebaide, who began the journey on March 10, 2024, is expected to arrive Lagos, Nigeria, by the end of the month, reports The Nation. The trip will take her through […]
•Ibrahim Some eminent northern leaders have kicked against the establishment of French and American military bases in Nigeria following their forced exit from neighbouring Francophone West African neighbours Niger Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso. One of the leaders, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, warned that Nigeria would be “setting itself up for battl...
•Iwuanyanwu High Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, has explained that the Igbos will suffer more than other tribes in Nigeria if the country fails, calling on Nigerians from the South-East, both home and in the Diaspora, to support President Bola Tinubu’s administration to succeed. Iwuanyanwu stated this...
The Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) has documented over 10,000 species of medicinal plants in its move to boost the country’s traditional medicine sector. According to the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA), the documentation is part of the agency’s efforts to develop and promote traditional medicine, repor...
•NoOnes CEO, Ray Youssef The Chief Executive Officer of one of the leading cryptocurrency platforms in Nigeria, NoOnes, Ray Youssef, has revealed that peer-to-peer popularly known as P2P is probably like $500bn business in Nigeria alone. Youssef said this in an interview with Techpoint Africa on the heels of an imminent ban on cryptocurrency i...
In Nigeria, workers’ rights are determined by a series of game-changing events in the country’s history. These include the fight for self-rule, legislation on labour laws as well as labour union formations which have all had a great impact on the improvement and security of the rights for Nigerian workers. Here are six historical moments [&hel...
•Funke Bucknor The Chief Executive Officer of Zapphire Events, Funke Bucknor, has shared her experience on how her adventure into wedding planning more than 20 years ago, changed the perception of the public towards the business in Nigeria. While addressing the audience at the yearly Non-Profit initiative of Covenant Christian Centre, geared p...
•Petrol scarcity Acute shortage of petrol in Lagos, Abuja and other parts of the country has begun crippling economic activities across the country. Tongues are wagging as to how the horror has persisted for close to two weeks and has defied solutions currently being administered by the government, reports Daily Sun. The price of the […...
•Prince Harry and wife, Meghan Markle The Duke of Dutchess, Prince Harry, and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, will visit Nigeria in May. In a statement today, the Defence Headquarters’ Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, said during their stay in the country, they will be meeting with service members...
•Tinubu The federal government’s economic and monetary policies may have widened the gap between the rich and the poor in the past nine months. Also, the recent policies in the financial and energy sector have created the path to further widening of the gap in the months and probably years ahead without any sign of […]