Nigeria is optimistic about ensuring unhindered food access in Yobe State through its fertiliser partnership with Morocco, aimed at strengthening food security in the Northeast region. A delegation from the African Network Centre, led by the Secretary to the State Government, Baba Malam Wali, is currently in Morocco to explore a partnership with OCP/Jorf Lasfar,…
Adelyn McCracken’s father, Master Sergeant Justin McCracken, is stationed at Osan Air Base in South Korea — half a world away. It’s tough on the Clyde Elementary School second-grader, who sometimes copes by hugging a small pillow printed with her father’s picture when she misses him on a school day. But Adelyn got the chance to hug her dad for real last…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Olayemi Cardoso, to use his “leadership position to immediately withdraw the patently unlawful, unfair, unreasonable and unjust increase in Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transaction fees.” SERAP urged him to “ensure that the exercise of CBN statutory powers and…
American radio personality and finance expert, Dave Ramsey, has said that there is nothing like “my money” and “your money” in marriage. The author, who stated this in a Facebook post on Valentine’s Day, said a marriage unites two people so when a couple maintains separate bank accounts it can lead to a…
Proscribed Igbo separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has accused Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah of allegedly paying some leaders of Eha-Amufu community in Isi Uzo Local Government Area of the state the sum of N30 billion for them to release their communal lands for Fulani settlement. In a statement on Saturday by…
Three plainclothes police officers from the Red House Police Station in Iju-Ishaga, Lagos, assaulted Nigerian musician Damilola Ogunsanya with an iron baseball bat, resulting in a fractured kneecap. SaharaReporters learnt the officers later proposed a compensation of N200,000, despite Ogunsanya incurring N5 million in surgery. Damilola told SaharaReporters on Saturday that on December 17, 2024,…
