Nigeria’s capital importation, known as foreign investments, rose by 152.81 per cent to $2.604.50 million in the second quarter of 2024, compared to $1.030.21 recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2023. The National Bureau of Statistics disclosed this in its latest Capital Importation Data released on Tuesday. However, this represents a 22.85 per cent decline…
Boko Haram Leader, Ibrahim Bakoura Doro, alias Abu Oumaimah, has denied reports by the Government of Niger Republic that he was killed in recent military operations in the country’s Diffa region. The Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) had, on Thursday, announced that Bakoura was eliminated alongside several insurgent commanders during precision airstrikes carried out on Aug….
Carlo Ancelotti will officially leave Real Madrid following the club’s final La Liga fixture of the 2024-25 season to become the head coach of Brazil’s national team, according to The Athletic. The veteran Italian manager has signed a contract with the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and will assume his new role on May 26, just…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested four individuals — including a man, his wife, girlfriend, and her younger sister — over a bizarre staged kidnapping scheme aimed at extorting ₦5 million from the girls’ father. According to a statement by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, the alleged kidnap was…
Nollywood actress, Uche Montana, has denied allegations linking her to the alleged drug abuse crisis in the household of actress Regina Daniels and her husband, Senator Ned Nwoko. The actress made this known in a statement on her Instagram page on Monday, days after Nwoko, in a detailed post on Facebook, accused Regina’s siblings and…
The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed Monday, January 20, 2025, for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arraign the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Chief Oba Otudeko and a former First Bank Managing Director, Stephen Olabisi Onasanya, for allegedly looting N12.3billion from First Bank. Otudeko – former Chairman of First Bank of…
Scientists said Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilised them with sperm in the lab for the first time — a breakthrough that is hoped to one day let infertile people have children. The technology is still years away from potentially becoming available to aspiring parents, the US-led team of scientists…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake, has officially parted ways with YBNL Nation owned by popular rapper Olamide Gbenga Adedeji. Asake made the announcement with the release of his latest single, “Why Love”, under his own label, Giran Republic. This move confirms that the talented singer has joined the growing list…
US President Donald Trump threatened his former advisor Elon Musk with “serious consequences” Saturday if the tech billionaire seeks to punish Republicans who vote for a controversial spending bill. The comments by Trump to NBC News come after the relationship between the world’s most powerful person and the world’s richest imploded in bitter and spectacular…
One of the trends in the world, especially Nigeria is fight between sidechicks and housewives. While some people blame the wives for stepping out of their boundaries to fight another woman, many have heaped blames on the men for leaving their wife to run after another lady. In a trending video sighted by our correspondent,…