Brito Sporting Club of Portugal, a football club founded 1956, has signed an official contract with Yaqub Usman-Malah, a United Kingdom-based highly-talented, young Nigeria-born footballer. The official unveiling of the young and promising footballer took place Saturday, January 4, 2025. Yaqub, born in Nigeria in 2006, is a budding Nigerian […]
The Nigerian passport has been ranked 94th out of 199 countries in the latest Henley Passport Index, highlighting the limited global travel options available to Nigerian citizens. The ranking, released yesterday, shows that Nigerian passport holders can access only 46 destinations without a visa. The Henley Passport Index ranks passports […]
Dr. Bashir Gwandu, a renowned telecommunications expert, has urged African countries to collaborate and adopt a unified stance at the upcoming World Radiocommunications Conference 2027 (WRC-27) to secure the 600MHz band for mobile spectrum allocation. Speaking at the 9th Sub-Sahara Spectrum Management Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, Gwandu emphasized the […]
Ebonyi State Governor Nwifuru speaks: I am the only Governor in Nigeria presently that all his children are schooling in the country and not even beyond Southeast! 3 in Ebonyi and 2 in Enugu. Their biggest school fees is #35, 000 and when I told them in the Nigeria Governor’s […]
The Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) has recorded a remarkable 275% increase in revenue for 2024, according to Postmaster General Tola Odeyemi. Speaking on the agency’s achievements, Odeyemi highlighted that this growth was driven by strategic reforms focused on improving service quality and plugging revenue leakages. Among the key initiatives was […]
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has dissolved the state executive council, including all commissioners, and terminated the appointment of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Barrister Muhammad Aliyu-Ubamdoma. The announcement was made during an emergency executive meeting held at the Government House in Lafia on Friday, shortly after Vice […]
NTUNG NGELA LANDON Ntung Ngela Landon, a 23-year-old technology innovator from Cameroon, is using technology to drive change in her community. She designed an automatic irrigation system prototype, benefiting over 100 large-scale farmers by improving crop growth, farm surveys, and reducing labor. The project also engaged 20 engineering students in […]
Mafab Communications, a Nigerian telecommunications company that acquired a 5G license in 2021, is set to commence its 5G services by the end of the first quarter of 2025. The initial rollout will feature 102 operational sites in Kano and Abuja, requiring subscribers to purchase routers to access the network. […]
Renowned lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Prof. Mike Ozekhome, has called on Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, to prioritize the rehabilitation of public secondary schools across the state. Ozekhome made this appeal during the commissioning of a 10-room corpers’ lodge at St. Peter Grammar School, Agenebode, facilitated by […]
The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, has emphasized the transformative potential of technology in fostering economic growth and addressing societal challenges. Speaking at the FutureMap Academy Workshop in Hadejia, Jigawa State, Kashifu called on policymakers to harness the unique resources and talents within […]