The Federal Government on Sunday said it is mobilising its Ministries, Departments and Agencies to “bring down inflation, stabilise the foreign exchange rates and create an enabling environment for business and investment.”
This is as it said, Nigeria’s economy is receiving investment inflows worth $14bn from Indian businesses that pledged to invest in the country at the G20 Summit held last September. While describing the recent killings in Plateau State as “regrettable,” it vowed that its perpetrators must face justice. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed these in a statement he signed on Sunday, titled ‘Amidst challenges, Nigeria will forge ahead.’

The Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has called for a tight security measure in the wake of the withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States.
The military regimes of the three Sahel countries who have been at loggerheads with ECOWAS over sanctions imposed on them, announced their withdrawal forthwith from the regional bloc in a joint statement on Sunday. With the withdrawal, many believe Nigeria’s fight against terrorism could be affected considering the country borders Niger Republic up north.

The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service has asked Nigerian ssocialite and businesswoman, Aisha Achimugu, to remember to file her annual tax returns. The call came amid the outcry that greeted the businesswoman’s lavish 50th birthday celebration. The FCT-IRS gave the reminder in a now-deleted post on X (formerly X) while responding to a post on the seven-day party, which Achimugu hosted in Grenada, a Caribbean Island country. “The FCT-Internal Revenue Service extends our warmest birthday wishes to you! May this special day be filled with joy and blessing. Remember to fulfill your tax obligations by filing your annual tax returns,” the post read.

Football is one of the most popular sports in Nigeria, and it has produced numerous stars who started from scratch to become household names. OGHENOVO EGODO-MICHAEL takes a look at some football stars who defied all odds to attain greatness

Victor Osimhen currently plays as a striker for Serie A club, Napoli, in Italy, as well as the Nigerian national team. Born on December 29, 1998, in Lagos, Nigeria, Osimhen started playing football at a young age, and joined Ultimate Strikers Academy in Nigeria, before moving to Wolfsburg in Germany. Osimhen rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most promising young talents in the world of football. His story is one of perseverance, hard work, and determination in the face of adversity. He grew up in a large family with five siblings, who were raised by his mother after his father passed away when he was just six years old. To survive with his family, the striker hawked sachet water popularly known as ‘pure water’ on the streets. Despite the challenges he faced growing up in the slum, Osimhen showed an early interest in football and never gave up on his dreams.

Operatives of the Nigerian Police Force have arrested a suspected kidnapper believed to be involved in the abduction and murder of Nabeeha, daughter of a Bwari lawyer. Recall that about 19 abductees were taken away by bandits from the Sagwari Estate Layout in the Dutsen-Alhaji area in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory. The kidnappers were demanding N700m ransom for nine of their victims.

The Ogun State Police Command said it had arrested an alleged serial rapist, kidnapper, and murderer, AbdulAzeez Ibrahim, in the Imaweje community of Ijebu-Ode on Sunday.
The command spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, who spoke to PUNCH Online, said Ibrahim was arrested at about 2:30 am on Sunday. The command said the suspect was also a leader and gunrunner for the notorious Neo-Black Axe Movement, otherwise known as the Aye Confraternity.

The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested no fewer than 52 commercial tricycle operators popularly known as Yan Adaidaita Sahu over alleged immoral haircuts, selling illegal drugs and substances and mixing with females in their vehicles. The tricycle riders were apprehended by operatives of the Hisbah command in different parts of the Kano metropolis. The Hisbah command had recently launched an exercise tagged “Operation Kau da Badala,” (Operation Fight against Immorality) which it said would sanitise Kano State from immoral activities such as prostitution, drug abuse, and the sale and consumption of alcohol, among others.

The Nigeria Customs Service, Tincan Island Command, said it intercepted cocaine, arms and ammunition worth N4.3bn. The Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, disclosed this while addressing journalists during the handing over of the seized contraband at the command on Thursday. Adeniyi said that the seized contraband came from South Africa and Canada.

A lawyer and Executive Director, Centre for Social Justice, Eze Onyekpere, speaks to AYOOLA OLASUPO on the legal implication of the allegation against the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, among other issues The issue of restructuring has been a bone of contention that successive governments have not been able to address over time. What advice do you have for the current administration concerning that?

You have a number of people and the bulk of these governments are the people who have been talking about restructuring and made it a mantra and an agenda for many years. So, the expectation is that it is time to walk the talk. The expectation is that they should go ahead and start the restructuring process.

Although President Bola Tinubu and Muhammadu Buhari belong to the same political party and generation, Tinubu’s reversal of several policies from the Buhari years reveals the vast ideological differences between both leaders, STEPHEN ANGBULU writes

In February 2023, days before the general election that brought President Bola Tinubu into office, rioters stormed Automated Teller Machines, burnt bank buildings, and blocked highways as anger spread over the shortage of naira notes.

MUHAMMED LAWAL examines the crisis that pits Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State and the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, against each other and how the moves to resolve this crisis have become a point of discourse

Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, said Shell, Mobil, Chevron and TotalEnergies are not genuine investors in the Nigerian oil sector. Uzodimma stated this while appearing on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. The governor, during the programme alleged that some people he called cabal were trying to sabotage the efforts of President Bola Tinubu aimed at sanitising the nation’s economy.

A middle school teen, Heman Bekele, has emerged as ‘top young scientist’ after inventing a bar of soap that can cure melanoma, a type of skin cancer. The 14-year-old ninth-grade Annandale, Virginia, won the award after beating nine other contestants. He won $25,000 in 3M’s 2023 Young Scientist Challenge, for inventing a bar of soap that could be used to treat skin cancer, USA Today revealed.

THERE is not much hope that President Bola Tinubu will trim his Federal Executive Council anytime soon. Initially comprising 48 members – including the suspended Betta Edu and Simon Lalong, who resigned – the President justified the bloated cabinet in a recent interface with the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Abuja. This is anticlimactic. With Nigeria facing economic headwinds in part because of the colossally high cost of governance, the President should cut his administration’s coat according to its cloth.

Good evening ma, I chatted with you in 2021 about a guy who jilted me and an ugly past too. God has decided to change my shame to fame, my disappointments to testimonies after I left everything in his hand. Mummy, I got married to one of God’s sons last month. He’s God sent. He treats me like a queen in fact, God is great. God is merciful. He gave me a second chance, He answered my secret prayers. Thank you, mummy Temilolu, for your advice back. It indeed pays to stay chaste. I don’t deserve this mercy but God showed it to me.
Mrs. A