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Nigeria’s commercial city, Lagos State, is losing its appeal among global investors interested in doing business in Africa’s largest economy. According to investment data compiled by Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) South-West states occupied the top five investment destinations in Nigeria between January to June 2021. The data showed that $10.11 billion (against $5.06 billion of H1 2020) was invested in...

The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem el- Zakzaky and wife, Zeenah, will know their fates (today) Wednesday as the Kaduna State High Court rules on their no-case submission presented to Justice Gideon Kurada by his lead counsel, Femi Falana (SAN). At the last sitting of the court held on July 1, 2021, Falana had prayed the...

The Presidency has lambasted the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for insinuating that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has turned the Presidential Villa into its headquarters. Governors on the platform of the PDP had made the allegation during its meeting in Bauchi State on Monday, accusing the APC of “parading coerced PDP members who defected into the ruling party.” However,...

Social networking service, Facebook, has restricted a new account belonging to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This was disclosed by a member of the proscribed organisation, Simon Ekpa, on Tuesday. “Our new Facebook page has been blocked restricted by Facebook,” Ekpa wrote. Recall that in January 2020, the group had alleged that Facebook shut down the page of its leader, Nnamdi...

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday suspended the resumption of schools across the state indefinitely. The governor, who announced this at a stakeholders’ meeting in Kaduna, said the government took the decision due to the ongoing aggressive military operation against bandits in most parts of the state. The meeting was attended by members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers...

As the Sunday Igboho saga continues to drag on, the Benin Republic government has slammed fresh charges against the wanted Yoruba nation agitator. One of Sunday Igboho’s lawers, Ibrahim Salami, told BBC Yoruba that the legal team was expecting extradition charges from the Nigerian government against the activist. He also noted that Igboho was further remanded to allow police to conduct...

Peter Godwin, a former pastor of the Living Faith Church International, popularly known as Winners Chapel, who was sacked for failing to make enough money has been compensated by a South African-based pastor, Isaiah Okechukwu. The founder of Abba Father Ministries, a South African-based church made this known via his Facebook where he revealed that he’d be placing Godwin on...

Nigeria has so far recorded 10 new cases of the Delta COVID-19 variant. The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu disclosed this at the ministerial briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja, The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Delta variant is recognised by the World Health Organisation as a variant of concern, given its increased transmissibility. The variant...

Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, has alleged that by 2023, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will have wrecked Nigeria. He stated this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday. Baba-Ahmed said the party that will take over from APC would have a huge challenge. He attributed the current security crisis to leadership failure,...

Uduak Akpan on Monday pleaded guilty to the murder of Iniubong Umoren, the Akwa Ibom woman who was lured out of her home with a fake job interview. He was arraigned before a State High Court judge in Uyo. Miss Umoren was raped and killed in April in the outskirts of Uyo by Mr Akpan who the police in Akwa Ibom...