The Nigerian Senate has approved the request of President Bola Tinubu to raise N1.15 trillion from the domestic debt market to cover the unfunded portion of the 2025 budget deficit. This comes after the adoption of a report by the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt during plenary on Wednesday. According to the committee,…
In a shocking security breach, a car thief reportedly broke into the Kano State Government House early Monday morning and made away with a Toyota Hilux belonging to the deputy governor’s convoy. According to reports by DAILY NIGERIAN, the suspect gained entry through Gate 4 around 5 a.m. and drove the vehicle out through the…
Bandits operating in North Western part of Nigeria have imposed a N20 million levy on farmers in Gatakawa, Katsina State. The development was disclosed on Wednesday in a post on X by Bakatsine, a conflict and crisis journalist covering insecurity in Nigeria’s northwest. Bakatsine said the bandits demanded the levy from farmers before allowing them…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has ordered a sweeping ban on the use of mobile phones by staff of the Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS) and the Department of Land Administration. The controversial directive, contained in an internal memo sighted online, targets all officers on Salary Grade Level 14 and below,…
President Donald Trump has advised all U.S. visa applicants, including expatriates who are overweight, to “trim down” before submitting their applications or risk being denied entry. On Tuesday, Mr Trump revealed that a restriction was in the works for people who were grossly overweight and suffered health problems to be banned from entering the U.S….
The Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria has threatened a nationwide naked protest on November 24, if government fails to pay their outstanding pension increment arrears and palliative allowances. The coalition’s National Chairman, Mr Mukaila Ogunbote, announced this while briefing newsmen in Lagos, yesterday. Ogunbote, who is also the Chairman, Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NIPOST…
Despite billions of naira spent yearly to cushion hardship, a new World Bank report has revealed that only 44 per cent of total benefits from Nigeria’s social safety-net programmes actually reached the poor. In its latest report titled: “The State of Social Safety Nets in Nigeria” as obtained on Tuesday, the Bank said most of…
Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has explained the circumstances surrounding the Minister’s altercation with some soldiers. Olayinka claimed that a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo (rtd.), was scammed in a land deal in Abuja and, instead of seeking…
Former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has urged the Federal Government to pay the Super Eagles their outstanding allowances and bonuses after the national team boycotted a training session in Rabat over unpaid dues. In his post on X on Wednesday, Obi criticised the government’s failure to promptly compensate the athletes who patriotically raised the nation’s…
Tukur Buratai, former chief of army staff, has criticised Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), over a face-off with military personnel over a disputed plot of land. On Tuesday, videos surfaced online showing Wike in a heated argument with military personnel at a site in Abuja, the nation’s capital. In a statement,…