•New Alaafin, Oba Akeem Owoade After spending about seven weeks in Canada, the Alaafin of Oyo-designate, Oba Akeem Owoade, arrived at Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja, yesterday evening. He is expected to make his way to his hometown, Oyo, today (Thursday), reports The PUNCH. Owoade’s return comes just a month before his official coronation as ...
After three years in operation, Nigerian education technology startup Edukoya has ended operations, saying poor infrastructure and economic challenges made it impossible to scale. The startup which secured Africa’s largest pre-seed funding of $3.5 million in 2021, said it will return capital to investors rather than persist in what it describe...
The Katsina Government yesterday rewarded a woman, Malama Abdulkadir-Yanmama, with N500,000 for returning N748,320 to the state. The N748,320 was meant for the federal government’s Home Grown School feeding programme in the state, reports NAN. The Executive Director, Katsina State Social Investment Programme Agency, Dr Mudassir Nasir, presente...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu arrived in the country after departing for Cape Town, South Africa, to co-chair the 11th session of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission alongside President Cyril Ramaphosa. President Tinubu touched down at 9.10pm at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. Present to receive the president were the Min...
•Tinubu greeted by top government officials on arrival last night President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after a one-day travel to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia for the just concluded extraordinary Arab-Islamic summit. Tinubu arrived at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Aiport, Abuja, around 8 pm yesterday. On ground to re...
•King Charles III and Queen Camilla Queen Camilla, whose husband is Britain’s head of state King Charles III, will return to public duties today with a shortened programme after withdrawing from events last week due to a chest infection, a royal source said. Camilla, 77, is expected to attend the Booker Prize reception later today […]...
•Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Ukraine said today it had received the bodies of 563 soldiers from Russian authorities, mainly troops that had died in combat in the eastern Donetsk region. The exchange of prisoners and bodies of killed military personnel remains one of the few areas of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv since Russia invade...
•Tinubu returns President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned after a two-week working vacation in the United Kingdom (UK). Tinubu, who arrived the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, around 7:20pm, was received by senior members of the administration, reports The Nation. He departed for the two-week working vacati...
•Petrol scarcity Fresh queues have surfaced in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), leaving motorists spending hours to buy Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), a.k.a. petrol. This followed the closure of many filling stations operated by independent marketers, reports Daily Trust. Findings by our correspondent yesterday evening, showed that many filli...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after a short trip to France on a brief work visit. The president, who arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in the early hours of today, left for France on Monday. President Tinubu is scheduled to swear in the new Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun […]

