Former president Laurent Gbagbo agrees to contest 2025 Ivory Coast election
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has agreed to fly his party’s flag as presidential candidate in the 2025 elections. Katinan Kone, spokesperson of his party the African People’s Party – Cote d’Ivoire (PPA-CI), which Gbagbo founded in 2021 gave the news after a meeting of the party’s central committee at the weekend. Gbagbo lost […]
FG orders NCS to return confiscated food items to owners
President Bola Tinubu has directed the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to return food items that were confiscated at border communities to their owners on the condition that they would be sold in the Nigerian markets to boost food sufficiency. Comptroller General of the NCS, Adewale Adeniyi, who disclosed this during an interface with residents of […]
Mike Tyson to face YouTuber Jake Paul in exhibition boxing fight
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will return to the ring to face Youtuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in an exhibition bout screened on Netflix, organisers announced on Thursday. Tyson, 57, and Paul will face off at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, on July 20, Netflix and Most Valuable Promotions […]
US to build temporary port to deliver aid to Gaza
President Joe Biden is to announce that the US military will construct a port in Gaza to get more humanitarian aid into the territory by sea. Senior US officials say, the temporary port will increase the amount of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians by “hundreds of additional truckloads” per day, but it will not include US […]
Federal Government to open online portal for student loan in March
The Federal Government has assured that the Nigeria Education Loan Fund portal for eligible STUDENTS will open in March. The Executive Secretary, NELFund, Dr. Akintunde Sawyer, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria yesterday in Abuja, urged eligible students to register to access the fund. Giving reasons for the delay […]
NLC demands hundreds of thousands in minimum wage for workers
The Nigeria Labour Congress has demanded N794,000 as the new national minimum wage for workers in the South West geopolitical political zone. The Labour Union in the South West, through the Chairperson of the Lagos State chapter of the NLC, Funmi Sessi, made the demand during her presentation at the ongoing public hearing of the […]
 Bayern and PSG qualify for UEFA Champions League quarterfinals
Harry Kane scored two to help Bayern Munich overturn a first-leg deficit against Lazio and advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg in Rome, Kane’s header levelled the scores on aggregate, then goals by Thomas Muller and another by Kane made it 3-1 on aggregate. Elsewhere, Kylian Mbappe […]
EFCC intercepts 21 food trucks heading to neighbouring countries
Announcing the seizure made by operatives of the Maiduguri Zonal Command, in a statement on its X handle on Tuesday, the anti-graft agency said the items were heading towards N’djamena, Chad Republic, Central African Republic, and Cameroon. The commission stated that the arrest of the trucks is expected to stem the tide of food insecurity […]
Cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has announced plans to discontinue all services related to the Nigerian naira
Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange platform, was accused of exploiting the Nigerian currency, Naira, leading to its free fall in value. The company is, in addition, facing allegations of terrorism financing, money laundering and tax invasion, among others. Nigeria is one of the largest peer-to-peer crypto markets in the world. Between July 2022 and June 2023, […]
The Chief of Army Staff to defend Democracy
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, has restated the commitment of the Nigerian Army to defend the nation’s choice of government, Democracy. Addressing participants yesterday at a seminar on career planning and management organised by the Army headquarters in Abuja, the COAS said the Army has no plans to truncate democracy […]
