Nigeria’s naira ranked third among the world’s worst performing currencies this year, a Bloomberg report said. Of the 151 currencies tracked by Bloomberg this year, naira was the world’s worst performer after the Lebanese pound and the Argentine peso, after closing at N1,043 per $1 on Thursday — about 72 hours to the end of … Read more
Many have said 2023 would go down in history as a rocky year for Kannywood, the Hausa-language film of northern Nigeria. From piracy, which has negatively impacted the livelihood of filmmakers, actors, and auxiliary workers, to shifts in alliances and stiffer censorship by the Censors Board, and deaths of some of the brightest stars in … Read more
Nigeria will kick off the delivery of gas to South Africa for the first in the history of trade relations between the two nations if talks between Riverside LNG and counterparts in Africa’s most industrialised nation succeed. “We’d probably very early in the year close out another segment of the market, an off-take for South … Read more
Emeka Ike’s ex-wife, Suzanne Emma, has opened up on why she divorced her husband. The couple’s marriage ended in 2015 when Suzanne filed for divorce, citing claims of physical and verbal abuse throughout their relationship. In March 2017, a Customary Court in Lagos Island, South-west Nigeria, dissolved their 14-year-old marriage. The couple have four children … Read more
As Nigeria continues to battle various security challenges, some stakeholders in the education sector have urged the government to prioritise research in internal security. The stakeholders including researchers, industry experts, and policymakers gave their recommendations at the 4th Education Writers Association of Nigeria (EWAN) Summit in Lagos on Wednesday. In his keynote address, the former … Read more
Spotify, an online streaming platform, has rated Nigerian rapper, singer, songwriter and record executive, Olamide Adedeji, popularly known as “Olamide”, as the ‘most influential street pop artiste of his generation’.Benewaah Boateng, Spotify’s editor for West Africa, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Lagos. Boateng said lately, the undeniable rise of the sub-genre “Street … Read more
The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Ohanenye, has denied advocating that Nigerian women should be exempted from paying tax. Mrs Ohaneye, in a statement by her spokesperson, disassociated herself from a TV publication on Tuesday insinuating that she said women should not pay tax in Nigeria. The report stated that the minister made the statement … Read more
Over 1,000 Nigerians are stranded in the UK after receiving fake employment letters, the UN migration agency in Nigeria disclosed. According to Vanguard newspaper, IOM’s Chief of Mission in Nigeria, Laurent De Boeck, disclosed this in Abuja on Monday where he advised potential migrants to be cautious of a syndicate that specialises in offering fake … Read more
The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has stopped former Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development Pauline Tallen from holding public. In a judgement delivered on Monday, the court condemned Ms Tallen’s disparaging comments against the judiciary concerning a decision of the Federal High Court in Adamawa State last year. The Federal High … Read more
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) says there is a high level of corruption across various sectors in the three arms of government and private sector. The Provost of the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria, Tunde Babawale, a professor, said this at the validation meeting of the Nigeria Corruption Index (NCI) Survey … Read more
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