Nigeria

Nigeria, Kenya, 24 Other African Nations Set to Receive Covid Vaccines through COVAX

Nigeria and Kenya are to receive Covid-19 vaccines from the UN-backed Covax programme on Tuesday. Kenya will get 1.25 million doses…

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Analysts Foresee Faster Economic Recovery for Nigeria as Oil Price Hits $60

Analysts on Monday predicted a faster economic recovery for Nigeria as crude oil prices, at $60 per barrel, hit a…

4 years ago

CBN Orders Banks to Shut Accounts of Persons Involved in Cryptocurrency Trading

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has ordered all financial institutions including banks in the country to shut accounts of…

4 years ago

Nigeria’s Crude Oil Exports Hit Three-Year Low, Says Report

West Africa’s oil exports slumped to the lowest level in at least three years last month as infrastructure woes for…

4 years ago

Nigeria Turns to Russia, India for Covid-19 Vaccines

Nigeria has extended its search for Covid-19 vaccines to Russia and India in a bid to get enough supplies to…

4 years ago

Nigeria: Appointment of New Police IG Awaits Buhari’s Return from Daura

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to take a decision on who will be the next Inspector-General of Police (IG) any…

4 years ago

IMF Foresees Improved Capital Spending in Nigeria

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Nigeria’s capital spending will improve this year while anticipating that financing the…

4 years ago

Nigeria Plans $126m Investment to Reposition Commodity Exchange

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an investment of N50 billion (about $126m) in Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) as part of…

4 years ago

Make Nigeria Safer, Buhari Charges New Service Chiefs

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met with the new service chiefs, urging them to concentrate their efforts on helping his…

4 years ago

Nigeria Signs MoU for $2bn Rail Project Linking Kano to Niger Republic

Nigeria’s federal government on Monday signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mota-Engil Group for the construction of $1.959 billion…

4 years ago

Insecurity: Former Ruling APC Chairman Oyegun Says ‘Nigeria is Virtually Under Invasion’

John Odigie Oyegun, a former National Chairman of the Nigerian governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the rising insecurity…

4 years ago

Nigeria Tolerates Religious Violence, US Insists

The United States has shed more light on why it added Nigeria to the religious freedom blacklist, attributing it to…

4 years ago

Again, Sultan of Sokoto Laments Worsening Insecurity in Nigeria, Says Nowhere is Safe

For the second time in a week, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has expressed concern about…

4 years ago

Nigeria: ‘Over 110 Killed’ in Borno Rice Farmer Attack, UN Reveals

United Nations (UN) has revealed that not less than 110 civilians were killed by Boko Haram in the attack on…

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