•Cyberattacks Official reports of multiple cyber-attacks on both government and private digital infrastructure have exposed Nigeria’s Information and Technology (IT) security vulnerability in the outgoing year, 2023. According to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NiTDA), Nigeria, S/Africa, Egypt and Kenya lose $2.4bn annu...
•Bishop Timothy Yahaya In his Christmas message to Nigerians, the Archbishop of Anglican communion, Kaduna Diocese, Bishop Timothy Yahaya, has said that proliferation of unlicensed religious leaders is responsible for ethno-religious and socio-political crisis in the country. Bishop Yahaya noted that a trained and licensed religious leader wou...
Presenting Top 10 Nigerian songs for Week 51 ending Saturday December 23, 2023 as rated by MATILDA SHOWBIZ. Enjoy. 10. Do I (Remix) – Phyno feat. Burna Boy 9. Different Pattern – Seyi Vibez 8. Holy Ghost – Omah Lay 7. Egwu – Chiké, Mohbad 6. Cast – Shallipopi feat. ODUMODUBLVCK 5. Twe Twe – […]
•Shoe seller Bidemi Bello attends to a costumer while selling sandals at her stall in the Balogun Market Lining up, they receive some rice, dried beans and other basic foodstuffs, whose soaring prices have left millions in Nigeria facing a bleak Christmas. The temporary food distribution in the Church of the Assumption courtyard in the [&helli...
•Mami Wata The hope for a Nigerian movie to win the International Feature Film at the 2024 Oscars has been dashed as the country’s contender for the award failed to make the cut. Hopes were high when Nigerian Official Section Committee (NOSC) picked Sundance Festival award-winning film, “Mami Wata” as its contender for the 96th […]...
•Nigerian debt problem The Debt Management Office (DMO), yesterday revealed that Nigeria’s sovereign debt as at September 30, 2023 was N87.91 trillion or $14.35 billion. The figure represents the domestic and external debts of the federal government, the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. At N87.91 trillion, the total public debt sto...
Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan has declared that the truce and declaration by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the Rivers State crisis was unconstitutional. The former member of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council said according to the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended), it w...
•Nigerian winners and officials at the CAF Awards in Marrakech, Morocco Nigeria has been gripped by a euphoria by the success of its footballers at last week’s African Footballer of the Year Awards held in Marrakech, Morocco. At the Awards gala held on Monday, Nigeria’s Victor Osimhen and Asisat Oshoala were named Africa’s Footballers of [&hel...
•Moses Siasia and David Osadolor Outgoing President of the Nigerian Young Professionals Forum (NYPF) Mr Moses Siasia, has expressed worry that Nigeria’s political class will in no distant time, face the consequences of the high rate of young people migrating out of the country in search greener pastures abroad. Siasia who stated this yesterday...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) today Friday, December 15, said the inflation rate rose from 27.33% in October 2023 to 28.20% in November 2023. This was contained in its document tagged: “CPI and Inflation Report November 2023.” The report said: “In November 2023, the headline inflation rate increased to 28.20% relative to October 2023...

