A data review for the second quarter debt portfolio of the country released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that the debt owed by every Nigerian on the average stood at N619,501. According to the data published by the Debt Management Office, Nigeria’s public debt stood at N134.297 trillion as of the…
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District has said that her colleagues had warned her against challenging the change of seat at the Nigerian Senate last week. Akpoti-Uduaghan said her colleagues who tried to give her a heads-up told her that the directive from the Senate President for her seat to be…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that popular crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has been released from prison. Recall that the EFCC had on April 5 secured the conviction of self acclaimed mother of Lagos for mutilating naira notes. Okuneye was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on four counts bordering on naira…
The Senate has passed the Electric Vehicle Transition and Green Mobility Bill 2025, for its second reading. The legislation seeks to create a national framework for Nigeria’s shift to electric vehicles (EVs), promote local manufacturing and strengthen the country’s commitment to environmental sustainability. Sponsored by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu (Abia North), the bill received broad…
President Bola Tinubu has inspected the Republican Guards of Honour in France following his three-day State Visit to the country at invitation of the French President Emmanuel Macron. Tinubu alongside his wife, First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu was earlier reported to have arrived in France yesterday, Wednesday, November 27 on a state visit at the invitation…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that over 30 people have been confirmed dead in a petrol tanker explosion in the Agaie Local Government Area of Niger State. The petrol tanker reportedly collided head-on with a trailer truck carrying travellers and cattle from Wudil, Kano State. The Director General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, Abdullahi Baba-Arab,…
Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters and former presidential candidate has been invited by the Department of State Services (DSS) over his recent X post on President Bola Tinubu. The DSS in a letter dated September 7, described Sowore’s post as false and malicious. The letter signed by Uwem Davies on behalf of the…
Nigeria is negotiating a $2 billion loan with China’s Export-Import Bank to fund the construction of a new “super grid” designed to resolve the nation’s chronic electricity shortages and stimulate industrial expansion. Power Minister Adebayo Adelabu disclosed this at an economic summit in Abuja on Monday, explaining that the proposed transmission network will connect the…
The Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday lost two of its members in the House of Representatives to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Husseini Jallo, representing Igabi Federal Constituency, Kaduna State and Adamu Tanko, representing Suleja/Tara/Gurara Federal Constituency, Niger State identified what they called the perennial crisis in the PDP as the reason for their defection….
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that a magistrate court in Kano has ordered the remand of Muktar Dahiru, a journalist with Pyramid FM Kano, in a correctional centre following allegations of making a Facebook post deemed “insulting” to Abba Yusuf, the Governor of Kano State. Dahiru was arrested on Thursday and secretly charged before Magistrate Court 24…