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Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, has entered its second recession in five years, pulled down by the impact of COVID-19 restrictions.   Official figures published Saturday confirmed what has been expected in the past few months, that the economy contracted again in the third quarter of this year.   The National Bureau of Statistics, in its […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday bemoaned the pervasive nature of  corruption in the government, saying it was present almost everywhere and at many levels of governance.   The President made the declaration while receiving the Report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the Investigation of Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial […]

Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, is set to resume the importation of petroleum products from one of its northern neighbouring countries, Niger Republic. The Ministry of Petroleum Resources said in a statement on Thursday that the two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding that day for petroleum products transportation and storage. According to the statement, […]

  Cable News Network has said it stands by its report on the shooting of  #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate.   CNN was reacting to the threat of sanctions by the Federal Government, which has dismissed the report, labelling it as misinformation.   A statement by its spokesperson read, “our reporting was carefully and […]

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has suspended his security aide who shot and killed a newspaper vendor in Abuja, he announced early Friday.    In a statement on Friday, the Speaker said he was distraught by the incident, which he only got to know long after it happened.   Gbajabiamila said […]

  The Lagos State Coroner has asked members of the public to come forward to identify persons who were declared missing between October 19 and 27, 2020.   This period covers the days before and after the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate in the state.   This request was made in an […]

Bandits who kidnapped six Assistant Superintendents of Police in northern Nigeria have demanded a ransom of N100m for their release.   They were kidnapped in Katsina State about a week ago on their way from Maiduguri in Bornu State to Zamfara on posting.   They were among nine newly promoted ASPs who were attached to […]

The Nigerian Government has dismissed CNN’s report of massacre of #ENDSARS protesters on October 20 by security agents, describing the incident as ‘massacre without bodies’   Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said this at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday.   He described the report, which has gone viral, as a piece […]

…blames resource control for EndSARS protests   Alhaji Danladi Pasali, National Coordinator of the Buhari Campaign Organization,   has declared that the gold deposits found in Zamfara State belong to Nigeria, and not the state, as has been claimed by the governor.   Pasali was reacting to claims by Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, who has […]

At least fifty persons are said to have died from a strange disease in Olamaboro Local Government Area of the state.   The State House of Assembly has therefore called on State and Federal Ministries of Health to unravel the cause of the disease in order to forestall further deaths.   The House made the […]

The Nigerian Embassy in Germany has suspended a security staff over alleged sexual abuse and other criminal activities in Berlin.   A statement issued by the Nigerian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, said  the staff, name (withheld), was suspended following the allegation in a circulated material on social media that suggested the official was demanding favors […]

Nigeria’s current recession, which was officially announced on Saturday, will be short-lived, Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, has said.   Nigeria slid into its second recession in five years after the gross domestic product fell by 3.62 percent in the third quarter of the year, the National Bureau of Statistics, […]