GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that some youths protesting against economic hardship in Kano State have taken to the streets, waving Russian flags and calling on President Vladimir Putin, to intervene over the crisis in Nigeria. Recall that angry Nigerian youths started protesting on Thursday, 1st of August , demanding better governance and an end to issues…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday met with Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Governor Otti’s meeting with President Tinubu is believed to be part of ongoing engagements aimed at securing the release of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The meeting comes…
Nigerian billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote, who broke his silence on the brewing dispute between his company and NUPENG, Dangote on manufacturing Dangote fortune Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has accused powerful ‘oil mafias’ in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector of working relentlessly to destroy his $20 billion Dangote Petroleum Refinery, warning that the same forces…
Hours after Governor Similanayi Fubara made another request to the Rivers State House of Assembly to present 2025 Appropriation Bill, the House on Friday adjourned plenary indefinitely. The adjournment came a few hours after the governor said he had sent a second letter to the House for the presentation of the state’s 2025 budget. The…
The Federal Government has said the petition by Yoruba nation agitator, Mr Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as “Sunday Igboho”, calling on the United Kingdom to consider the Yoruba nation was not endorsed by the UK government. The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Eche Abu-Obe, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said…
The Bola Tinubu-led federal government has come under scrutiny for failing to provide transparency in its 2025 fiscal activities, as key public records on federal spending have become largely inaccessible. A review by SaharaReporters shows that critical budget performance and expenditure reporting systems, historically used to track federal government spending, have not been updated for…
A 73-year-old man, identified as Pastor Awolola, on Monday died in a fire incident in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The incident occurred at about 11:58 a.m. on Cemetery Road, Irewolede area of Ilorin metropolis, according to a statement by the spokesman of the state fire service, Hassan Adekunle. “Pastor Awolola reportedly set undergrowth on…
Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the immediate past Governor of Ekiti State and former Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), has extended warm wishes to Nigerian Muslims as they celebrate this year’s Eid al-Adha festivities. In a statement issued by the Fayemi Media Office, the former Ekiti governor described the celebration as a period of spiritual…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has addressed circulating rumours of a new increase in fuel prices, affirming that the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) has not changed. NNPCL spokesperson Olufemi Soneye stated, “There is no increase in gasoline price that I am aware of,” countering speculation that prices had risen from…
Nigeria witnessed cryptocurrency transactions exceeding $50 billion between July 2023 and June 2024, according to the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dr. Emomotimi Agama. With an exchange rate of N1,500 to the Dollar, the amount translates into N75 trillion, about two-thirds of the capitalization of the Nigerian equities market capitalization currently at…
