Super Eagles media team on Sunday night confirmed that players and officials of Nigeria’s senior men’s national team were held hostage by Libyan authorities upon their arrival at Al Abaq Airport in Al Abaq In a video posted by the Eagles media team, the players and officials, along with their luggage, were left stranded at the…
In the first quarter, none of the four international bilateral customers supplied by the power generation companies made payments against the cumulative invoice of $14.19m. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission revealed this in its latest second-quarter 2024 report. Out of the $15.60m invoice issued by the market operator between April and June, the international customers…
“The incident was reported around 12:30 pm when a concerned citizen reported that unknown individuals believed to be cultists arrived in an unregistered Toyota Corolla Sports car with a pump action shotgun and pistol at Jide Jones, Oke Ilewo in Ibara,” the spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command Omolola Odutola said. “The assailants opened…
The Federal Government, through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, has signed an agreement to begin gas sales to the methanol-manufacturing project of the $3.3bn Brass Fertilizer & Petrochemical Company Ltd. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, stated at the signing ceremony held at the ministry’s headquarters that the gas sales-and-purchase agreement…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for urgent action against challenges faced by the Girl child in order to achieve global goals. UNICEF’s Chief of the Field Office for South-West Nigeria, Celine Lafoucriere in a statement to commemorate the 2024 International Day of the Girl Child explained that one in every five Women…
The Senate has requested that the Federal Government proclaim a state of emergency for the protection and welfare of girl children to meet the needs of girls all around the nation in terms of their health, safety, and education. In addition, the upper house called on state governments to domesticate and implement the Violence Against…
Greece international player George Baldock passed away on Wednesday, shocking the Greek football community and bringing its usually bitter rival supporters together in tributes. The 31-year-old right-back, an English native and former Premier League veteran for Sheffield United, was discovered dead in his swimming pool at his residence in the Glyfada neighborhood of southern Athens on Wednesday…
The price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), or petrol, has increased across all of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited’s (NNPC) retail outlets in Lagos from N855 per litre to N998 per litre. From the price it sold for yesterday, this is an increase of 12.7%, or N113 a litre. Drivers were unprepared for the early…
The Federal Government’s revenue from Foreign Direct Investment into Nigeria in the second quarter of 2024 dropped to $29.83m. According to the National Bureau of Statistics’ most recent capital importation data, foreign direct investment (FDI) fell by 65.33 percent from $86.03 million during the same time last year. Based on available data up until 2013,…
Nigerians should not be alarmed, as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has implemented measures to guarantee the security of all funds in financial institutions nationwide. A statement by the apex bank’s AG. Director, Corporate Communications, Hakama Ali, on Tuesday reassured the public of its unwavering commitment to ensuring the stability and reliability of the…
