Nigeria Secures $2.25 Billion Loan from World Bank

Nigeria scored a win with a US$2.25 billion loan from the World Bank. The loan, which is equivalent to N2.58 trillion, boasts exceptionally favourable terms, making it practically a grant. Wale Edun, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, broke the news during a press conference held at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group meetings in Washington D.C. on Friday. He described the loan as “virtually a grant” due to...

Bandits Gun Down Six Soldiers, Abducts Captain In Niger State

Six soldiers have been gunned down at Roro, Karaga, and Rumace communities, Bassa Ward, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State on Friday night. It was gathered that a captain was said to have been abducted during the incident when the soldiers had left their camps at Allawa and Erena to respond to a distress call when they ambushed them at Roro village. A hunter and two farmers were also said to have been killed...

APC: Angry Mobs Beats Commissioner In Ondo State

Some angry members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at Ugbo Ward 3, Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State have beaten the Commissioner for Health in Ondo State, Banji Ajaka on Saturday for allegedly hiding result sheets during the party’s primary election. The Commissioner was attacked after electoral officers fingered him for holding the material when some members of the party who had been waiting to vote demanded the result sheet. “Ajaka received a...

Collapse Pit Kills Seven Pupils In Kebbi State

Seven pupils of Malam Dan-Umma Qur’anic School at Bayan Science, Badariya in Birnin Kebbi Local Government Area of Kebbi State died while one sustained injuries when a pit collapsed on them. Malam Dan Umar, the proprietor of the school who spoke amid tears at his residence in the school premises, said the pupils were assigned to go to the top of the hill near the school to excavate clay and gravel to mend the holes...

Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Seals Supermarket In Abuja

The foreign-owned supermarket ‘4 U’ located at Wuse 2 Abuja has been sealed off by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) for the sale of substandard bags of rice, intolerable practices, and information concealing information. Dr Adamu Abdullahi, acting Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission said the supermarket was engaging suppliers who were re-bagging the stallion rice and described the act as unacceptable. The supermarket had stockpiled stallion and cap rice when Stallion...

Strange Disease Claims Seven Lives, Records 196 Cases In Sokoto

An unknown disease announced by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC on April 9 has now spread to Kaduna State. Some of the identified symptoms of the strange disease include fever, abdominal swelling and pain, vomiting, and weight loss. The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr. Jide Idris held an emergency meeting with Commissioners for Health from Sokoto and Kaduna States at NCDC Headquarters in...

2024 Aguata NBA Law Week: AG, Prof. Ifemeje Touts Landmarks and Expectations

The Anambra State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Sylvia Ifemeje, has announced that the end-to-end full automation of the 31 High Courts in Anambra and the Ministry of Justice, when completed by the end of the year, would make the state the first to achieve such feat in the Nigeria justice sector. Speaking after she received the “Amazon of the Frontline Bar” award from the Aguata branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA,...

Sen. Ubah Leads Senate Adhoc Committee on Oversight Visit at Warri Refinery

The Senate Adhoc Committee Chairman on Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of Nigerian Refineries, Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah, has led the Senate on an oversight visit to the Warri Refinery, Delta State. A few months ago, President Bola Tinubu announced his government’s plan to revive Nigeria’s refineries as part of efforts to make the country less dependent on imported petroleum products. During the visit on Thursday by the senate committee, they commenced the oversight with a courtesy...

Africa Illustrious Award congratulates Chess Master Tunde Onakoya on a new Record

The Africa Illustrious Award has congratulated Tunde Onakoya, the Founder of Chess in Slums Initiative Lagos, who has set a record of 43 straight hours playing chess at Times Square in New York. In December 2023, Onakoya was honoured by the Africa Illustrious Award with an award of excellent community service, as a Distinguished Personality of the Year 2023, for his work in the slums of Lagos with his Chess in Slums Initiative. Earlier this...

APC Derides PDP, Describes NEC Communique As “Wailing Of Shambolic Party”

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been derided by the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the ruling party describes the communique it (PDP) issued at the end of its 98th National Executive Committee meeting of Thursday April 18, 2024 as nothing short of the hoax and wailing of a shambolic party. The press statement signed by Felix Morka, Esq., National Publicity Secretary of APC, stressing that unsurprisingly, the PDP failed to seize the opportunity of...

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