Author: Akintayo Adams

The UK government decided to alter Prince Harry’s personal protection level when he visits the nation, and he lost a legal challenge to that decision on Wednesday. In February 2020, Harry filed a lawsuit against the government after learning that he would not receive the “same degree” of publicly sponsored protection while he was in Britain. Sir Peter Lane, a High Court judge, made the decision on Wednesday morning. Prince Harry has lost the case, according to the top legal authority. After leaving for America in 2020 with his bride Meghan Markle, the Duke of Sussex was incensed to learn…

According to a recently published study by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the cost of cooking gas, also known as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), rose by 12% from N4,589 in just a single year. The average retail price for refilling a 5 kg cylinder increased by 3.5% on a monthly basis from N4,963 recorded in December 2023 to N5,139 in January 2024, according to the report titled “Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) Price Watch (January 2024)”. Meanwhile, the price of a 5 kg cooking gas went from N4,589 in January 2023. According to a state profile research, Nassarawa had…

Super Eagles player Victor Osimhen gave N2.5 million to a little child who dressed like him and displayed comparable football talents. The football player became interested in the youngster after Tunde Ednut posted a video of him wearing a mask that looked similar to Osimhen’s on his page on Tuesday. Tunde is a well-known Instagram blogger. In response to the video, Osimhen asked Ednut to help find the boy. The youngster was found in Ivory Coast thanks to Ednut’s assistance and that of content creator Eriq Morak. Giving an update, Ednut wrote, “I initially thought this little man was Nigerian.…

Together with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Federal Government successfully assisted the return of a further batch of 147 Nigerian migrants who had become unlawfully stuck in Libya on Tuesday. The Nigerian Mission in Libya’s Charge d’Affaires En Titre, Ambassador Kabiru Musa, made this information public in a statement. According to Musa, the people who were being evacuated took off on Tuesday from Tripoli International Airport on leased flight UZ 189. They were expected to arrive at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, later that evening. Musa said, “Under the continuous evacuation exercise of the Federal Government, which is…

Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, the Alake of Egbaland, has declared that the suffering Nigerians are enduring due to the elimination of gasoline subsidies will soon come to an end. Gbadebo added that while he sympathized with Nigerians for the suffering brought on by the elimination of subsidies and the ensuing rise in the cost of goods and services, he is confident that these sufferings will soon come to an end. At a news conference held at Ake Palace on Monday to celebrate the start of the 37th Lisabi Festival on March 4, the monarch provided the guarantee. The monarch said, “Yes,…

Despite pressure from the West to stop investing in fossil fuels, Nigeria’s Federal Government said on Tuesday to Western countries in America and Europe that it would not stop exploring for fossil resources. Additionally, it said that several American and European nations had been investing in fossil fuels and were requesting that Africa halt further prospecting for crude oil on the continent. Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, made these revelations during a meeting in Abuja. He also said that the Federal Government was making a lot of effort to stop international oil corporations from completely withdrawing…

The $700m Obiafu/Obrikom/Oben gas pipeline, also known as OB3, was started in 2016 and is scheduled to be completed in March 2024, according to a Federal Government announcement made on Tuesday at the ongoing 7th Nigeria International Energy Summit in Abuja. President Bola Tinubu also gave some explanations for why his government had to remove the gasoline subsidy despite its difficulty. During his remarks at the summit, Ekperikpe Ekpo, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Gas, gave a couple of status reports on Nigeria’s gas industry. He described the OB3 gas pipeline as one of the largest gas…

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee raised the benchmark interest rate to a record 22.75% by 400 basis points. This was revealed by CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso on Tuesday in Abuja during the reading of the minutes from the first MPC meeting of the year. Speaking to reporters during the two-day meeting in Abuja, Cardoso stated that the committee had decided to increase the cash reserve ratio from 32.5 percent to 45 percent and modify the asymmetric corridor surrounding the MPR from plus 100 to -300 basis points to +100 to -700. He said, “All 12 members of…

Seyi Makinde, the governor of Oyo State, participated in the nonviolent demonstration on Tuesday alongside the Nigeria Labour Congress’s state chapter. Makinde gave the demonstrators hope that the current suffering would soon come to an end during the demonstration. Beginning from the NLC state secretariat in Agodi, the state capital of Ibadan, the workers staged a protest that continued all the way to the Gate – NTA – Yemetu roundabout, where Governor Makinde joined them. Speaking, the governor said, “I am aware of the hardship in town and the difficulty the people are going through but I will be part…

The Nigerian Central Bank has declared its intention to offer foreign exchange valued at $20,000 to all qualified Bureau De Change operators nationwide. This occurs more than two years after Godwin Emefiele, the suspended former governor of the CBN, halted the selling of foreign currency to BDC operators in that particular forex market segment. This was revealed by the top bank in a fresh circular that was released on Tuesday and bearing the signature of Hassan Mahmud, Director of the Trade and Exchange Department. The goal of the action, according to the circular titled “Sale of Foreign Exchange to Bureau…