The US State Department said the United States has cut the budgets of overseas development and aid programs, with multi-year contracts pared down by 92 percent, or $54 billion.
A spokesman for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Felix Morka, says the party sent notice of its National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting to all members of the party including former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai.
The Osun State Government has refuted claims that it was forcing career officers in local governments to change signatories to council accounts amid the ongoing tussle between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, over local government control.
An Osun based Civil Society, The Osun Masterminds, TOM, has faulted the conduct of the 2025 local government election in the State, saying the rush for its conduct was suspicious and irresponsible at a time when there were clear reasons to hold on, amid the judgment of the Court of Appeal.
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has summoned MultiChoice Nigeria, the operator of DStv and GOtv, to explain its planned subscription price increase, set to take effect on March 1, 2025.
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has filed a lawsuit against the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, for alleged defamation.
Fire gutted some shops in the Ladipo market destroying goods worth millions of Naira.
Denmark’s education minister, Mattias Tesfaye has announced that smartphones will be banned at schools under new legislation proposed in the country.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has launched an Artificial Intelligence training programme to equip 6,000 selected senior secondary school teachers across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The Magistrate Court sitting in Sabo, Yaba, Lagos State, has acquitted popular musician, Abdulazeez Fashola, popularly called Naira Marley, concerning the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba, widely known as Mohbad.