OVER HALF OF NIGERIANS WANT TO LEAVE THE COUNTY – REPORT Over half of Nigerians want to emigrate with the percentage who say they have given ‘a lot’ of thought to emigrating tripling since 2017, a new report has shown. According to the report, this proportion of citizens includes those living in urban areas, the country’s highly educated population, the …

YOU’RE ALL REELECTED,’ TINUBU TELLS LAWMAKERS AFTER ADDRESSING THEM AS 11th ASSEMBLY‘President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday jokingly declared that lawmakers in the 10th National Assembly were “all reelected”. This happened during the president’s presentation of the 2025 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly. Tinubu made the declaration after mistakenly referring to the 10th Assembly as the …

MANY CHILDREN FEARED DEAD IN IBADAN CARNIVAL STAMPEDE Many children have reportedly lost their lives in a stampede that occurred at a carnival in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. The incident occurred in the Bashorun area of Ibadan on Wednesday. The number of casualties have not been ascertained as at the time of filing this report. However, it was learnt that …

TINUBU PRESENTS N47.96TRN 2025 BUDGET TO NATIONAL ASSEMBLY President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday presented a national budget of N47.96 trillion for 2025 to the joint session of the National Assembly. The President said the budget, which he said was put together based on economic realities, would trigger prosperity in Nigeria in 2025 if implemented to the letter. According to him, …

FORM ALLIANCE AGAINST TINUBU – LUKMAN TO OBJ, IBB, GEJ, BUHARI, GOWON A former national vice chairman (North West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has called on former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari; erstwhile Heads of State, Generals Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubukar to form alliance to stop President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in …

DRAMA AS LAWMAKERS STOP RENDITION Of TINUBU’S ANTHEM DURING BUDGET PRESENTATION Members of the National Assembly on Wednesday disrupted an attempt by some of their colleagues to sing President Bola Tinubu’s anthem, ‘On Your Mandate We Shall Stand’, during the joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives for the 2025 budget presentation by the President. The incident occurred …

FG APPROVES ₦30BN MECHANISED FARMING GRANT FOR 30 AGRIC UNIVERSITIES The Federal Government has approved N30bn for the nation’s 30 universities of agriculture to immediately commence mechanised farming. The announcement came with a directive for specialised universities to focus strictly on their core mandates and cease offering programes unrelated to their original purpose. The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, …

MTN PAYS N200BN MONTHLY IN VAT — TAX COMMITTEE The Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has disclosed that MTN Nigeria contributes over N200 billion in Value Added Tax monthly, making it the largest contributor to the nation’s VAT pool. Oyedele made the disclosure recently while speaking as a panellist during Channels Television’s Town …

WHY NNAMDI KANU’S RELEASE MAY NOT END INSECURITY IN SOUTH EAST – SOLUDO The Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, on Tuesday, said he doubted if the release of the detained leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, would end the pervasive insecurity in the South-East, News360 Nigeria reports. Soludo argued that criminals had hijacked the …

BIZZARE! WOMAN WHO SLEPT WITH 100 MEN IN A DAY EYES WORLD RECORD A woman who slept with 100 men in one day has got candid about her challenge. Lily Phillips has made £2million from her use of content creation site. Her career might be a stark contrast to her childhood dreams of owning a wedding dress boutique, like her …

FOOD PRICES RISE TO 60.88% UNDER TINUBUDespite securing multilateral loans amounting to $3.334bn (N5.178tn) and attracting over $4.3bn investments to boost food production, the cost of essential staple food items skyrocketed by 60.88 per cent under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu When Tinubu assumed office in May 2023, food inflation was 24.82 per cent. It jumped to about 40 …

614,937 NIGERIANS KILLED, 2.2M ABDUCTED IN ONE YEAR – NBS No fewer than 614,937 Nigerians were killed and 2,235,954 others kidnapped across the country between May 2023 and April 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed. The NBS disclosed this on Tuesday in its report titled ‘The Crime Experienced and Security Perception Survey (CESPS) 2024’, and based on …

HOW I KILLED 76 WOMEN FOR FORTIFICATION — MYSTERIOUS IBADAN MAN A mysterious Ibadan man whose name is yet unknown had confessed to killing over 70 women for ritual purposes in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State. The man popularly called ‘Mistina Orobo’ born in the Foko area of Ibadan who claimed to have now become a pastor said the …

NO SUFFICIENT REASON FOR CONTINUED DETENTION OF NNAMDI KANU – OHANAEZE The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Nze Ozichukwu Fidelis Chukwu, has stated that the Nigerian government has no sufficient reason to continue detaining Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. In a statement issued by Ohanaeze’s spokesman, Alex Ogbonnia, the organisation’s President General emphasised that …

SENATE MOVES TO BAN USE OF DOLLAR, OTHER FOREIGN CURRENCIES IN NIGERIA A bill seeking to prohibit the use of foreign currency in Nigeria has scaled first reading in the PSenate. The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act to Alter the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007, No. 7, to Prohibit the Use of Foreign Currencies for Remuneration and …