Nigeria

The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said the new national carrier, Nigeria Air, will begin operations before May 29, 2023, when President Muhammadu Buhari will hand over power to a new government. The minister stated this at the 10th Aviation Stakeholders Forum in Abuja on Thursday...

By Cristian Munduate  Thirteen-year-old Ibrahim was abducted from school in north-west Nigeria in late 2020. Gun-toting men attacked his school around midnight and abducted him and his classmates. They spent one week in captivity before being rescued. “Ibrahim is not going back to that school, nor any other school soon,” said his traumatized father...

Premium Times] Mr Sanwo-Olu urges business owners and government agencies to accept the old naira notes in accordance with the court ruling...

President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has, in a recent statement, outlined five critical things that he believes Nigeria needs to thrive and succeed.  Tinubu’s statements set the tone of his leadership and provide a roadmap for his administration when he is sworn in as president on the 29th of May...

A former leader of the Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, Worldwide, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, on Saturday, asked the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi respectively not to set Nigeria on fire. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the elder statesman said this in a congratulatory message...

Buhari wished those injured a speedy recovery and assured that the prayers and thoughts of Nigerians are with the many affected by this very bad disaster and its aftershocks...

While a growing number of countries have adopted Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to some degree, the rest either are undecided or rule out the use of digital innovation. A new report says that the Nigerian government might crack open the door for crypto legalization, and a form of CBDC...

Nigeria’s House of Representatives will soon pass into law a bill that legalizes digital assets as capital for investment, Babangida Ibrahim, the local chamber’s Chair for the Committee on Capital Market and Institutions, told local media The PUNCH.Ibrahim said the Investments and Securities Act 2007 (Amendment) Bill has scaled the second reading in the lower