•Turkish President, Recep Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu Turkey said yesterday it was suspending all trade with Israel until it allows aid to enter Gaza unhindered during its offensive against Hamas militants in the territory. “Exports and imports to and from Israel have been suspended,” the trade ministry said i...
•CBN Governor Yemi Cardoso The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) on Wednesday said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) adjusted the exchange rate 28 times in the first quarter of 2024, thus pervading the nation’s trade dynamics with uncertainty and unpredictability. In a statement signed today by the CPPE Chief Executive Offi...
•FUOYE gate The Management of Federal University, Oye Ekiti, has blamed the death of a student of the institution on the insensitivity of members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) who were on strike. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abayomi Fasina said the deceased student who was asthmatic could not get treatment d...
•Students The woes of hunger, triggered by the increasing cost of living, have stretched their claws to the lives of students in tertiary institutions. Gone are the days when undergraduates return to class with cash and other home appliances depicting their high standard of living, reports Vanguard. Today many parents or guardians can no longe...
•Protest in Niger The ruling All Progressives Congress yesterday accused the leading opposition parties in the country of orchestrating the demonstrations that took place simultaneously in Kano and Niger states on Monday. But the Peoples Democratic Party denied the allegation, saying the protests were merely a reflection of the hardship in the...
•Police checkpoint Nigeria’s bad roads and other transportation infrastructure are fuelling illegal taxation, human rights violations and inflation. The development is also worsening ease of doing business, food wastage and environmental disaster. KINGSLEY JEREMIAH, in this special report by The Guardian paints a picture of the ordeal. On the ...
The leadership of the Labour Party has labelled the reported ‘mechanical completion’ and the ‘flare start-off’ of the country’s biggest crude refinery in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, as a sham. This was even as the ruling All Progressives Congress cautioned the Labour Party against misleading the public, stressing that it is not every ...
•Minister of interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo Blatant abuse of expatriate quota (EQ) rule by foreign companies, the rising number of undocumented foreign workers and the underhand dealings of local capitalists in expatriate recruitment are driving Nigeria deeper into the unemployment crisis. As bad as the situation is, relevant government agencies...
•Trade minister, Doris Anite The Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment has debunked a report that claimed that it allegedly allocated the sum of N1 billion for a foreign trip to Geneva, Switzerland in 2024. The Ministry’s spokesperson, Toluwalase Moyan, in a statement, refuted the report, saying it was an extreme misrepresentation of the...