…Special economic zones generate $500m export revenue, 20,000 jobs By Progress Godfrey Nigeria recorded a N12 trillion trade surplus in the first half of 2025 as non-oil exports grew by 21 percent to $12.8 billion, signaling a strong export rebound driven by policy reforms under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment. The performance reflects a […]

AN advocacy group, Ibile Justice Forum, yesterday, raised the alarm over illegal mining activities in Iloro I, Iloro II and Ibiri villages, in Ado-Odo community of Ogun State, urging the state and Federal Governments to recover their farmlands for the community.

No fewer than nine persons were killed by suspected bandits and herdsmen in Oyo and Benue states in the last 24 hours.

Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has warned that the combination of heavy taxation, low wages and rising national debt posed a serious threat to Nigeria’s economic and democratic stability.

TRADERS and residents of Boundary Market area, Ajegunle, Lagos State have decried the poor state of the environment, saying that poor waste management practices have led people to dump their refuse on the roads.

The Naira yesterday depreciated to N1,490 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,470 per dollar on Tuesday.

The Zamfara State Government has raised the alarm over what it described as the harassment and intimidation of opposition figures in the state through the use of federal security apparatus.

To present a formidable opposition to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2027 general elections, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-South Chairman, Mr. Emmanuel Ogidi, has said the party will hold high-level meetings with its former presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

The legal team of popular cleric, Pastor Chris Okafor, has challenged social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, VDM, actress Doris Ogala and other individuals making allegations against him to submit concrete proof to the Nigeria Police, warning that failure to do so would attract full legal consequences.

A group known as Concerned Rivers People (CRP) has alleged that the ongoing political tension in Rivers State has extended to social media, with claims that some influencers were approached to promote narratives critical of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. In a statement issued by the group’s Director of Communication, […]

By Innocent Anaba The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has alleged planned campaigns of calumny against it by politicians and groups with vested interests in suspects being investigated or facing prosecution by the commission. EFCC Head, Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale in a statement, yesterday, said: “A motley crowd of paid jobbers comprising politicians, […]

By Jimitota Onoyume, Assistant News Editor The governorship election in Rivers state and the presidential poll are billed for 2027 but the political atmosphere is already at a feverish pitch in the state with so much crack in the political class. The state is split heavily by the struggle between loyalists of the governor of […]

A 17-year-old boy (name withheld) has been paraded naked round Ajegbole community in Gabu ward of Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State for stealing tubers of yam.

The Registered Board of Trustees of Mount Zion LightHouse Full Gospel Church has nullified the suspension and excommunication of some of it members by Archbishop Nyong Ayankdue against Bishop Peter Udokang, Elder Marshal Udoh and Elder Emmanuel Edoho. In a statement by Mrs Uduak Akpan, the church declared the action null and void and without […]

Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company and most valuable unicorn, has acquired Mono, a Y Combinator-backed Nigerian open banking infrastructure provider