•Both cities rank 1st, 2nd cheapest to live in Africa Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre and Abuja, the nation’s capital, have been listed as the cheapest cities in the world for international workers to live in. According to the 2024 Mercer cost of living survey released recently, naira depreciation has been identified as reason for the lower costs of living …
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Garri, Rice Tecord 50% Price Increase
The price of cassava flakes, popularly known as garri and rice have recorded more than a 50 per cent increase in Enugu metropolis, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The NAN Correspondent, who conducted a market survey on Thursday in Enugu, observed that prices of foodstuffs such as garri and rice have increased by 50 per cent in the …
Read More »As Lawmakers Be Peacemakers, Catholic Priest Tells Edo Legislators
By Eben Enasco Very Reverend Father Charles Omogiate, the Parish Priest of the St. Paul Catholic Church, Airport Road Benin City, Edo State has admonished lawmakers of the 8th Edo State House of Assembly to continue to embrace peace in the delivery of people’s friendly policies. The presiding priest also warned against turning their backs on members of their various …
Read More »Edo Govt To Sanction FG Officers Issuing Illegal Mining Authorization For Borrow Pits Operations
Federal Government mining officers in the State involved in issuing illegal authorization for the operations of borrow pits in the Obagie N’ Evbosa axis, in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the State are to be severely sanctioned. Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, gave the threat on Wednesday during an inspection tour of the borrow pit site at Obagie ‘N …
Read More »I’m Ready To Negotiate With FG, Kanu Tells Court
The detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed his readiness to enter into a negotiation with the Federal Government Kanu took the position on Wednesday, at the resumed proceeding on the seven-count terrorism and treasonable felony charge the FG entered against him before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. His team of …
Read More »JUST IN: Court Rejects Abba Kyari’s Fresh Bail Request
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed a fresh bail application the detained Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, filed to be released on bail, pending the conclusion of his trial. Kyari is facing an eight-count charge bordering on drug trafficking brought against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NLDEA). At today’s sitting, …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Army Charges Nine Soldiers With 9 Counts Of Mutiny, Misconduct For Protesting Against Overcrowded Cells, Poor Feeding In Sokoto
This was contained in a charge statement dated 11th June 2024 and signed by the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 8 Division, Major General GM Mutkut, which was obtained by SaharaReporters on Wednesday. No fewer than nine soldiers detained at the 8 Division of the Nigerian Army provost group detention in Sokoto State, for different offences have been charged with nine …
Read More »FG Uncovers 1,618 Civil Servants With Fake Employment Letters
The Federal Government has revealed that it has in the last one year uncovered 1,618 officers in the Civil Service with illegal and fake employment letters and have been deleted them from the Integration Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS). Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan made this known on Wednesday in Abuja, during a media …
Read More »Nnamdi Kanu Condemns Killing Of Soldiers In Abia, Violence In South-East
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has condemned the killing of soldiers by gunmen in Abia State, Nigeria’s south-east. PREMIUM TIMES reported how masked gunmen, on 30 May, attacked and killed five soldiers in Obikabia Junction in Aba, the commercial hub of the state. The gunmen, who also burnt the soldiers’ patrol truck, were said to be enforcing the …
Read More »Analysis: A NATO-Style Defense Pact And An Image Boost – What Putin Got From North Korean Visit
Vladmir Putin’s first visit to North Korea in nearly a quarter of a century has been intensely scrutinized around the world. Russia knew the West was watching and the optics were not subtle. Putin has been left out of many global gatherings of late, and risks arrest in much of the world thanks to a warrant from the International Criminal Court over his invasion of Ukraine. But on Wednesday, the increasingly isolated …
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