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President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the European Union to make new trade deals and policies that will help stem economic migration from Africa to Europe.  Buhari, who is currently in Brussels for the EU-AU summit, said irregular migration from Africa to the global north is draining Africa’s talent pool and creating political crises […]

Many Lagosians have taken to filling stations in unusually large numbers, with jerrycans, to purchase petrol. The development is as a result of the petrol scarcity that persists in the country due to what regulators have described as efforts to recall “contaminated products” in circulation. On February 9, Mele Kyari, group managing […]

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, says President Muhammadu Buhari is “healthier than most young Nigerians” criticising him on health issues. Shehu spoke on Thursday via Zoom in an interview on Channels Television. Buhari is currently in Brussels, Belgium, for the sixth European Union-African Union (EU-AU) summit. In some of the pictures of […]

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) says it will collaborate with the Joint Tax Board (JTB) to increase aggregate tax revenue by 200 percent. The governors’ forum said this on Wednesday at its second meeting for the year. In a communique released after the meeting, Kayode Fayemi, chairman of NGF and governor of […]

Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, says it is “elitist” to assume that the N5,000 monthly national cash transfer to vulnerable households is insignificant. The minister spoke on Thursday during a briefing with state house correspondents. She made the comment when asked about the relevance of […]

Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3.4 percent in 2021, the strongest since 2014. The figure is the first annual growth above 3 percent since President Muhammadu Buhari won the 2015 election. In 2014, the economy grew 6.3 percent. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said this in its fourth-quarter GDP […]

A disciplinary panel of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) has summoned Abdulmumin Jibrin, an executive director of the agency, over alleged misconduct. In a letter dated February 15 and addressed to Jibrin, Zubairu Salihu, chairman of a disciplinary committee, said the former Kano lawmaker is being summoned because he failed to respond to […]

There was panic at the Lagos campus of the Nigerian Law School on Wednesday night after a fire broke out causing a stampede. Source: Top Stories

The Police Service Commission (PSC) says it suspended two police officers — Sunday Ubua and James Bawa — named in the cocaine deal involving Abba Kyari, suspended deputy commissioner of police. Ikechukwu Ani, spokesperson of the PSC, announced the suspension, in a statement on Thursday. “The Police Service Commission has suspended assistant […]