The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced that its application portal for the 2024/2025 academic session will close on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The closure marks the end of the second full cycle of the government-backed, interest-free loan scheme designed to provide financial support to Nigerian students in tertiary institutions. In a statement on […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two major drug kingpins in Lagos and seized large quantities of narcotics prepared for export to Europe and other destinations. The agency’s Special Operations Unit (SOU) apprehended Victor Nwosa and Felix Chika Obiegbu following weeks of intelligence gathering and surveillance on their networks. Nwosa, […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja has barred Professor of political economy, Pat Utomi, and his associates from going ahead with their plan to set up a shadow government in Nigeria. Delivering judgment in a suit instituted by the Department of State Services on Monday, Justice James Omotosho held that the creation of a shadow […]
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has assured Nigerians in the Diaspora of robust engagement in the policies and programmes of the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Mr Shettima said this was with a view to positioning Nigeria in its rightful place among the comity of nations. He spoke during a meeting with members of the Nigerian community […]
China will build Africa’s first insulin production plant in Nigeria, Chinese state media reported, in a landmark deal that would allow the west African nation to enter the booming insulin industry as diabetes rates surge across the continent. The initiative also marks a deepening of China-Nigeria ties. Beijing’s ambassador to Nigeria Yu Dunhai said Chinese […]
Thirteen people have been confirmed dead, while two others remain missing, following the collapse of a mining pit in Kadauri village, Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development, confirmed the incident on Sunday, stating that federal mines officers had been deployed to coordinate ongoing rescue […]
The Economic Community of West African States has restarted efforts to finalise its long-pending Regional Blue Economy Strategy, beginning with a high-level consultative workshop held on Monday in Abuja. The workshop gathered key representatives from ECOWAS member states, regional economic bodies, and continental institutions to review and validate the draft strategy, which has been inactive […]
British pharmaceutical giant GSK on Monday said longtime chief executive Emma Walmsley will be replaced by its chief commercial officer in January, as the company navigates US tariffs on the sector. Luke Miels will take over on January 1 from Walmsley, who will have been at the helm for almost nine years, GSK said in […]
Nigeria’s foremost entrepreneur, Femi Otedola, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to release the full report by the Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede panel carried out under the Goodluck Jonathan administration on the controversial fuel subsidy regime. In a statement yesterday, Otedola insisted that Nigerians deserve to know the truth about those who looted public funds under the […]
A Chinese court sentenced to death on Monday 16 members of a family-run criminal gang that established deadly scam centres in Myanmar’s Kokang region on the border with China, among other crimes. Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar’s lawless borderlands, staffed by foreigners — many of them Chinese — who say they were trafficked and […]
