8 mins ago The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has announced a 150 basis points increase in the benchmark interest rate, raising it from 24.75% to 26.25%. Following a two-day meeting, the bank’s Monetary Policy Committee…
As the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) commences its scheduled Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on Monday, analysts have made predictions about the committee’s potential decisions. Some economic experts anticipate an increase in the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to curb…
13 mins ago Real Madrid’s German midfielder Tony Kroos announced on Tuesday he will retire from all football after Euro 2024. “My career as an active footballer will end this summer after the Euro championship,” 34-year-old Kroos, who won the…
In all three, the aircraft crash landed and burst into fire. But the thing about death is that even “in the midst of death, there is life, and that should shock us” – a reversal of the original saying by…
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant described as “despicable” Tuesday a push by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor for warrants to arrest him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes in Gaza. “The attempt made by the ICC prosecutor,…
The Nigerian Army 6 brigade in Taraba State says soldiers attached to Sector 3 Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) have arrested two suspected kidnappers and rejected a N2 million bribe offered by the suspects. The brigade’s acting Public Relations Officer, Oni…
Nigeria’s cinema has generated a revenue of N2.25 billion from tickets sold in the first quarter of 2024. Filmone Entertainment, an independent film distribution and production company, revealed this in its Nigerian Box Office Year Book for 2023, released on…
Last Tuesday, President Bola Tinubu’s aide, Bayo Onanuga, shared 20 projects and policies adopted by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in the meetings held last Monday and Tuesday. However, he failed to provide specific details about some of the projects…
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has expressed concern over what he described as the fiscal indiscipline of the government. Obi said it was unimaginable that the government budgeted N6 billion and N4 billion for the National…
Caroline Danjuma has debunked singer Oritsefemi’s claim of being married to Tagbo Umeike, singer Davido’s friend who died in 2017. Caroline married the younger brother of former Minister of Defence Theophilus Danjuma in 2007. They had three children before settling…