Vice-President Kashim Shettima has disclosed that Nigeria has mobilized over half a billion dollars for innovative, profitable, equitable and sustainable food systems transformation initiative. Shettima made this known while chairing a high-level meeting on the first day of the UN Food Systems ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration, NAFDAC, has warned Nigerians not to patronize Whippy Real Mayonnaise. Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director General of NAFDAC, disclosed this in a notice on Monday. Adeyeye stated that the name of the company responsible for the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary  of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Tuesday 25th July 2023 1. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, lambasted Nigerian leaders, accusing most of them of being empty as far as development issues were concerned. Obasanjo made this ...

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has stated that its members further increased the prices of petrol at the pumps in Nigeria so as to remain afloat, citing the need to align with the reality of the current dynamics in the market. Last Tuesday, the Nigerian ...

By Okechukwu Nnodim Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, decried Nigeria’s inability to live up to expectations since it got independence about 63 years ago, stressing that the country had not only disappointed itself but also Africa and the world. Obasanjo disclosed this while ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The federal government has said Point of Sale, PoS agents found guilty of price fixing will pay a fine of up to N10 million or three months prison sentence. The Federal Competition & Consumer Protection Commission disclosed in a statement on Monday by its Executive Vice ...

By Seun Opejobi Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole has condemned the N30,000 minimum wage. Oshiomhole described the current minimum wage as “criminal wage,” stressing that he pays his cleaner N60, 000. Featuring on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Oshiomhole said the current ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Monday 24th July 2023 1. No fewer than eight persons have reportedly died while 11 persons are said to be in critical condition after allegedly taking killer alcoholic drinks in some parts of Ogun State. ...

Vice President Kashim Shettima has departed Abuja to represent President Bola Tinubu at two major international summits in Rome, Italy, and St Petersburg, Russia. Shettima, who left the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 3 pm Sunday, will join other global leaders for the first ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has released the final lists of successful candidates for the 2023 recruitment exercise for Narcotic Officer and Narcotic Assistant cadres. A statement released on Sunday by the agency spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said successful candidates for cadet, ...

By Nsikak Nseyen The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has shifted the date to effect new tariff toll fare at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) from July 17 to Aug. 1. In a statement signed by the FAAN Management on Sunday in Abuja, the postponement was to make the airport ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Sunday 23rd July 2023 1. Presidential spokesman, Dele Alake, has condemned allegations by Atiku Abubakar, former vice president, that the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) was plotting to undermine ...

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, will likely unveil the names of the ministerial nominees at plenary this week. Plenaries at both chambers of the National Assembly are held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. There has been serious agitation over the delay of President Bola Tinubu in ...

Against the backdrop of the recent hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol, leading opposition figures have called on President Bola Tinubu to think outside the box and come up with a measure to cushion the hardship currently being experienced by Nigerians or risk their ...

Pharmacists and patients have lamented the increase in prices of drugs, saying the increase was up to 100 per cent. The pharmacists said the increase was a result of inflation, erratic foreign exchange rate and the increase in the prices of petrol. The Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Saturday 22nd July 2023 1. The Federal Government has approved the upward review of school fees of all Federal Government Colleges, FGCs, also known as federal unity colleges from ₦45,000 to ₦100,000. The ...

Dr Ifedayo Adetifa is the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. In this interview, Adetifa speaks on the case of anthrax discovered in a farm in Niger State, insisting that people should refrain from eating animal hides, also known as ponmo, bush meat and dead animals ...

By  John Akinfehinwa The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has appealed to the Federal Government to urgently provide genuine palliatives, stating that Nigerian workers are facing the worst moment in their lives and now go to work on an empty stomach. Kogi State chairman of TUC, Sule Ahmed Tijani, ...

Nigeria’s electricity generation, yesterday, dropped Week-on-Week, by 16.4 per cent to 3,501.20 megawatts, MW, from 4,187.6 MW recorded Thursday, last week. Checks by Vanguard indicated the situation occurred because of many factors, including the poor state of plants and low gas supply to thermal ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, has shared N907.054 billion as June revenue to federal, state and local government councils. The amount represented an increment from N714.629 billion shared in May. Director of the Press Office of the Accountant General of the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Friday 21st July 2023 1. The National Economic Council, comprising 36 state governors and Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Thursday concluded a plan for state governments to implement cash transfer ...

By Seun Opejobi The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, has urged President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergence on the country’s refineries. IPMAN Chairman in Rivers State, Dr Joseph Obele, made the call against the backdrop of the hike of the pump price ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Thursday 20th July 2023 1. President Bola Tinubu has sought confirmation of the Senate for appointments of members and Executive Management of the governing board of the North East Development Commission, ...

By Dayo Johnson, Regional Editor, South-West, Udeme Akpan, Wole Mosadomi, Victor Ahiuma-Young, Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Ndahi Marama, Obas Esiedesa & Efe Onodjae, AKURE Anger, frustration, and despondency were the situation yesterday, as Nigerians woke up to yet another steep increase in the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Wednesday 19th July 2023 1. President Bola Tinubu has directed an immediate review of the N8,000 conditional cash transfer programme initially proposed to ease the harsh effects of the fuel subsidy removal. ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has warned Nigerians against consuming meat of sick animals as they may contain anthrax. This came on a day the House of Representatives urged the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ...

President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, said his administration will review its earlier plan to distribute monthly cash grants of N8,000 to 12 million households for six months as part of efforts to assuage the hardship occasioned by fuel subsidy removal. This followed public criticisms of the ...

There was widespread anger by Nigerians, on Tuesday, following the hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other oil marketers across the country. In Abuja and Ondo State, for instance, the cost of petrol ...

By Ogaga Ariemu Amid the rise in fuel pump price to N617 per litre, the federal government has indicated a strong commitment to partnerships with the private sector to make electric vehicles available for Nigerians. According to NAN, Jelani Aliyu, the Director-General of the National Automotive ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Tuesday 18th July 2023 1. The National Secretary of All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Iyiola Omisore has been officially replaced with the Deputy National Secretary of the party, Festus Fuanter. ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Monday 17th July 2023 1. There were controversies, on Sunday, over the alleged resignation of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu. While some sources confirmed ...

The Federal Government has withdrawn the Mobile Police Force personnel attached to several Very Important Persons, including ex-governors, former ministers and lawmakers. The order, which was contained in a police wireless message from Mopol 45 Force Headquarters, Abuja, affected Daura Buhari, ...

The Federal Government is leaning towards tackling the hardship caused by the removal of fuel subsidy with a twin agenda. This, according to Vanguard and Empowered Newswire sources, includes the provision of palliatives to cushion the effects of the removal of subsidy and N200,000 minimum wage put ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, on Saturday accused the Federal Government of giving national awards to individuals who “stole the country dry” while failing to recognise the roles played by teachers in moulding the “leaders of the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Sunday 16th July 2023 1. Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar met at a wedding ceremony in Abuja on Saturday. This is one of the rare meetings between the duo since a ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria said there is no going back on implementing its new service charges framework on Monday, July 17. Elegbede Segun, the National Publicity Secretary of AMMBAN, disclosed this on Saturday in an exclusive interview with DAILY ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Saturday 15th July 2023 1. Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has faulted the mode that the federal government adopted for the distribution of N500 billion in palliatives for small-scale industries. ...

Civil rights activists have discredited the National Assembly’s approval of President Bola Tinubu’s request of N500bn to cushion the effects of the removal of fuel subsidy on the poor, noting that it is better invested in infrastructure as there is no dependable data system to carry out a ...

By Ishola Oludare A financial expert, Gbenga Adeoye, has asked President Bola Tinubu to quench the plan by his government to distribute N8,000 to 12 million poor Nigerians in six months. Recall that the President, on Thursday, requested N500 billion from the National Assembly, supposedly to be ...

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has urged consumers of electricity to express their opinions following 11 Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos, application for fresh tariff review. The new application aims at getting approval from NERC to go ahead with their upward ...

By Don Silas Mrs Funmi Sessi, a labour leader, on Friday, said the Federal Government’s plan to give N8,000 to 12 million households for six months would be like a drop of water in the ocean. Sessi, Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Lagos Chapter, stated this in an interview with the News ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of \latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Friday 14th July 2023 1. The Senate, on Thursday, confirmed the appointment of the Service Chiefs nominated by President Bola Tinubu. This was a sequel to the consideration and approval of a motion brought ...

The Senate has approved President Bola Tinubu’s request for $800 million borrowing from the World Bank. The president’s request was in a letter read by Godswill Akpabio, Senate President, at the plenary on Thursday. Tinubu, in the letter, explained that the loan would be used to scale up ...

By Williams Anuku President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared a state of emergency on food security. Special Adviser to the President, Special Duties, Communication and Strategy, Dele Alake, announced the development at the Presidential Villa Abuja on Thursday. Alake in a statement said the ...

The House of Representatives has approved the request of President Bola Tinubu for an amendment to the 2022 Appropriation Act. The approval followed Tinubu’s request for N500 billion for palliatives to Nigerians in order to reduce the hardship caused by subsidy removal. The amendment passed ...

By  Samson Atekojo Usman Nigerian Senate on Thursday confirmed the Service Chiefs whose appointments were transmitted to the Senate by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for legislative action. The confirmation followed the screening by the Committee of the whole which was presided over by the Senate ...

By Kingsley Adegboye COMMUTERS, motorists and residents, who ply the ever-busy the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, are experiencing nightmare, after the Eid-el-kabir celebration (Sallah holidays) as the notorious traffic jam returned to the road in full swing, due to on-going reconstruction of the dual ...

No fewer than 21 states have failed to implement the 65-year retirement age for teachers. Former President Muhammadu Buhari, during the 2020 World Teachers Day, promised that teachers in Nigeria would enjoy a new retirement age. The Federal Executive Council had in January 2021 approved the ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission says it has recovered N454bn looted public funds and secured 90 convictions in the last four years. The ICPC Resident Anti-Corruption Commissioner in Osun State, Mr. Demola Bakare, disclosed this on Wednesday at an event in ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Thursday 13th July 2023 1. The Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja has dismissed amnesty pleas for bandits and terrorists. Lagbaja said the amnesty programme has failed to achieve its purpose ...