•US President Donald Trump President Donald Trump is moving to target Latin American drug cartels with the military, US media said yesterday, after Washington designated several narcotics trafficking groups as “terrorist” organisations earlier this year. The New York Times reported that Trump has directed the Pentagon to use military force aga...
The United States embassy in Nigeria has shared a report showing the extravagance of Nigerian governors in spending public funds. The report titled, “Nigeria’s ruling class splashes billions on government houses”, by The Africa Report. It revealed how governors lavish billions on building or renovating government houses in the mids...
•Tinubu Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has decried what it described as an alarming escalation of attacks on media freedom and civic expression, particularly through the misuse of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act by law enforcement agencies to silence or punish journalists and critics under the administration of President Bola ...
•Barack Obama and Donald Trump and Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard has declassified a sensitive congressional report that she claims supports allegations that former President Barack Obama helped “manufacture” evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump. The move comes just one day after Trump pub...
•Tinubu and foodstuff market A Comercio Partners survey has shown that over 83 per cent of Nigerians experience greater difficulty in affording food, housing, and healthcare compared to the previous year. Presenting the report yesterday at the Comercio Partners H2 Macroeconomic Outlook in Lagos, Head Investment Research, Comercio Partners, Dr....
•Bandits No fewer than 1,111 Nigerians were killed and another 276 persons abducted by non-state actors in the month of June, a report released by Beacon Security and Intelligence Limited has disclosed. According to Leadership, the report also revealed that June witnessed a notable de-escalation in overall security breaches compared to the mon...
•Dangote The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is planning to end crude importation by December 2025, a move that would replace hundreds of thousands of barrels a day of imported oil. A Bloomberg report quoting the Vice President at Dangote Industries, who oversees the 650,000 barrel-a-day plant in Lagos, Devakumar Edwin, said contracts with foreign ...
•Dangote Refinery was commissioned in May 2023 Dangote Petroleum Refinery has been identified as crucial to reducing inflation in Nigeria, according to a report by the Financial Derivatives Company (FDC) Limited think tank. In its recently published Lagos Business School (LBS) Executive Breakfast Presentation for July, the think tank noted tha...
Nigeria’s banking sector recorded a strong 39.6 per cent year-on-year growth in 2024, with total assets rising to N170.02 trillion from N121.8 trillion in 2023. This remarkable expansion was fueled by surging remittance inflows, the widespread adoption of digital financial services, and broader sector reforms, according to the State of Enterpr...
•Donkeys Almost six million donkeys are slaughtered annually for Chinese medicine, with severe knock-on effects for African villagers who rely on the animals, a UK-based charity said today. It is driven by an increase in China’s production of ejiao – a product marketed as a health supplement that uses collagen from donkey skins – which [&helli...

