At the beginning of 2015, then U.S. President Barack Obama invoked the Leahy Laws against Nigeria by allocating a mere $700,000 and blocked the sale of Cobra helicopters to the
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Zainab Ahmed, Nigeria’s minister of finance, budget and national planning, says Nigeria will remove fuel subsidies by 2022 and replace them with a N5000-a-month transportation grant to the poorest Nigerians.
As respected leaders from the southeast mount pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to grant amnesty to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, the one thing they
A mediator has ordered Kevin Spacey to pay nearly $31m (£23.2m) to the studio that made the hit Netflix show, House of Cards, for breach of contract following sexual harassment
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the State Department on Monday advised against travel to Germany and Denmark because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases
It is now exactly three weeks and one day since an explosion was heard at a wellhead belonging to AITEO Eastern Exploration And Production Company in Bassambiri, Nembe Local Government
Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, politician, university professor and former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, is still in the race for the 2023 presidential election, but with a different
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A political slugfest seems to be in the offing between Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his godfather, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as an Osinbajo support group made public and formal
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Wildlife laws in Nigeria are generally regarded as outdated and not stringent enough to really tackle the illegal wildlife trade. Many state wildlife laws were enacted in the 60s and
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been sacked as Manchester United manager after an “embarrassing” 4-1 defeat at Watford. United have confirmed Solskjaer’s assistant Michael Carrick will be placed in temporary charge,
In what seems to be a clear case of double standard, the United States has threatened that Nigeria risks arms embargo for alleged violations of the laws on armed conflicts
Tesla drivers say they have been locked out of their cars after an outage struck the carmaker’s app. Dozens of owners posted on social media about seeing an error message
Contrary to the federal government’s plan to remove subsidy on petrol in the second half of next year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised the Nigerian government to fully
Though, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday declared that an unconditional release of the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, currently standing trial for treason, runs
Following the death of Ms Becky Paul, a Nigerian citizen also known as Itunu Babalola, at a military hospital in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, at the weekend, Nigerians have been demanding
Fashion label Fendi began trending on Twitter after Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, raised the alarm on Thursday that the separatist
A detective in Florida investigating the disappearance of Carole Baskin’s second husband said Thursday that the “Tiger King” star had three times refused requests for interviews, and that the probe
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