Nigeria’s Economic Outlook for 2024: Growth Drivers and Challenges
Sep 25, 2024 · To understand the economic growth Nigeria potential, we need to address some vital numbers. For instance, overall inflation in 2024 has reached 30% which is the highest number in the past few years. On top of that, food inflation got even worse, and it’s all due to the government un-pegging the value of the Nigerian Naira from USD.
APC to PDP: You’re politicising stampedes – Nigerians haven’t …
Dec 24, 2024 · The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is politicising the recent stampedes that have occurred in the country. Within a week, three stampedes that occurred in Oyo, Anambra, and the federal capital territory (FCT) led to the loss of more than 40 lives ...
Interpol declares 14 Nigerians wanted for ‘drug trafficking, robbery’
Dec 25, 2024 · At least 14 Nigerians have been declared wanted by the international criminal police organisation (Interpol) for alleged human and drug trafficking, robbery, cheating, and forgery. Red Notices published on the Interpol website stated that the suspects are wanted by various countries. The ...
Ex-minister Gwarzo kicks against dismissal from Tinubu’s cabinet
The sacked Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Abdullahi Gwarzo, has kicked against his removal from President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet.
Five feared dead as sit-at-home enforcers attack Anambra …
Nov 18, 2024 · Communities in Anambra Central Senatorial Zone are in tension as gunmen said to be enforcing the outlawed sit-at-home order wreaked havoc on Monday morning. The attacks which happened between 8am and 10am in Abatete, Abagana and Ukpo left no fewer than five persons dead. A source told our ...
‘Blending is not a crime’ — Mele Kyari speaks on PH refinery …
Dec 5, 2024 · Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, says it is not a crime to blend petroleum products at the old Port Harcourt refinery. Kyari, who spoke at the commissioning of the NUPENG Towers in Lagos on Wednesday, said the refinery is up ...
Global South governments standing up to Big Tobacco’s rampant …
Nov 5, 2024 · Held from 23-24 October in Quezon City, Philippines, the National Tobacco Administration’s (NTA) global anti-illicit trade summit aimed high, but like many similar efforts, fell prey to familiar pitfalls.
Again, National sports festival postponed to May 2025
Dec 20, 2024 · The National Sports Festival scheduled to be held in January has again been postponed to May 2025. The 22nd Sports Festival, tagged “Gateway Games, Ogun 2024”, will now be held between May 16 and 30, 2025. Ogun State, during the closing ceremony of the 21st NSF on December 10, 2022, won the bid ...
NAFDAC rejects registration of ‘lung-cleansing herbal tea’ for …
Dec 16, 2024 · The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has dismissed claims that it approved a “long-cleansing herbal tea” for smokers. In a statement on Saturday, Mojisola Adeyeye, director-general of NAFDAC, said the product, identified as Lungitox (smokers pride), said the ...
Dangote’s bid for monopoly, recipe for disaster in Nigeria – …
Nov 6, 2024 · Three major oil marketers have told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the planned monopoly of the energy sector by Dangote Petroleum Refinery will spell doom for the country’s oil sector.