Business
13% derivation fund ease domestic debts of oil producing states by N611bn
The oil producing states have decreased their domestic debts by approximately N610.84 billion between June 2023 and March, helped by record payments from ...
Metro
Residents storm NBA conference in Enugu to protest continued detention of lawmaker-elect, Bright Ngene
Some residents of Enugu on Monday, August 25, stormed the international conference centre, venue of the Nigerian bar association (NBA) conference, to protest ...
International News
President Lula da Silva hosts Wole Soyinka in Brazil
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on Monday, August 26, 2025, hosted Nigerian Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka in a meeting to ...
Metro
Pandemonium erupts as Kaduna bound passenger train derail, leaving several carriages overturned (Video)
A passenger train travelling from Abuja to Kaduna derailed on Tuesday, August 26 leaving several carriages overturned and triggering panic among those on ...
Education
FG introduce mandatory ethics screening, criminal background checks for all prospective teachers
The federal government has introduced a new framework that mandates all prospective teachers in both public and private schools to undergo ethics screenings ...
Business
Oil output shoots up by 0.8%, 1.71m barrels produced per day – NUPRC
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has reported that Nigeria’s oil output increased by 0.89 percent in July, reaching a total of ...
Metro
Lagos court sentences Gbajabiamila to 24 years in prison for bank fraud
The Lagos state high court in Ikeja convicted and sentenced mortgage banker Sulaiman Olayiwola Gbajabiamila on Monday, August 25, 2025, for defrauding a ...
International News
‘No special visas, immigration privileges for Nigerians, others,’ Japan clarifies about its Africa hometown initiative
The Japanese government has clarified that its new JICA Africa hometown initiative does not include granting Nigerians or other Africans special visas or ...
Business
Petrobras returns to Nigeria 5 years after suspension of its joint venture operations
President Bola Tinubu on Monday, August 25, welcomed the impending return of Petrobras, Brazil’s state owned oil company, to Nigeria, five years after ...
Economy
FG inaugurates new automotive training centre at Lagos university
The federal government has inaugurated a new automotive training centre at the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) in Ikorodu. The ...
