India-Nigeria trade hits $9bn as firms deepen local production
By Yinka Kolawole India-Nigeria bilateral trade rose by 26 per cent to about $9 billion in 2025–26, from $7.13 billion recorded in 2024–25, as economic ties between both countries deepen beyond oil and commodities into manufacturing, healthcare, energy, technology and job creation. The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abishek Singh, disclosed that more than 200 Indian […]
Tompolo, Ateke, Boyloaf, others pray for Yar’Adua
EX-MILITANT leaders — High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo; Ateke Tom, Victor Ben Ebikabowei, alias Boyloaf; Farah Dagogo and others, yesterday, joined other Nigerians in praying for the quick recovery of President Umaru Yar’Adua, who is on hospital bed at the King Faisal Hospital, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
Review of Tariff, Fiscal Incentives C’ttee to generate investment in productive sector
By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin—The Presidential Committee on Review of Tariff and Fiscal Incentives has been mandated to generate investment in the productive sector that would help create more jobs and make lives more bearable for the masses. Chairman of the committee and Governor of Kwara state, Dr Bukola Saraki, speaking in an interview with journalists […]
Five die in Lagos auto crashes
Five persons including a Police Inspector, weekend, lost their lives in separate auto crashes in Lagos, while the fate of two others still hangs in the balance as doctors are battling to save their lives.
World AIDS Day: Group calls for special focus on youth
AS Nigeria joins the rest of the world tomorrow to mark this year’s World AIDS Day, a non-governmental organisation, the Youth Development and Empowerment Foundation (YODEF), has advocated special focus on young people as more than half of new infection are between 15 and 29 years of age.
