By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has sacked six Ministers from his cabinet and also forwarded to the National Assembly seven ministerial nominees to take over from the vacant positions. The Ministers that were relieved from the cabinet were Prof. Tahir Mamman, (Education), Uju Kennedy Ohanenye (Women Affairs), Mohammed Gwarzo (State for Housing),…
fuel Group Managing Director, Rainoil Ltd, Gabriel Ogbechie, has asked Nigerians to prepare to pay full market prices for petroleum products as a result of the full deregulation of the downstream sector.After President Bola Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, the pump price of petrol rose from N198 to N545 per litre and the Nigerian…
Riding on its recently released half-year financials, Africa’s Global Bank – United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced its unaudited results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024, where it recorded strong and impressive growth across all its key indicators. As in the first two quarters of the current fiscal year, the bank’s…
By Elizabeth Adegbesan We are now going back to the old ways of living in Africa. No thanks to the excruciating economic conditions Nigerians are facing. Gone are the days when we compete with brands and qualities of toothpaste. Even the least of the toothpastes cost an arm these days, and only the super-rich can…
By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja Nigeria’s weak electricity grid collapsed again on Saturday morning throwing the country into a nationwide blackout. It is the third time the national power grid has collapsed in the past seven days and the eighth in total this year. A check by Vanguard on data supplied by the National System Operator,…
Police deny chasing man to death in Lagos canal Credit: X|Omorhemi A yet-to-be-identified man has succumbed to the injuries he sustained after falling into a canal in an attempt to escape arrest by policemen who reportedly labelled him a fraudster in the Ayobo area of Ipaja, Lagos State. City Round gathered that a friend to…
Super Eagles stranded for 12 hours at Al Abraq International Airport in Libya The Nigeria Football Federation has decided to pull the Super Eagles out of Tuesday’s 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Libya. This follows a frustrating 12-hour ordeal at Al Abraq International Airport in Libya, where the team has been stranded…
(FULL LIST) From fuel costs to passport fees, Nigerians struggle under the yoke of price hikes Nigerians have lamented worsening living conditions after the recent hike in fuel prices, Saturday PUNCH reports. The hardship, which started after the removal of fuel subsidy and devaluation of the naira, was exacerbated on Wednesday when the pump price of fuel…
Oluremi Tinubu First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, on Thursday, recalled the beautiful landscape on the campus of the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State, while she was a student of the institution. Mrs Tinubu, who said over the years, the green landscape on the campus has been largely eroded, demanded urgent efforts…
President Bola Tinubu The Federal Government, under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu, has secured loans worth $6.45bn from the World Bank in just 16 months. The amount increased to the new figure following the recent approval of three new loans totalling $1.57bn from the World Bank for various projects in Nigeria and is expected…
