The UK Home Office has announced an increase in the monthly proof-of-funds requirement for student visa applicants, raising the amount to £1,483 (approximately N3 million) starting January 2, 2025. This adjustment aims to address inflation and reflect the rising cost of living in the UK. In an official document, the Home Office outlined that the…
42-year-old nurse, Alice Loksha, who was abducted in 2018 by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State, has regained freedom Speaking with newsmen in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Friday, the Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, North-East, Major General Wahdi Shuaibu, said she was captured while working at a UNICEF office…
In a scathing critique of Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House, a Senior Aide and Special Adviser on Public Communication to Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, Onwuasoanya FCC Jones, has publicly repudiated the former president’s journey back to power, inferring that “America is doomed.” In a trending post he made on multiple…
A High Court of the Capital Territory, FCT, has convicted and sentenced one Laminu Ahmed, 36, to life imprisonment for raping a seven-year-old girl. Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi found the defendant guilty based on an eight-count charge the Federal Government entered against him through the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of…
Operatives of the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, have refused a bribe of ₦174 million offered by a 28-year-old suspected internet fraudster, Patrick Akpoguma. The suspect is accused of engaging in various forms of cyber fraud, including romance scams, identity theft, hacking, cryptocurrency fraud, ritualism, and cultism. Akpoguma, speaking with journalists at Zone 2…
The election that brought a political loyalist of President Bola Tinubu, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo to emerge the National President of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) is invalid, SaharaReporters has learnt. This is because the Court of Appeal in Abuja already affirmed Tajudeen Baruwa as the re-elected NURTW president, according…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed banks to prioritise cash disbursement through automated teller machines (ATMs). CBN gave the directive in a circular to banks on Friday titled ‘Mystery shopping & spot checks on cash disbursement activities of deposit money banks (DMBs)”. In the circular signed by Solaja Olayemi, acting director, currency operations…
Human rights activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju has responded to the comments made against him by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister and former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike. Wike had accused Adeyanju of being jobless, recalling that the Kogi-born activist had approached him to support his (Adeyanju) ambition to emerge as the Peoples…
Paul Ibe, media aide to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has accused the Bola Tinubu-led government of “preaching austerity while indulging in excess.” Ibe was reacting to media reports that the Tinubu administration sponsored 634 delegates to the ongoing #COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The reports also revealed that the Nigerian delegation spent a…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has reinstated Olorunfemi Festus as the Labour Party’s candidate for the 2024 Ondo State governorship election, following a ruling by the Court of Appeal. INEC revealed this in a statement released on its official X account on Friday. The decision came after the Court of Appeal in Abuja struck down…