Akinwumi Adesina: Nigeria secured $7.6bn investment commitments at 2024 AIF event
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), says Nigeria secured $7.6 billion in investment pledges during the 2024 Africa Investment Forum held in Morocco. Speaking in a post on his X on Saturday, Adesina expressed excitement about the investment…
BREAKING: Sunday Igboho Debunks Viral Death Rumours
Sunday Igboho noted that the false reports originated from the Seyi Tinubu Youth Battalion Facebook page. Sunday Igboho has debunked viral death rumours about him. It was gathered that Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has…
Liberia woos Nigerian investors with 100% profit repatriation, tax exemptions
Liberian government has urged Nigerian investors and entrepreneurs to explore the vast economic opportunities in the West African nation. Jeff Blibo, the chairman of Republic of Liberia National Investment Commission (NIC), made this call on Friday while outlining the country’s…
BREAKING: Blackout As National Grid Collapses
Nigeria’s national power grid has recorded its first major collapse for the first time in 2025 barely ten days into the new year. The collapse has resulted in a nationwide blackout to the despair of Nigerians. This incident marks the…
Boeing and Google each give $1m for Trump inauguration
US aviation giant Boeing has told BBC News it is donating $1m (£812,600) to an inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump. Google and Microsoft have also confirmed they have made similar donations as the firms join a growing list of…
BREAKING: CBN Introduces Investment Bank Accounts For Nigerians In Diaspora
NRNS can use their NRNIA to participate in Nigeria’s Diaspora Bond and other debt instruments issued locally specifically targeted at the Nigerian diaspora or available to the investing public. CBN has introduced investment bank accounts for Nigerians in the diaspora….
Charity Donates Ambulances, Aid to Ukraine.
A Chorley-based charity, International Aid Trust, has dispatched more than 850 tonnes of donated humanitarian aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022. The charity has sent over 30 emergency vehicles, including ambulances and lorries loaded with essential…
AfDB to partner LAMATA in developing Lagos purple rail line, others
The Lagos transport system has received a boost from the African Development Bank (AfDB) with a promise to work with the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) to develop another rail line. AfDB Vice President, Private Sector Infrastructure and Industrialisation,…
The Premier League star who became a golf pro
“It’s like watching David Beckham bend one with his right foot and Roberto Carlos doing it with his other foot.” It is perhaps unsurprising that Peter Odemwingie reaches for a football analogy when explaining his love for a graceful golf…
POPULAR PDP Governor Sacks All Commissioners
De HONOURABLESCelebrate its First Anniversary January 2025 with a super production Nasty Experience with OLOSHO due to be released on Saturday, January 11, 2025. Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP…