Former US President Donald Trump has slammed Joe Biden for swapping US women’s NBA star Brittney Griner for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in a deal brokered by Saudi Arabia. Brittney was freed on Thursday, Dec. 8, after spending nearly a year in Russian captivity as part of a prisoner swap deal with the Biden…
Nigeria’s export declined by 19.8 per cent to N5.93 trillion in the third quarter of 2022, from N7.4 trillion in the prior quarter.As a result of the decline in the country’s export sector, the total foreign trade recorded a 10 per cent decline to N11.59 trillion in Q3’22 from N12.84 trillion in Q2’22. According to…
Brand Spur Nigeria reports that Nigeria has recorded N16 trillion from crude oil sales between January and September 2022. The oil sales recorded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited is captured in the foreign trade report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Despite the huge oil sales, Godwin Emefiele, governor of CBN,…
The Senate has threatened that it will not allocate funds to over 100 Federal Government’s Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) in the 2023 budget for not honouring the invitations of its Committee on Public Accounts investigating the funds released to them from the Service Wide Vote (SWV) from 2017 to 2021. The releases from the…
DBANJ ENCOURAGES ICPC TO DO ITS INVESTIGATION AND CAUTIONS AGAINST MEDIA TRIAL The media is awash with reports of Oladapo Oyebanjo (Dbanj) in ICPC custody with regards to unestablished allegations of fraud for which it has become crucial to make the following statement for the purpose of clarity and to set public records straight. 1….
The police in Lagos have arrested a 49-year-old man identified as Lawrence Itape for allegedly stabbing his wife, Rebecca Itape, 47, to death at their home in Seaside estate, Badore in Ajah on Monday, December 5. Preliminary investigations showed that the couple had a disagreement over water. The argument degenerated into a fight and in…
A federal High Court sitting in Abuja has voided the primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State, just a few months before the general election. Recall that the Party, PDP, in its first primary election conducted in May 28th and 29th 2022, elected Mr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii as its gubernatorial candidate in Ebonyi…
The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has budgeted N500 million for the establishment of a new federal medical centre in Daura, Katsina State, Mr Buhari’s hometown. This is contained in the N20.5 trillion 2023 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by the President earlier in October.When completed, the hospital will rank Katsina as the only…
A 29-year-old Kenyan woman identified as Florence Kaari, was allegedly killed by her husband for coming home late. The woman died while receiving treatment in the hospital after her husband hit her with a blunt object on the head on Sunday night, December 4, 2022 in Githurai 45. The matter was reported by Ruth Kaimenyi,…
The United Kingdom (UK) government says it has no interest in who will become the next president of Nigeria during the forthcoming general elections.This was disclosed on Wednesday by Catriona Liang, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, following a meeting, held at a closed door, with the National Working Committee, NWC, of the All Progressives…