Against the backdrop of the fragile growth reported for Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, in the first quarter 2021, Q1’21, economists and financial analysts in some financial institutions in Nigeria have come out with divergent forecast of the 2021 year end outlook for the economy.

The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) says a driver died and two other persons sustained injuries in a lone accident on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Tuesday. Mr Olusola Ojuoro, Mowe-Ibafo Divisional Commander of the corps, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident happened at about 6.03 a.m. Ojuoro explained that […]

APC Anambra’s preferred gubernatorial candidate, Hon Azuka Okwuosa has given a breakdown of the measures required to combat insecurity in Anambra state. He enunciated that the security of Anambrarians is a priority to him and he would ensure that it is combated to the latter. Dissecting his blueprint in an interview in May, he identified […]

Economic activities resumed in Nsukka town of Enugu State on Tuesday, after Monday sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that made people to stay at home. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that, streets and roads that were deserted on Monday because of the sit-at-home order came back to life […]

Nigeria’s external reserves fell by 1.7 per cent, month-on-month (MoM) to $34.27 billion in May, the lowest level since May last year.

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) on Tuesday confirmed the qualification of Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna for the rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.ITTF’s Competition Director, Gabor Felegyi, announced Aruna’s qualification in a letter addressed to the President of Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) and copied the President of Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF).Aruna is the […]

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Enugu State chapter, has thrown it’s weight behind the Southern governors over the recent ban on open grazing in the region

…Evbuonogbon villagers rejoice, say our children attend secondary school in Ondo By Ozioruva Aliu MEMBER  representing Ovia Federal Constituency, Edo State, in the House of Representatives, Hon. Dennis Idahosa, has built a secondary school at Evbuonogbon community, Ovia South-West Local Government Area, breaking the age-long practice of indigenes going to neighbouring Ondo State for secondary […]

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, Monday, expressed doubt over the positive outcome of the ongoing consultation on the review of 1999 Constitution across the six geopolitical zones and Federal Capital Territory, FCT. Speaking with Vanguard they said the amendment consultation should focus on areas Nigerians have been agitating for amendment on […]

By Marie-Therese Nanlong The Irigwe natives in Plateau State have raised alarm over what they termed plot by “Fulani nihilists” to wipe them out of their ancestral land without any intervention by “those whose primary responsibility is the security of lives and property of all citizens.” The natives, found in Bassa local government area of […]