The coverage of activities at the Lagos State House of Assembly, has enraged the Department of State Services, which has threatened to take legal action against Africa Independent Television and Channels Television over their reports on the involvement of the service in the Lagos Assembly crisis. The DSS described the reportage by the broadcast stations…
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS , has said the headline inflation rate fell by 10.32 percentage points to 24.48 percent in January 2025 from 34.8 percent in December 2024 after rebasing the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This implied that the general prices of goods and services in the country declined compared to 34.80 percent…
Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather might have retired his boxing gloves, but he is still very much involved in sporting activities, as the boxing legend wants to own the NY Giants and is leading a group gunning to buy a 10% stake in the 4x Super Bowl-winning franchise! The 47-year-old Mayweather and his business partner, prominent real…
A Delta Air Lines jet flipped on its roof while landing Monday at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, but all 80 people on board survived and those hurt had relatively minor injuries, the airport’s chief executive said. Snow blown by winds gusting to 40 mph (65 kph) swirled when the flight from Minneapolis carrying 76 passengers and…
Pan Niger Delta Forum leader, Chief Edwin Clark, is dead. Aged 97, the former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader’s death was confirmed in a statement by a representative of the family, Prof. C. C. Clark, on Tuesday. Clark’s death is coming on the heels of the passing of Afenifere leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo,…
Omar Marmoush is off the mark!! As the new Manchester City singning scored a sensational first-half hat-trick to sink Newcastle United as the Egyptian announced himself. Substitute James McAtee added a late fourth as City made light work of their visitors, although the day was not perfect for Pep Guardiola as Erling Haaland limped off…
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has called for the creation of an “army of Europe” to guard against Russia as he suggested the US may no longer come to the continent’s aid. At the Munich Security Conference, he also said that Ukraine would “never accept deals made behind our backs without our involvement” after…
Israel and Hamas completed the sixth exchange of hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on Saturday with just over two weeks remaining in the initial phase of their fragile Gaza ceasefire. The three hostages handed over on Saturday are American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, Argentinian-Israeli Yair Horn, 46, and Russian-Israeli Alexander Troufanov, 29. In return, 369…
President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, to participate in the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government. Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in a statement he signed in the early hours of Friday titled…
The Canadian embassy seems to have ruffled the feathers of Nigeria’s security personnels, after denying Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, and other army chiefs visas. The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, while Speaking at the maiden annual lecture of the National Association of the Institute for Security Studies (AANISS), in…
