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Nigeria has secured a World Bank facility worth $800 million.The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing State House correspondents on outcome of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja.The meeting was presided over by President Muhammmadu Buhari. Mrs Ahmed said …

 The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said he is being pressured to leave the county with attacks against his person emanating from different quarters. Obi, who said this is in a statement on Wednesday night on his Twitter handle, also added that the leaked audio conversation …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Wednesday in Abuja sealed two shops for allegedly selling unapproved products to Nigerians.The shops are located in the Zuba Central motor park and Utako main market. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that some of the unregistered products said …

Foreign investors ignored 27 states as the value of capital importation into Nigeria fell by 20.5 percent to $5.33 billion in 2022 from $6.70 billion in 2021. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed this in its latest Nigerian Capital Importation report for the four quarters of 2022. The publication …

Bob Lee, the founder of Cash App and former chief technology officer at Square, has been stabbed to death. He was stabbed to death, close to downtown San Francisco in the United States.Police were called to a stabbing report in the city’s Rincon Hill neighbourhood, in the 300 block of …

It was learnt that the gunmen, suspected to be herdsmen, invaded the Kogi town on SundayJacob Wodi Hulobu, a resident pastor of the Living Faith Church in Aloko-Oganenigwu, Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State, has been reportedly killed by gunmen. According to a source, the pastor had escaped with …

Ahead of the sentence of Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, following their conviction by London’s Central Criminal Court for organ trafficking, Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has written an emotional letter to the court’s Clark seeking linient sentence for the Nigerian Senator and his wife. The UK court, otherwise known …

The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 7, and Monday, April 10, as Public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, announced this in Abuja on Wednesday, April 5. In a statement signed by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Belgore, on Wednesday, April 5, …

1952 was the year I finished secondary school and I had written and passed entrance examinations into the University College, Ibadan which was the only tertiary institution available in the country then. Before the university session started, I got this job in a medical equipments supply company, where I had, …

The immediate past President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Tuesday, pleaded not guilty to 34 criminal charges stemming from hush money allegedly paid to a porn star before the 2016 election, AFP reports.The 76-year-old Republican became the first American president to be arrested on criminal charges when he …