Umahi Confirms Availability Of ₦431B To Pay Road Contractors
Nigeria’s Minister of works, Dave Umahi has confirmed that the ministry currently has about ₦431 billion to pay contractors to focus on most of the dualised roads across the country. In a statement issued by the director of press and public relations unit, Blessing Lere-Adams, he said the minister made the disclosure at a meeting […]
How Trump’s Last-Minute Effort Could Disrupt New York Trial
A trial scheduled for next month in the New York attorney general’s business fraud lawsuit against former president, Donald Trump and his company could be jeopardised by a last-minute legal challenge his lawyers, Africa Today News, New York has gathered. The non-jury trial, which was set to begin on October 2, was potentially postponed on […]
Nigerians Shouldn’t Be Poor, They’re Are Not Lazy – Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday reiterated his commitment to working assiduously to make Nigeria better, describing his countrymen as hardworking people while also insisting that the nation has no reason to be poor. Tinubu made this known when he received a high-powered 62-man delegation, comprising leaders from both the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) and […]
13,000 Workers Embark On Strike Over Poor Wages In Detroit
No fewer than 13,000 U.S. auto workers discontinued making vehicles and went on strike on Friday morning after their leaders couldn’t find a middle ground between union demands in contract talks and what Detroit’s three automakers are willing to pay. In Wentzville, Missouri, a Ford factory in Wayne, Michigan, close to Detroit, and a Stellantis […]
How Police Intercepted 7,500 Live Cartridges In Kebbi
The Police Command in Kebbi State have opened up on how it intercepted two vehicles conveying 7,500 live cartridges and parcels of Indian Hemp worth over ₦600 million. One of the trucks was coming from Ghana through Togo and Benin Republic to Nigeria, while the second vehicle took off from Benin Republic to Nigeria, beating […]
Why Supreme Court Will Correct Tribunal Verdict – PDP BoT
The Board of Trustees of Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it believes the party will get justice in the Supreme Court over the February presidential election which saw the umpire declaring Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner. Africa Today News, New York […]
How Putin, Kim Gifted Each Other Guns At Meeting
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong Un gifted each other rifles when they met at a space centre in Russia week, the Kremlin has confirmed. This was even as it revealed that the Russian leader also presented his counterpart from Pyongyang with a glove from a cosmonaut’s space […]
‘You’re Double Faced’– LP Blasts Soyinka Over Attack On Obi
Nigeria’s opposition party, the Labour Party has come down heavily Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, over his recent utterances against the party’s presidential candidate in the last election, Peter Obi. Africa Today News, New York recalls that the literary giant had in an interview on Wednesday wondered why Mr. Obi was claiming with every alacrity […]
INEC Gears Up With 40,000 Staffs For November Polls
Africa Today News, New York, has learned through reliable sources that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will enlist the services of 40,000 Ad hoc staff members for the governorship elections taking place on November 11, 2023, in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi states. The tenure of the sitting Governor of Imo State is scheduled to […]
Outrage As National Power Grid Fails Twice Within 6 Hours
For the second time in less than six hours, the national grid has failed with a double collapse, plunging both households and businesses into darkness on Thursday. Power generation plummeted by a staggering 93.5% to just 273MW. The most recent breakdown occurred just a fortnight after the contentious commemoration of 400 days of uninterrupted and […]
Nigeria’s Debt Soars by 75% In Three Months, Reaches ₦87tn
Nigeria’s Debt Management Office has disclosed that the nation’s overall public debt stood at ₦87.38tn by the end of the second quarter in 2023. The figure has surged by 75.29 percent, translating to N37.53tn, in contrast to the ₦49.85tn registered at the end of March 2023. The DMO, in its Thursday report, clarified that the […]
Nigeria Set To Fortify Ties With Cuba – Shettima
With the G77+China Leaders’ Summit just around the corner, Vice President Kashim Shettima said that the Bola Tinubu administration’s aspiration is to further solidify the existing bilateral relations with the Republic of Cuba. ‘Our relationship has been very excellent over the years and this relation needs to be strengthened and upscaled,’ Shettima told his Cuban […]