Nigeria’s headline inflation rate dropped for the third consecutive month in June 2025, settling at 22.22 per cent, according to data released on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This marks a modest decline from the 22.97 per cent recorded in May, and a significant drop from 34.19 per cent in June 2024, aided largely by the recent rebasing of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) series which now uses 2024 as the new...

…Assures Nigerians Concerns Raised Are Being Addressed The Federal Government has reaffirmed commitment to maintaining and strengthening the longstanding and cordial diplomatic relations with the Governments of the United States of America and the United Arab Emirates. In a press statement on Tuesday signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, the presidency noted that the recent changes in visa issuance policies affecting Nigerian citizens by these two countries have...

In its effort to tackle conflict, particularly between farmers and herders, Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has inaugurated the Adamawa State Peace, Conflict Resolution, and Social Integration Commission. Governor Fintiri, while inaugurating the commission at Government House, Yola, reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to fostering unity, justice, and long-lasting peace across the state. He described the establishment of the commission as a proactive step towards addressing the root causes of communal conflict, religious intolerance, political...