The International Monetary Fund(IMF) has approved Nigeria’s request for $3.4 billion loan to fight the devastating effect of the COVID-19. The loan, which has a maximum repayment period of five years was approved by the Fund’s board Tuesday. The emergency financial assistance was approved under the Rapid Financing Instrument to support the authorities’ efforts in […]
Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to report that the Federal Government has requested his account statements and that of his wife, Patience, from banks in the United States. Nigeria is requesting “all documents concerning any transactions to, from, or for the benefit” of Jonathan and his wife between 2009 and the present day. […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says the country recorded crude oil and gas export sales of 434.85million dollars in January. The corporation disclosed this in it’s Monthly Financial and Operations Report released in Abuja, yesterday. The sales, the NNPC said, represents an increase of 94.30 per cent pitched against the December 2019 figures. It […]
Kaduna State Governor, Nasiru El-Rufai, has recovered from Coronavirus after four weeks of isolation and treatment. On his tweeter handle, the Governor announced yesterday that after nearly four weeks of observing a strict medical regime, he had received the all-clear after two consecutive negative test results. He thanked Almighty Allah for His grace and mercy […]
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission By Ikenna Anyanwu Senior Nigerian lawyers have weighed-in on recent altercation between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and Senator Charles Grassley, the Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Finance, expressing concern at the exchange of words. Grassley reportedly wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Money […]
Nigeria’s Second Republic Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide, is dead. He was 88. He died in his Ibadan, Oyo State, home early today. Mr Toye Akinrilola, spokesman of the UCH, said his body was brought to the morgue at about 2 am today. Akinjide, a reputable lawyer and senior advocate, […]
The Yoruba World Congress (YWC) on Monday rubbished the several empathies for Abba Kyari, late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. The body labeled Kyari as Nigeria’s de facto President and suggested that he was the one controlling the nation’s affairs. YWC President, Prof. Banji Akintoye, in a statement issued by Adeyemi Adeleye, the […]
Journalists who attended the burial ceremony of President Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days by the Presidency. In a statement released by the Deputy Director of Information in the State House Attah Esa on Sunday April 19, the affected journalists were told that the directive was a […]
By New Nigerian Politics NNP has been informed that the Chief of Staff to President Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari has died. He died in Lagos on April 17 after contracting the coronavirus. In all likelihood, Kyari would have been rushed to an European hospital for first-class treatment from the deadly virus had international borders and […]
By Vincent Ujumadu, Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Dennis Agbo, Chinonso Alozie, Ugochukwu Alaribe & Eric Ugbor The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, alleged that China recorded 20 million unreported deaths to the coronavirus pandemic. He also alleged that what China is doing in Nigeria and Africa as a […]
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