Amid the appreciation of the naira against the dollar on the parallel market, Nigeria is on the radar of foreign investors once again after a seeming slowdown in reforms initially saw them grow cold feet towards West Africa’s biggest economy.
That’s after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is finally allowing a rise in...
Sterling Bank has been caught in a nasty fake currency, precisely Euros, scandal after one of its customers accused the Bank of paying him fake five thousand Euros.
The customer, LegendaryPapi, took to his “X” (formerly Twitter) handle, @Dblinkz, to break the news on Tuesday, October 24.
According to LegendaryPapi, on January...
Lagos State police command says there are strong pieces of evidence linking Naira Marley and Sam Larry with cyberbullying, physical abuse, a threat to life, and assault against late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohba.
Mohbad died last month in a mysterious circumstances. While videos of the Afrobeats singer’s alleging bullying...
The Supreme Court has fixed December 15 for judgment in the appeals filed by the Federal Government and the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The apex court chose the date after the Federal Government lawyer, Tijani Gazali (SAN), and Mike Ozekhome (SAN), the...
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU, GCFR, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 63RD INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY OF NIGERIA ON SUNDAY, 1ST OCTOBER, 2023
It is my unique honour to address you on this day, the 63rd anniversary of our nation’s independence, both as...
Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar has hailed the US Court decision that has compelled Chicago State University to release all academic records of Bola Tinubu saying the truth about the president is coming to light finally.
A...
Mohbad’s father, Mr. Joseph Aloba, has come forward to shed light on the reasons behind the quick burial of his son.
Mohbad, a rising star in the Nigerian music industry, passed away on 12th September 2023, leaving fans and the public shocked and in mourning.
Nigerians had expressed their concerns about...
The Chairman of BUA Group, Abdul-Samad Rabiu, says the company is set to reduce the price of cement in Nigeria.
He disclosed this on Friday while speaking the State House correspondents after meeting with President Bola Tinubu.
Rabiu said to support the efforts of the government to crash the price of...
Cars worth over a million South African rands were razed when a Ugandan man on a mission of revenge against his father allegedly set on fire the workshop of Nigerian nationals involved in automobile dealings in Pretoria, South Africa.
Habib Miller, the spokesman of Nigeria Union South Africa—NUSA, who confirmed...
In November 2022, months before the 2023 polls, Nigeria’s Chief Justice, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, swore in 307 justices to handle the election petitions.
On May 25, 2023, 39 more justices were inaugurated, totalling 346 justices expected to deliver judgments before September 16. Section 285 (6) of the 1999 constitution provides...
Tori Media has stumbled on a document wherein the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) categorically stated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was never a student of Chicago State University (CSU).
This was contained in a letter written by Jennifer S. Dent, the Acting Legal Attache’, Office of Legal Attache’ of the...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a fake couple, Mr. Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi and Mrs. Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum purportedly going for medical treatment in India for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322 kilograms with 100grams of the drug also concealed in the woman’s private part.
The two suspects...
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPoB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has abolished all forms of sit-at-home in the South-East declaring that every Monday in the region be observed as Economic Empowerment Day, EED.
This was disclosed in a statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful,...
As part of its effort to find lasting solution to the perennial sit-at-home in the Southeast, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah and two other traditional rulers in Anambra State, His Majesty, Eze Chukwuemeka Eri and Eze Akajiovo Igbo Nile today visited the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra—IPOB.
The...
After darkness comes the glorious dawn
My fellow citizens,
I want to talk to you about our economy. It is important that you understand the reasons for the policy measures I have taken to combat the serious economic challenges this nation has long faced.
I am not going to talk in difficult...
Popular Nigerian activist, Aisha Yesufu has mocked those who were laughing at supporters of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi while they were campaigning for him.
Yesufu said those who were laughing at Obidients for doing the one million march are now also doing the same because of the...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has disclosed its readiness to commence the automation of the passport application process to eliminate the difficulties Nigerians experience while applying for passports.
This was made known by the Acting Comptroller General of NIS, Caroline Adepoju, who appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise...
On July 3, 2023, Senegal’s president, Macky Sall, in power since 2012, publicly renounced his aspiration for a constitutionally prohibited third term, sparking a synchronised outbreak of ostentatious back-slapping. Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, convener of the impressively-named West African Elders Forum (WAEF), fired off a letter describing Macky Sall as...
Latest economic reality has forced many Nigerians to suspend their travel plans to the United States and Europe following the increase in fares which has tripled as a result of the high exchange rate for ticket pricing.
According to BusinessDay investigations, an economy class ticket from Lagos to London and...
President Bola Tinubu, Sunday said he has rejected the report by the European Unions Electoral Observer Mission on the 2023 general elections, describing the final report as a product of a poorly done desk job that relied heavily on few persons.
The president said that he has many reasons to...
It is now clear that the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), do not longer enjoy the influence they once commanded in the South East as it members have abandoned the movement to join political parties in the region, Tori Media exclusively report.
The separatist movement which has been campaigning for the...
General Overseer of Omega Power Ministries, Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere has finally revealed the reason why he cursed viral security guards, Happie Boys.Recall that some weeks back, Matthew Precious Kelechi and Amakor Johnson aka Happie boys had accused the man of God of using their destiny.
They also alleged that the man of...
Both the Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi have both closed their respective cases without proving how they won the election.
So, the idea of the court declaring any of them the winner of the election is out...
President Julius Maada Bio has won re-election in Sierra Leone’s tense presidential vote, the election commission confirmed, but his main challenger was quick to reject the results.
Chief Electoral Commissioner Mohamed Kenewui Konneh said on Tuesday that Bio, 59, was re-elected with 56.17 percent of Saturday’s vote. His top rival...
Nigerians react to President Bola Tinubu’s 120-car convoy:
The President Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR returned to Lagos Nigeria. Rousing welcome given to the President!Omo na the convoy dey sweet me pass and I know e dey pepper some people for body now.... pic.twitter.com/cb1gsGCebo— 🦅 ℙ𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝕆𝕜𝕖𝕫𝕚𝕖...
A reliable source revealed the real reason President Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu suspended and arrested the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa.
According to the document, the feud dated as far back as 2020 when, at the behest of the suspended EFCC Acting Executive Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim...
A United States-based newspaper, Breitbart News Network has described Nigeria Air as a “fake airline” created by President Muhammadu Buhari as his ‘parting gift’ to Nigerians.
The report entitled “Departing Nigerian President Apparently Created Fake Airline as Final Act in Office“, is reproduced below:
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“According to the Nigerian legislature, departing President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Lagos State Government led by Babajide Sanwo-Olu has disclosed moves to make laws ‘to protect indigenes’, which has been adjudged as targetted against non-indigenes.
According to multiple sources, the Lagos State House of Assembly is poised to pass “an obnoxious indigenous business and property law”.
Mudashiru Obasa, the Speaker of...
Barely five days to the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, President Ahmed Bola Tinubu has finally endorsed the Joint ticket of the Senate Chief Whip and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and a former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari for the President...
''My Fellow Citizens,
I stand before you honoured to assume the sacred mandate you have given me. My love for this nation is abiding. My confidence in its people, unwavering. And my faith in God Almighty, absolute. I know that His hand shall provide the needed moral strength and clarity...
President Bola Tinubu has promised to defend Nigeria from terror and all forms of criminality threatening the peace and stability of the country and the subregion.
Tinubu said this in his inaugural address after he was sworn in as the 16th democratically elected president of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.
He...
The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration Control (NAFDAC) has sealed off an illegal and unapproved herbal mix factory while the suspected owner was arrested in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The illegal factory which is sited around Adedola area of Ibadan was uncovered by NAFDAC operatives at weekend.
The herbal Concoction, according...
Popular football coach, Jose Mourinho could become the highest-paid manager ever after he was reportedly offered a two-year deal worth more than £100million to coach Saudi Arabia.
The Portuguese, 60, joined Roma in 2021 and his current contract runs with the Serie A giants until 2024. But there have disputes...
1.000 PREAMBLE
1.02 The Afenifere held its regular monthly General Meeting today, 28th day of March 2023, at the residence of our Leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo at Isanya Ogbo, Ogun State.
1.03 After intensive deliberations on the state of the Nigerian Federation, the Meeting which was presided over by our Leader...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will have reduced credibility to conduct future elections following its performance in the 2023 general elections.
This is according to a Professor of Political Science and Elections Analyst, Jideofor Adibe, who accused the electoral body of being part of the nation’s problem.
“INEC as presently...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained why its Director of Information Communication Technology (ICT), Chidi Nwafor, was transferred a few months before the 2023 general elections.There's been controversies over what caused the non-upload of presidential election results in real time, with many saying that the commission missed...
The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, Mr Fidet Okhiria, on Thursday gave an account of the brief he got on the accident involving a train and a bus earlier in the day.
The NRC train was involved in an accident with a Lagos State Government staff bus on the...
The following shocking revelation shows how the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) suddenly transferred one Mr. Chidi Nwafor, the Anambra State-born, Japan-trained developer of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines in Nigeria.
According to reports, Mr. Nwafor was demoted and transferred as the ICT Director of the Independent National...
The Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has been declared winner of the presidential election conducted in Anambra state on Saturday, February 25.
According to the results released by INEC, Obi secured 584, 621 votes to beat PDP's Atiku Abubakar who secured 9, 036 votes. Bola Tinubu of the APC...
Two hunters, whose names have not been ascertained, have discovered a bag full of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in a forest in Nnewi, Anambra State four days before Saturday’s general election
It was gathered that the hunters on Tuesday later took the bag from Akamili community, in Nnewi to the...
One Celestine Nwoha has been arrested with no fewer than a hundred thousand fake Naira notes (N100,000) at a community in Ekiti State.
Naija News learnt that men of the Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Amotekun arrested the 50-year-old man.
It was gathered that the man had come into the community...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the 2023 elections would hold without bags of money at the polling units, assuring that this would be witnessed during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly polls.
The Head of Voters Education, INEC Rivers State, Mark Osulo, made this known yesterday at a...
There is currently a large crowd at the office of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Marina, Lagos.
The crowd consists of persons trying to swap old currencies in line with the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.
In his national broadcast on Wednesday, Buhari declared that old N500 and N1000...
The Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Mirella Marin, has ordered former Radio Biafra anchorman, Barrister Simon Ekpa, to recant and withdraw her orders to stop election in South East region or face arrest for international terrorism.
Read the letter personally signed by the Prime Minister of Finland below:
President Muhammadu Buhari has authorised the use of the old N200 as legal tender until April 10, 2023.
The President announced this during a speech to Nigerians on Thursday morning.
See the full text below;
My Dear Compatriots,
I have found it necessary to address you today, on the state of the nation...
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday declined to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to allow Nigerians in diaspora participate in the forthcoming general elections.
The court, in a judgement delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that existing laws in the country didn’t permit INEC to include...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has asked all Igbos who desire to participate in the general elections, to vote for any candidate of their choice.
The group made this known in a statement released by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, on Wednesday, February 15.
Powerful was reacting to a threat issued...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Monday, Feb. 13, that elections will not hold in about 240 polling units across 28 States of the federation.
INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this when he addressed members of the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) at the INEC headquarters in Abuja...
With two weeks left to the Presidential election, All Progressives Congress candidate (APC) Bola Tinubu has all but taken the gloves off in his battle against President Muhammadu Buhari’s men whom he has accused of frustrating his campaign. Will he come out on top?
For the last six months, the...
The Indigenous People of Biafra has suspended its weekly sit-at-home order for the 2023 general elections.
In a statement on Thursday by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, the group said for the purpose of the election, it would not issue any sit-at-home order.
The statement reads: “IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu...
Many churches in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Sunday rejected the old N1,000, N500 and N200 notes as offerings, insisting on the new currencies.
This, it was gathered, constrained many worshippers to give their offerings electronically, following their inability to get the new naira notes which have remained unavailable.
Our...
Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has raised the alarm of attempts by foreign hackers to break into the commission’s database.
INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this in Abuja at the annual National Conference of the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents, NAJUC, with...
A former director in the presidential campaign council of Bola Tinubu, Najatu Muhammad has shared some details about the health conditions of the former Lagos governor.Naija News earlier reports that 67-year-old Kano-based politician dumped the party and resigned from her position as the Director of the Civil Society directorate...
The Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commenced court proceedings to disqualify the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over criminal conviction and sentencing by a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States over trafficking in narcotics.
However, APC PCC...
Gunmen who kidnapped three persons in Fulani settlements near Iwo town, Osun State, have reportedly told families of the victims to pay ransom in dollars.
WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that gunmen kidnapped the victims after invading the community at about 10 pm last Friday.
According to PUNCH, one of the victims,...
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has voted to increase the benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points, from 16.5% to 17.5 percent to tame inflation.
The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this Tuesday, Jan. 24, while reading the communiqué of the end of the...
