Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has come under fire from the Actors Guild of Nigeria for referring to Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi as a “Nollywood actor.” El-Rufai called Obi a Nollywood actor who couldn’t win the election on Thursday’s episode of TVC’s Journalists’ Hangout. Kate Henshaw, who is in charge of communication for … Read more
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake has struck southern Turkey, weeks after a deadly quake ravaged the region. The shudder hit the town of Defne at 8:04 pm (1704 GMT) and was unequivocally felt in Antakya and Adana, 200 kilometers (300 miles) toward the north, as per AFP. According to an AFP journalist who reported panicked scenes, the … Read more
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who were dissatisfied with the party’s recent ward and local government congresses have threatened to sue the party if their issues are not addressed by the party’s leadership. Recall that around nine gubernatorial hopefuls who were dissatisfied with the party’s ward congress petitioned the congress appeal panel, citing … Read more
Simon Ekpa, a well-known pro-Biafra separatist agitator, was arrested and questioned for hours before being released by Finnish police on Thursday. Ekpa’s arrest was previously reported by INFORMATION NIGERIA. The separatist was led out of his Lahti apartment by the police. After being allegedly detained by the police in Finland for an alleged crime, Ekpa … Read more
Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister, referred to Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, as a satan sent to afflict Nigerians on Friday. According to Fani-Kayode, Satan’s use of Emefiele would soon abandon him. The chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, wrote in a tweet: Godwin, Satan sent you to afflict … Read more
On Friday, Nigerians flocked to the Yaba, Lagos, South West zonal office of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to buy 25 kilograms of rice, a product the agency had released to alleviate the country’s skyrocketing food prices. On Thursday, the confiscated food goods were marked down to N10,000 per 25 kilograms by Comptroller General of … Read more
The federal government and the labor unions agreed to meet again on June 19 to work out a plan for putting the resolutions they reached into action as the meeting came to a close on Monday. At the conclusion of a meeting between labor and government representatives at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Mr. Femi … Read more
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, had disclosed that it is investigating two ministries over double contracts payment fraud to the sum of N4billion naira. Abdulrasheed Bawa, the commission’s chairman, on Thursday, disclosed that the double contract payments were cumulatively 20. Bawa revealed that the contracts were executed way back in 2018. He explained … Read more
Until February 10, 2023, the Central Bank of Nigeria has extended the deadline for exchanging obsolete naira notes. This was revealed by the CBN in a statement on Sunday. The apex bank stated that it would extend the deadline by 10 days, from January 31, 2023, to February 10, 2023, “to enable the collecting of … Read more
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has made numerous attempts to defect from the All Progressives Congress, or APC. Despite his position that the South should be given the presidency, he has called the rumors that he is affiliated with the All Progressives Congress (APC) “speculative.” The Ikwere politician, who has previously had disagreements with his … Read more