The federal government said it has fully allocated the N75 billion Manufacturing Sector Fund (MSF) set aside to support manufacturing businesses under the N200 billion Presidential Intervention Fund initiated by President Bola Tinubu. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Engagement, Fredrick Nwabufo, disclosed this while giving an update on the status of the…
Simone Lyke, 32, was mauled on the balcony of her apartment on July 24. As the Daily Mail reports, police said she had been trying to move the male Bully dog outside when it suddenly lunged at her. At the time, Lyke had a friend visiting, which reportedly agitated the dog. A bystander tried to…
Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has expressed confidence that the country will soon attain a level of prosperity that will enable it to lend money to other nations. She made the remark on Sunday in Ile-Ife, Osun State, after receiving the chieftaincy title of Yeye Asiwaju Gbogbo Ile Oodua at an event held to…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently meeting with the newly appointed Service Chiefs. The meeting is taking at the Presidential Villa, State House Abuja. Our correspondent could not immediately verify the agenda of the meeting, but it might not be unconnected with ongoing efforts to strengthen the Country’s security architecture. The…
A Counsel to the Federal Government, Rimazonte Ezekiel, has refuted claims that some of the suspects arraigned on Friday over the August 2024 #EndBadGovernance protests are minors. Tribune Online reports that Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja granted a bail of N10 million each to 67 minors out of the…
A combined security team has found the decomposing body of Hon. Justice Azuka, a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, at the 2nd Niger Bridge. On Tuesday, December 24, 2024, gunmen abducted Azuka, the representative of Onitsha 1 North Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly. Azuka was reportedly kidnapped while returning…
A US man who allegedly said President Donald Trump “needs to be assassinated” and posed on TikTok holding a rifle has been arrested, authorities said. Douglas Thrams, 23, posted multiple videos on Tiktok between Monday, when Trump was inaugurated, and Wednesday threatening anti-government violence, according to a criminal complaint Thursday. “Every US government building needs…
Comrade Ojetola Babatunde Yusuf popularly known as Toyyem has penned down appreciation note to all supporters after his emergence as the Treasurer of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Southwest Zone D. Toyyem, a former General Secretary of the association at Oyo JCC level disclosed that he was overwhelmed by supports from NANS stakeholders, leaders…
As the Yuletide season draws nearer, the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has appealed to market women to refrain from unfair hike in prices of food items during the festive season. This is as the President’s wife has inaugurated a 3.1 kilometer runway at the Wilberforce Chuba Okadigbo International Airport, Onueke, Ebonyi State. She performed…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dismissed the purported dismissal of Hon. Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu from the party by his ward executives. National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, said this in a statement in response to a viral letter from the Umuopia/Umukegwu Ward Chapter, of the party in…