News From Nigeria

Bitcoin was trading at $47,473.6 by 06:42 (10:42 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Friday, up 11.02% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since June 9. The move upwards pushed Bitcoin’s market cap up to $876.9B, ...

Hoodlums have attacked police officers at a checkpoint on the Obasanjo-Itele road, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State and carted away an AK-47 rifle. It was gathered that the incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday when some ...

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, says Nigeria should be competing with developed countries considering its years as an independent entity.Nigeria will mark its 61st Independence Day anniversary on October 1.Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers capital, on Sunday, Wike expressed ...

*No unity among Igbo govs, elites*Explains opposition on BuhariA chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC and former Special Adviser to the Kano state Governor, Salihu Tanko Yakasai has faulted agitations for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in ...

Ranking total annual external debt ratings by country, from highest to lowest. Global Firepower tracks External Debt of each participant in its annual defense review.External Debt is defined as both public and private debt carried as owed to outside parties ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Speech at the General Debate of the 76th Session of United Nations General Assembly Friday, September 24, in New York, USAProtocols:Mr. President,Let me, on behalf of the government and people of Nigeria, congratulate you on your well-deserved ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government is borrowing to build world-class infrastructure and not for recurrent expenditure.The Minister disclosed this on Thursday in his opening address at the town hall meeting organised ...

Old news suddenly gets picked up on social media, sparking an instant crypto price crash. Bitcoin (BTC) suddenly lost $2,000 in an hour on Sept. 24 as what appeared to be old news over a Chinese regulatory ban hit social ...

Prof Banji Akintoye, leader of Yoruba Nation separatists, says the north will continue to rule and dominate Nigeria irrespective of whoever is in power as President. Akintoye said though some Southerners including former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan had ...

A founding member of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, Mr. Ndubisi Igwekala, popularly known as Agu Biafra, has condemned the continuous attack on residents of South-East by those enforcing the Monday sit-at-home order. DAILY POST ...