NIGERIA'S gross domestic product (GDP) in now expected to grow by a miniscule 1.5% this year as it recovers from the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic after contracting by 3.5% during the course of 2020.
According to revised figures just published by the United Nations (UN) in its latest World Economic Situation and...
NIGERIA'S ongoing security crisis suffered another major setback this weekend after Boko Haram terrorists dressed in military fatigues and posing as army officers abducted a United Nations (UN) member of staff along the Damaturu-Maiduguri road in Borno State.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has been waging a war against the Nigerian...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria currently has about 21.7m unemployed people, 10.5m out-of-school children, about 3m internal refugees and 90m people living below the UN acknowledged poverty of surviving on less than $2 a day. With the economic shutdown precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, things can only get worse during the course of 2021
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GOVERNOR Abdulraham Abdulrazaq of Kwara State has received a United Nations (UN) backed HeforShe award for his cabinet appointments that have been adjudged to have mainstreamed gender inclusion in the state’s political structure.
Elected in 2019, Governor Abdlrazaq made history when he appointed the most women-friendly...
NIGERIAN military commanders have accused the 43 farmers killed by Boko Haram in Zambamari village in Borno State on Saturday of working closely with the terrorists and not revealing their location to the army or providing it with intelligence.
Over the weekend, 43 rice farmers in Borno State had their throats slit by Boko...
AS many as 350m illegal arms are now available across Nigeria according to senate majority leader Senator Yahaya Abdullahi who revealed that about 70% of all the illicit weapons in the West African sub-region are now in the country.
He revealed this yesterday while commenting on the report of the National Consultation on...
