When Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visited the White House on Monday, Trump used the opportunity to boast about the administration’s sale of $600 million of deadly military aircraft to Nigeria last year. But he insisted on calling the aircraft helicopters, instead of acknowledging what they actually are: attack aircraft. “We also have a very big […]
In a bid to curb the transmission of preventable diseases, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa is to partner the World Health Organisation (WHO) to take hand washing campaigns across Nigeria and Africa. Mrs Toyin Saraki, Founder-President of the Foundation disclosed this when she led a team on a courtesy visit the Abuja office of the WHO […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the bilateral currency swap agreement with the Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) will help the liquidity issues faced by Nigerian traders and Chinese manufacturers. The apex bank said with the deal, Chinese businessman will have sufficient naira to purchase raw materials from Nigeria and Nigerian importers will not […]
After Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearing, the issue of Cambridge Analytica is still being addressed. During Facebook’s F8 event that took place on May 1st, the social network shared its plans to better protect their users’ data. They will audit and restrict access to each and every app that request information from the platform. This is […]
Canada has officials working with U.S. visa officers in Lagos, Nigeria, as Ottawa leans on its neighbour to stop issuing so many visas to Nigerians who then make refugee claims in Canada. The Canadian government is trying to stem the flow of asylum seekers illegally walking across the U.S. border even as their ranks grow: […]
West Africa’s infamous internet scammers have evolved, dropping their impersonations of online love interests, princes and U.S. soldiers in favour of hijacking corporate emails, costing businesses hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It is a much more lucrative venture that works by gaining access to corporate email login details or passing off almost-identical addresses […]
A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with a distended belly and jowly sneer, is to go on display at a Haunted Museum after a paranormal investigator bought it at auction. Julien’s Auctions announced Wednesday it sold the artwork — believed to be the last of the controversial statues not vandalized or destroyed — for […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO), says an estimated seven million people worldwide die every year from outdoor and household air pollution. The organisation revealed on its Twitter handle @WHO on Thursday. It said that ambient air pollution alone caused 4.2 million deaths in 2016, while household air pollution from cooking with polluting fuels and technologies […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Adamawa Command, says it has commenced intensive surveillance on major routes along the Nigeria-Cameroon border. NDLEA said the move was sequel to the Federal Government ban on the production and importation of codeine into the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Federal Ministry of […]
Nigeria’s central bank said on Thursday it has signed a $2.5 billion currency swap agreement with the People’s Bank of China to facilitate trade between the two countries and enhance foreign reserve management. Nigeria suffered a chronic dollar shortage after oil prices plunged mid-2014, which tipped its economy into a recession and hammered its currency […]