The World Bank has approved Nigeria’s loan request of $1.5 billion, as Africa’s most populous nation and largest economy battles a coronavirus-induced recession. In a statement issued on Tuesday, December 15, the Bretton Woods institution said the loan facility is a five-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) that will last till 2024. …

The Nigerian Army, yesterday, revealed that 26 personnel had tested positive for COVID-19 after the death of the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 6 Division, Port Harcourt, Major-General Johnson Irefin. Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Sagir Musa, who made the revelation in a statement in Abuja, also said that a total …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S. presidential election, after Biden won the state-by-state Electoral College vote that officially determines the U.S. presidency, the Kremlin said. The Kremlin had said it would wait for the official results of the election before commenting …

Young Nigerian man murdered by a 45 year old Afghanistan refugee in Lisbon, Portugal A young Nigerian man identified as Henry Onyekachi Awom was reportedly murdered by a 45 year old Afghanistan refugee in circtance that portrays religious intolerance as the attack was premeditated and unprovoked in Lisbon, Portugal. This …

Nigerian singer Yakub Jubril, better known as YQ, got married on Sunday 13th December 2020, Newsextra24 reports. The Sandalili singer shared photos from his wedding on Instagram and wrote: “Mr & Mrs Jubril. 12/13/20 SHAIIZI”

The newly built community on the water houses some of the nation’s wealthiest people, and expats, too . Banana Island, which is Nigeria’s answer to Paris’s Seventh Arrondissement, San Diego’s La Jolla, New York City’s Tribeca and Tokyo’s Shibuya and Roppongi, is a small man-made island in the Ikoyi neighborhood …

The Speaker of Kano State House of Assembly, Abdulaziz Gafasa, and two other principal officers of the legislative body have resigned from their positions. Mr Gafasa conveyed his decision through a letter to the Clerk of the House, dated December 14. The speaker did not state the reason for his …

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has applauded Engineer Ahmed Aliyu Wadada-led PAN Nigeria Limited’s continued strive to improve and expand its products. The speaker gave the commendation while launching some of the newest products of PAN Nigeria Limited. The new vehicles to be produced in its Kaduna …

MALAWIAN BAPTIST PASTOR GODWIN MAERE S_EXUAL PICTURES WITH FEMALE CCAP REVEREND LEAKS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_Bhmd5vr0 There was chaos after a Malawian pastor of the Baptist church , Godwin Maere, who is having an affair outside his marriage, had embarrassing pictures of himself with an unidentified female CCAP Reverend from Mzimba leaked. The …

Shehu Sani, former Kaduna lawmaker, has warned the federal government to step up its effort in rescuing kidnapped students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State. Sani said this following the statement by Boko Haram leader, Shekau claiming responsibility for the abduction of the school boys The former lawmaker …