By Efe Onodjae  Nigerian and other countries in West and Central Africa have committed over $27 billion to port infrastructure expansion projects aimed at strengthening regional trade integration, improving maritime logistics and driving economic growth across the sub-region. Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho, disclosed this yesterday during the opening of […]

The Executive Secretary/CEO of the National Sugar Development Council, NSDC, Mr. Kamar Bakrin, has said that developing Nigeria’s sugar industry could significantly address unemployment, insecurity and rural community underdevelopment by creating massive jobs and attracting investments to rural communities. Bakrin stated this during a strategic meeting between the NSDC and the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, […]

Founding leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, has praised the peaceful and orderly conduct of the party’s Delta Central senatorial primary, describing the exercise as free, fair, and credible. Speaking to journalists at Evwreni Ward 8 in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Emerhor commended party members for demonstrating […]

•Sub-Saharan Africa remains  most expensive By  Babajide Komolafe Diaspora remittances into Nigeria stabilised at $21.8 billion in 2025 despite mounting global economic pressures, tighter immigration policies in major economies and rising transfer costs across Sub-Saharan Africa. Vanguard analysis of  data from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Quarterly Statistical Bulletin for fourth quarter 2025, Q4’25, showed […]

By Joseph Erunke The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Ogun Joint Campus Council,JCC, and the National Association of Ogun State Students, NAOSS, have endorsed the emergence of Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, as the All Progressives Congress, APC flag bearer for the Ogun East Senatorial District. The student bodies described Abiodun’s emergence as a […]

The anti-graft agency accused the former minister and her co-defendants of misappropriating about $1.3 million and N746.6 million.

By Kingsley Adegboye The Department of Climate Change in the Federal Ministry of Environment under National Adaptation Plan (NAP), last week in Lagos held a one-day stakeholders’ conference on awareness-campaign to advance Nigeria’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP), even as stakeholders noted that flooding and other challenges of climate change remain major risks. Participants at the […]

The Delborough Lagos’ Board Chairman, Obi of Onitsha, His Royal Majesty Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Ugochukwu Achebe CFR, mni warmly congratulates Dr Stanley Uzochukwu on successful executive leadership and performance trainings at the two most famous Universities in the world, Oxford University London and Harvard Kennedy School, United States recently. The Founder and CEO of Stanel […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday granted N100 million bail to the detained immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai

The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, has closed the sale of Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for its 2027 presidential ticket amid indications that only 2023 Labour Party Presidential Candidate

Nigeria’s medical scientists yesterday raised fresh alarm over the risk of Ebola slipping into the country

By Elizabeth Osayande Cambridge University Press & Assessment (Cambridge) and NGO Alsama Project have signed an agreement during the Education World Forum to collaborate on a new qualification for refugees and displaced young people that can be rolled out in Nigeria and worldwide. The newly proposed G12++ qualification seeks to address the educational crisis faced […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS — THE Lagos State government, yesterday, disclosed that properties valued at N118.32 billion were saved from fire incidents in 2025, while properties worth N19.72 billion were lost to various fire outbreaks across the state. The Commissioner for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Relations, Mr Olugbenga Oyerinde, disclosed this during the 2026 ministerial press […]

THE reported killing of one of the teachers abducted along some students in some schools in Ahoro-Esinele in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State has raised serious concerns

By Elizabeth Adegbesan The  Naira yesterday depreciated to N1,395 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,390 per dollar last Friday. Likewise, the local currency depreciated to N1,373.5 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market,  NFEM . Data  from the Central Bank of Nigeria,  CBN, showed that the indicative exchange rate for the market […]