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  President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday disclosed that the federal government is targeting an exchange rate of N1,500 to the dollar to support the effective execution of the 2025 budget This marks a decrease of roughly N200 from the current ...

  President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday presented a N47.9 trillion budget for the 2025 fiscal year to a joint session of the National Assembly at the House of Representatives chamber.   Dubbed The Restoration Budget, it aligns with the 2025-2027 ...

  The Oyo State Government, on Monday, vowed to prosecute a reckless driver found culpable in the de.ath of an officer of the State Traffic Management Authority, Kehinde Fabunmi, at Agbowo in the Ibadan North Local Government Area of the ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the duo of Ekpe Anayaoha Okoronkwo and Umeonuoha Onyinye, staff of one of the new generation banks, for allegedly selling newly-minted N500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira) The Enugu Zonal Directorate ...

  Inflation in Nigeria has risen to 34.60 per cent in November 2024, reflecting a 0.72 per cent increase from October’s rate of 33.88 per cent. According to the latest Consumer Product Index report released by the National Bureau of ...

  The Jamaican government has made a move towards removing King Charles as its ceremonial head of state in order to become a republic. On Dec. 10, Jamaica’s Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte tabled the Constitution ...

  A controversial United Kingdom-based pastor, Tobi Adegboyega, has dismissed claims by the leader of the British Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, that Nigeria is a country that drives its citizens to engage in questionable behaviours Badenoch, who had been trolling ...

  The Supreme Court, on Monday, dismissed a suit filed by Chief Ambrose Owuru, the 2019 presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office. In a unanimous decision by a five-member panel ...

  The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has described report that the French military has established or is planning to establish a base in Nigeria as totally false and mischievous The Defence Headquarters said this in a statement by its director of ...

  A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Monday sentenced a 17-year-old student and a trader Daniel Abok, 23, to six months in correctional centre for illegal possession of firearms The Magistrate, Shawomi Bokkos, summarily tried and sentenced the convicts after they ...

  Human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi, has stated that he did not ask anyone to plead with Afe Babalola (SAN), who took him to court for defamation. Farotimi is currently standing trial in Ekiti State following a petition ...

  The Presidency on Monday described the remarks about Nigeria made by the newly elected United Kingdom Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, as a “cock and bull story” President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, ...

  A tragic collision on the Lagos Third Mainland Bridge in the early hours of Monday, December 16, 2024, claimed the life of one person and left five others hospitalized. The accident occurred at Ilubirin, inward Sura, around 6 a.m ...

  Troops from the 1 Brigade of the Nigerian Army have apprehended notorious bandit leader and arms dealer Bako Wurgi, alias Baka NaGarba. Wurgi is suspected to be responsible for the murder of the Emir of Gobir, Isa Mohammad Bawa, ...

  A 16-year-old boy in the US state of New Mexico has been arrested for ‘wiping off’, his entire family. He was taken into custody Sunday after an alleged quadruple homicide of his family members, police and officials said. The ...

  Former Kano State Governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, has called on the Federal Government to go back to the drawing board in governing the masses. Shekarau, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said the recent #EndBadGovernance protest was ...

  The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has issued a six-month ultimatum, from January 29 to July 29, 2025, to Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to reconsider their decision to exit the regional bloc. A statement by Special ...

  Alex Bruesewitz, a political strategist who worked on Donald Trump’s successful 2024 campaign, has collapsed on stage during a speech in New York City The 27-year-old was in the middle of speaking to the 112th annual New York Young ...

  Adeboye recalled the humble and treacherous beginnings of Redemption City, now a spiritual epicentre for millions of worshippers worldwide. “We came to this land 41 years ago when it was the headquarters of highway robbers and pythons. It seemed ...

  The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has stated that Nigeria will not compel Kemi Badenoch, the newly elected leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, to embrace her Nigerian heritage. Erewa, whose role includes overseeing ...

  Yoruba Nation activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene and restrain Vice President Kashim Shettima from further criticising Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the British Conservative Party. Igboho made ...

  A trainee herbalist, Ifagbenga Taiwo, who was arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly sla.ughtering his 41-day-old son in the Keesi area of Adatan, Abeokuta, the state capital, has disclosed that he carried out the act under ...

  Leader of the United Kingdom (UK) Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has disclosed that she has stop believing in God. The controversial politician made this known recently while featuring on a podcast hosted by Free Press editor, Bari Weiss. Kemi ...

  A mayor in Mexico’s central San Luis Potosi state, who was a member of the ruling Morena party, has been shot de.ad. He was shot de.ad on Sunday alongside three other people, local authorities have said. Jesus Eduardo Franco, ...

  The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has signed a new law prohibiting human organ harvesting and 10 years’ imprisonment for offenders. The Human Organ Harvesting and Tissue Transplantation Law was among five new laws rolled out by the state ...