Ukraine’s interior minister and a toddler were among at least 14 people killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed into and set fire to a nursery in a Kyiv suburb. Separately, Ukraine said its soldiers again thwarted Russian advances on the frontline city of Bakhmut in the east, hundreds of kilometres (miles) distant, where both Read More…
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Nigerian finance minister: debt trajectory sustainable, no 2023 bond sale
The path that Nigeria’s debt is headed down is manageable. The country’s Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, said on Wednesday that the government had no plans to borrow money from foreign capital markets and that it planned to make major changes to its large debt service-to-revenue ratio throughout the year. The government of Nigeria spent Read More…
My contract with the people of Niger State – Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya
Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya is running for governor of Niger State for the All-Progressives’ Grand Alliance (APGA). She wants things to change. She is an award-winning innovator, an ideation specialist, a serial social entrepreneur, a lawyer, an author, a publisher, and a mentor, and most importantly Khadijah is a mother, who calls herself, the Womb, and a Read More…
Lagos State government feeds on the agbero system – Oladeji, YPP Lagos Central Senatorial District
Blessing Oladeji, CEO, Octave Analytics in response to government corruption is vying for the Lagos Central Senatorial seat on the platform of the Young Progressives Party, YPP. He spoke to LM’s Nkanu Egbe recently. I think I went online and I tried to understand who you are; you happen to be in the tech environment, Read More…
Naira redesigned to fight terror – CBN boss
The Central Bank of Nigeria says that its most recent project, redesigning the naira, will help the country’s many security problems, which range from terrorism to kidnapping, get better. Shamsudeen Imam, Senior Manager, Currency Operations Department, CBN, stated at a programme on Tuesday at the Gombe International Market that circumstances where criminals demanded ransom would Read More…
Nigeria shortlists 139 gas flaring enterprises
The Chief Executive of Nigeria’s petroleum regulator, the Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), announced in a statement that 139 companies have been shortlisted for the next phase of the nation’s commercialisation programme for gas flaring as part of efforts to minimise carbon emissions. The commercialisation of gas burned from Nigeria’s oil fields is planned, Read More…
AMAA film academy founder, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe dies in Lagos
Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, a pioneer in Nigeria’s entertainment sector and the creator of the esteemed AMAA Awards, has passed away. After being in a coma since Saturday, she reportedly passed away at St. Nicolas Hospital in Lagos. While her coworkers and close friends, some of whom visited her in the hospital, refused to believe the news Read More…
Yemi Alade is Spotify’s January “EQUAL Africa Artist”
Yemi Alade, Nigerian Afro Pop artist, has been named as Spotify’s ‘EQUAL Africa Artiste’ for January. Spotify is an internet streaming service. In a statement released on Monday in Lagos, Phiona Okumu, Spotify’s Head of Music for Sub-Saharan Africa, said this. According to her, the Spotify EQUAL Africa programme aims to give female artists the Read More…
Gunmen kidnap 32 people from Edo train station
Gunmen with AK-47s seized more than 30 persons from the Tom Ikimi rail station in Igueben, Edo state, Nigeria, on Saturday. The attack is the latest evidence of escalating insecurity in Africa’s most populous country, challenging the government ahead of a February presidential election. Armed herders assaulted Tom Ikimi station at 4 p.m. on Saturday Read More…
One person killed as Ojota wakes up to bedlam by Yoruba Nation agitators
A police report says that in the early hours of today, hundreds of people pretending to be Yoruba Nation agitators upset normal social and business life in the Ojota area of Lagos. In a statement issued by police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, through his Twitter handle, police from Alausa Division and the Rapid Respond Squad Read More…