Nigeria’s Dangote refinery has dispatched its first gasoline shipment to the United States, marking a new milestone for the $20bn facility and signaling the country’s growing influence in global oil product markets. The consignment left the refinery’s jetty near Lagos on 26 August aboard the vessel Gemini Pearl, carrying about 300,000 barrels of gasoline, according…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday insisted that Nigeria has no plans to resort to borrowing, announcing that his administration met its 2025 revenue generation target ahead of schedule through the non-oil sector. Speaking at the State House in Abuja during a courtesy visit by members of The Buhari Organisation (TBO), led by former Nasarawa…
Veteran Nollywood actress, Peju Ogunmola, lost Ayomikun Shina, her only son with actor Sunday Omobolanle, popularly known as Papi Lute. The death of the 24-year-old son of 56-year-old Ogunmola was said to have died after he slipped in the bathroom with no one at home to assist him. The incident was confirmed by another Nollywood…
The Magistrate Court in Ikorodu on Tuesday ordered that Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) tests be conducted on Liam Aloba, the son of late Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad. The DNA tests are to be conducted in an accredited and recognised hospital, both in Nigeria and abroad. Magistrate Adefisoye Sonuga gave the order while…
In a dramatic turn of events, President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday ordered the recall of top executives of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), reversing management changes that had unsettled Africa’s largest TV network. The President directed the immediate return of Mr. Salihu Abdullahi Dembos as Director-General of the NTA. Dembos, who was first appointed in…
Nigerian singer Charles Oputa, aka Charly Boy, has dropped a bombshell that goes beyond the petty gbas gbos over his renamed bus stop. The 74-year-old entertainer admitted that the whole drama around his bus stop being changed to “Baddo Bus Stop” almost pushed him into depression. “Life is a bitch, then we die,” Charly Boy…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, Musa Ilyasu Kwankwaso, has accused former Kaduna State Governor, Nasiru El-Rufai, of resorting to “blackmail and lies” in an alleged bid to undermine President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a statement issued to journalists in Kano on Tuesday, Kwankwaso described…
A recent national survey conducted by Chatham House in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has exposed a deep erosion of public trust in Nigeria’s key institutions. The survey ranked the Nigeria Police Force, the presidency, and the federal government among the least trusted institutions in the country. The survey, published under the…
The West African Examinations Council has reaffirmed its plan to migrate the West African Senior School Certificate Examination to a fully computer-based testing format by 2026. Head of WAEC’s National Office, Dr. Amos Dangut, gave the assurance on Tuesday during a sensitisation meeting with members of the National Assembly Committee on Education in Abuja. He…
The National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, nullified the provision of the Harmonized Terms and Conditions of Service for the Officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces, HTACOS, which made it mandatory for soldiers to serve for a minimum of 15 years before they could be allowed to resign. The court, in a…