The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says the All-commodity group import index on average increased by 0.79 per cent in Q4 2023. This is according to the NBS Commodity Price Indices and Terms of Trade for Q4 of 2023 released in Abuja on Thursday. The report said the increase could be attributed to the changes…
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, has ordered marshals drawn from the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, to fish out illegal miners and all those who flout the nation’s mining laws.Alake gave the order while inaugurating the first batch of marshals to combat illegal mining. He said 60 marshals had been…
The 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has said he promised to rebuild Nigeria and not to build a new party. Obi made the remark while disclosing why he ignored the LP’s National convention in Anambra State. Addressing Nigerians on X Space hosted by Parallel Facts on Friday, Peter Obi said he…
Popular and controversial figure Bobrisky has opened up about his journey to embracing transgender identity. In a recent interview with Charly Boy, Bobrisky shared that while studying accounting at the University of Lagos, he ventured into selling unisex clothes as a side hustle. Experimenting with female clothing while marketing his merchandise, he found himself drawn…
The Nigerian economy had an inflow of over $1.5bn in the past few days. This, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) indicates that its monetary policy efforts are working. The Bank’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Hakama Ali, stated these in a statement on Friday. Ali noted that data available to the bank,…
The Delta State Police Command has transferred HRM Clement Ikolo Oghenerukevwe, the arrested traditional ruler of Ewu kingdom in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, to the Nigerian military. This decision was disclosed by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, during a conversation with reporters on Friday morning. Edafe clarified that…
A gangster-turned-politician has died of cardiac arrest in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, authorities said on Thursday. Mukhtar Ansari, the 63-year-old, five-time lawmaker from the state, had been in jail in since 2005. The circumstances of his death are disputed by his family who say he was given a “poisonous substance” in jail….
The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has distanced itself from Wednesday’s national convention of the Labour Party held in Anambra. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, said this in Abuja on Thursday. Oyekanmi said that the conduct of the convention was not monitored by INEC, declining to state further why it was…
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioural economics, Daniel Kahneman, has passed on at 90. He died ‘peacefully’ on Wednesday, March 27 according to a release from Princeton University, whose faculty he had joined in 1993. His cause of death was not provided by the university. Kahneman wrote the best-selling book Thinking, Fast and…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) faced its second electricity system collapse of the year, marking a setback in the distribution of electricity across the nation by electricity distribution companies (DisCos In response to the incident, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) promptly informed its customers, stating, “Kindly be informed there was a system collapse at…
