The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has climbed up the rich list. He is now the 86th richest man in the world after his wealth rose to $23.9bn. This is coming a year after the $20bn Dangote Petroleum Refinery commenced operations in Lagos. According to Forbes, which ranks the Nigerian entrepreneur as…
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 United States Mission to Nigeria has announced that the U.S. government is set to investigate how past aid allocated to Nigeria and other countries has been utilised. This move follows growing calls for a comprehensive review of how U.S. Agency for International Development health funds have been spent. In a post on its verified…
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…
Controversial Nigerian singer Portable, has declared that he is a mad man who is undergoing treatment at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta. Portable said this while appealing to Nigerians and the Ogun State Government on Tuesday after being declared wanted by the state police command. The zazoo-zeh crooner was reportedly involved in a fight…
On Sunday, activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi disclosed that he was still faced with four separate suits in different states filed by members of the Aare Afe Babalola law office. Farotimi’s disclosure comes after the Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), on January 27, agreed to withdraw the cases instituted against…
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,…
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…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned that if the telecommunications companies fail to revert to the old tariff by the end of February 2025, it will mobilize workers to shut-down their operations nationwide by March 1, 2025. Arising from its Central Working Committee meeting in Lokoja, Kogi State, the labour movement said it will…
