Ailing Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has been receiving chemotherapy for the treatment of leukaemia (blood cancer), which knocks him out for 10 hours after every medication. SaharaReporters exclusively reported in January that Akeredolu was suffering from leukaemia. Leukaemia is a blood cancer caused by a rise in the number of white blood cells in the body….
By Davies Iheamnachor, Port Harcourt Twenty-seven lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly have decamped to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The lawmakers, who were elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, announced their decision during Monday plenary at the Rivers Assembly Complex. The lawmakers were those under the leadership of…
December is a month filled with joy, celebration, and reunions. It is a time when families come together, friends reconnect, and the spirit of giving and love is in the air. In Nigeria, December holds a special place in the hearts of its people, and FirstBank, the country’s premier and leading financial institution, understands the…
Pastor Enoch Adeboye The General overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has revealed how he would like to die. The cleric who disclosed this at the ongoing annual Holy Ghost Congress of the church on Thursday in Ogun State, said he wanted a death similar to one of his uncles….
Lamido Sanusi •Ex-emir entitled to his opinion, NNPCL remains focused, says spokesman A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has advised President Bola Tinubu against occupying the office of the Minister for Petroleum Resources, saying such arrangement will make it difficult for the country to hold the Nigerian National Petroleum…
President Bola Tinubu The Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, will be spending N138,066,187 to combat fake news and print calendars. Part of the sum will also be used to facilitate media appearances for ministers and organise engagement with social media influencers among others. This is contained in the details…
The 2024 Nigerian budget proposal has shown that President Bola Tinubu and his Vice, Kashim Shettima would spend N10.13billion on meals and travels. The N27.5trillion budget proposal is still being examined by the National Assembly. According to the budget proposal, Tinubu will spend N638.5m on local trips and N6.9 billion on foreign trips, totaling N7.6…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has presented an estimate of N76.586billion (Seventy Six Billion, Five Hundred and Eighty Six Million Naira) as its budget proposal for 2024 to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Crimes. Olukoyede who spoke on Tuesday when he appeared before the house of…
…bring them back to us alive – Mother By Egufe Yafugborhi & Chioma Onuegbu Parents whose children were kidnapped along Zamfara Highway on August 17, 2023, while traveling to Sokoto State Orientation Camp for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme have again appealed to the Federal and Akwa Ibom state governments to assist in…
Bloomberg announced today that FirstBank UK Limited (FirstBank UK), the UK subsidiary of First Bank Nigeria Limited, the premier West African bank, has adopted Bloomberg’s Trade Order Management System (TOMS). By integrating TOMS into its workflow, FirstBank UK will have access to a comprehensive suite of data and analytics, communications, as well as order and…
