Category: News
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The Central Bank of Nigeria’s governor expects headline inflation to fall to 21.4 per cent in 2024. The apex bank’s governor disclosed this during his keynote speech at the launching of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group macroeconomic outlook report for 2024. He said, “Inflationary pressures are expected to decline in 2024 due to the CBN’s…
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Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have killed two persons suspected to be husband and wife and dumped their corpses in a car boot of their vehicle, a Toyota Camry with the registration number: EE-621-EU. The two fresh blood-dripping corpses were seen by passers-by at a lonely place along the Tempo Junction, Umunya axis of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has granted an emergency approval for procurement of digital tracking devices to aid the fight against kidnapping and other violent crimes in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. FCT Minister, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, made this disclosure in Abuja on Monday, January 22, 2024 during his first monthly media chat for the…
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The market capitalisation of Dangote Cement hit N10tn on Monday, emerging as the first company to achieve that milestone on the Nigerian Exchange. This is as billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, who called the founder of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, his “bestie”, had made a significant acquisition of Dangote Cement shares. The firm closed trading…
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President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians to join hands to fix the country and have a change of mindset towards money. Tinubu spoke on Monday when he received a delegation of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) led by its president Archbishop Daniel Okoh at the State House in Abuja, asking the body to help…
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Detectives in Kenya have arrested two Nigerians, William Opia and Johnbull Asbor, for allegedly murdering and dismembering Rita Waeni, a 20-year-old student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in an apartment. According to Kenya’s The Nation Media Group on its website on Monday, the discovery of Waeni’s head, covered in a sack and…
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The Rivers State Police Command has said three of its officers who abducted and extorted the sum of $3,000 from two travellers will face an orderly room trial and query respectively. The spokesperson for the command, Grace Iringe-Koko, who disclosed this while parading the suspects before newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday, said the action…
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The reigning Miss Tourism, Ebere Joy on Monday survived a ghastly road accident in Abuja the nation’s capital AbujaPress reports. The crash happened at about 2:47pm along Umar Musa Yar’Adua Expressway way, popularly known as Airport Road while on her way to Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport to pick her sister. Joy, the Tourism Ambassador of the…
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An Employee of a microfinance bank at Kemta Oloko, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Mr. Olumide Openaike, has been declared missing by his family. A WhatsApp message had announced that the banker and father of one said to be a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Strong Tower Zonal, had gone missing. The…
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Ken Erics Visits Mr Ibu As He Returns Home After Months Of Being Hospitalized