Tag: Nigeria

The budget assumes an oil price of $73.96 per barrel, with an exchange rate of 700 naira per dollar, according to Budget Minister Atiku Bagudu.  The plan also allocates 8.25 ...

1,500 women were married off on Friday at a mass wedding organised by a regional government in north-west Nigeria. The Kano state administration said it sponsored the marriage of widows ...

The Gombe State University has said it would confer a honorary doctorate on Abdulhadi Usman, a self-taught engineer known for inventing a radio transmitter, a Vespa-engine helicopter and a telephone (handset) as ...

President Bola Tinubu has called on all Nigerians to join him in efforts to remake Nigeria into a better place for all citizens. The president further called for unity, courage, ...

Now Azuegbulam is an African champion. Last month, Azuegbulam won gold in the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany -- the first Nigerian and the first African to secure the top ...

Fújì is a popular Yoruba musical genre. It arose from the improvisational wéré music, also known as ajísari (meaning "waking up for sari"), a genre of music performed to wake Muslims before dawn during the Ramadan fasting season. Alhaji ...

The biggest economy in Africa, Nigeria has been trying to increase its reserves and stop the decline of its currency, which has fallen to record lows on the black market ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has borrowed U.S.$7.5 billion from U.S. banks JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs by pledging securities as collateral. The loan agreement and lack of transparency ...

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, on Monday, officially confirmed the development in a statement signed by the Chief Veterinary ...

More than 120 million girls are out of school and the world must do more to ensure they can get an education, Nobel laureate and UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai said ...